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Remember, Sir, that [England] began the slave trade! — Benjamin Franklin
That slow poison [slavery] is daily contaminating the minds and morals of our people. Every gentlemen here is born a petty tyrant, practiced in acts… — George Mason
The day is not distant when we must bear and adopt [the abolition of slavery], or worse will follow. — Thomas Jefferson
Never yet could I find that a black had uttered a thought above the level of plain narration; never saw even an elemental trait of… — Thomas Jefferson
A half-starved limping government, always moving upon crutches and tottering at every step... — George Washington
The two principles on which our conduct towards the Indians should be founded are justice and fear. After the injuries we have done them, they… — Thomas Jefferson
Why can I not fight for my country too? — Deborah Sampson
The States separately have very inadequate ideas of the present danger. Party disputes and personal quarrels are the great business of the day, whilst the… — George Washington
Our countrymen have all the folly of the ass and all the passiveness of the sheep. — Alexander Hamilton
Congress is responsible for everything and unable to do anything, hated by the public creditors, insulted by the soldiers and unsupported by the citizens. — Benjamin Hawkins
A disunited people till the end of time, suspicious and distrustful of each other, [the Americans] will be divided and subdivided into little commonwealths... with… — Josiah Tucker
I fear we may live to see another revolution. — John Marshall
Even respectable characters speak of a monarchical form of government without horror. — George Washington
The people are turbulent and changing; they seldom judge right or make good decision. — Alexander Hamilton
It would be a foetus of monarchy! — Edmund Randolph
Away with your president! We shall have a king... the army will salute him as monarch; your militia will leave you and assist in making… — Patrick Henry
On the subject of the history of the American Revolution, you ask who shall write it? Who can write it? And who will ever be… — Thomas Jefferson
All men are created equal and have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. — Thomas Jefferson
The rebels did more in one night than my whole army would have done in one month. — Unknown Author
I think it's time we ask ourselves if we still know the freedoms that were intended for us by the Founding Fathers... Whether we believe… — Ronald Reagan
Faced by the actual practice of freedom, the French and American revolutions would be forced to stand by their words. — William S. Burroughs
The progress of the American Revolution has been so rapid and such the alteration of manners, the blending of characters, and the new train of… — Mercy Otis Warren
If the American Revolution had produced nothing but the Declaration of Independence, it would have been worthwhile. — Samuel Eliot Morison
What I want to accomplish artistically amounts to nothing more than fulfilling the promise of the American Revolution. — L. Neil Smith
So far as the economic condition of society and the general mode of living and thinking were concerned, I might claim to have lived in… — Simon Newcomb

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