It is necessary for every American, with becoming energy to endeavor to stop the dissemination of principles evidently destructive of the cause for which they have bled. It must be the combined virtue of the rulers and of the people… — Mercy Otis Warren Copy Share Image
I have my fears. Yet, notwithstanding the complicated difficulties that rise before us, there is no receding; and I should blush if in any instance the weak passions of my sex should damp the fortitude, the patriotism, and the manly… — Mercy Otis Warren Copy Share Image
The British were indeed very far superior to the Americans in every respect necessary to military operations, except the revivified courage and resolution, the… — Mercy Otis Warren Copy Share Image
The love of domination and an uncontrolled lust of arbitrary power have prevailed among all nations and perhaps in proportion to the degrees of… — Mercy Otis Warren Copy Share Image
It may be a mistake, that man, in a state of nature, is more disposed to cruelty than courtesy — Mercy Otis Warren Copy Share Image
The origin of all power is in the people, and they have an incontestable right to check the creatures of their own creation. — Mercy Otis Warren Copy Share Image
The rights of the individual should be the primary object of all governments. — Mercy Otis Warren Copy Share Image
The honorable William Penn, late governor of Pennsylvania, was chosen agent to the Court of Britain, and directed to deliver the petition to the… — Mercy Otis Warren Copy Share Image
The United States form a young republic, a confederacy which ought ever to be cemented by a union of interests and affection, under the… — Mercy Otis Warren Copy Share Image
A superfluity of wealth, and a train of domestic slaves, naturally banish a sense of general liberty, and nourish the seeds of that kind… — Mercy Otis Warren Copy Share Image