The British were indeed very far superior to the Americans in every respect necessary to military operations, except the revivified courage and resolution, the result of sudden success after despair. — 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
