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Make no mistake; the American Revolution was not fought to obtain freedom, but to preserve the liberties that Americans already had as colonials. Independence was…

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The freedmen were not really free in 1865, nor are most of their descendants really free in 1965. Slavery was but one…
Dream dreams and write them aye, but live them first.
Make no mistake; the American Revolution was not fought to obtain freedom, but to preserve the liberties that Americans already had as…
America was discovered accidentally by a great seaman who was looking for something else; when discovered it was not wanted; and most…
The cruel policy initiated by Columbus and pursued by his successors resulted in complete genocide.
If the European discovery had been delayed for a century or two, it is possible that the Aztec in Mexico or the…
If the American Revolution had produced nothing but the Declaration of Independence, it would have been worth while. . . . The…
But sea power has never led to despotism. The nations that have enjoyed sea power even for a brief period-Athens, Scandinavia, the…
Intellectual honesty is the quality that the public in free countries always has expected of historians; much more than that it does…
The same contingencies of time and space that force a statesman or soldier to make decisions, impel the historian, though with less…
Franklin may . . . be considered one of the founding fathers of American democracy, since no democratic government can last long…
A tough but nervous, tenacious but restless race [the Yankees]; materially ambitious, yet prone to introspection, and subject to waves of religious…

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Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty,… — Frederic Bastiat
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Simple morality dictates that unless and until someone can prove the unborn human is not alive, we must give it the benefit… — Ronald Reagan
The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. — Epictetus
I believe in the supreme worth of the individual and in his right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. — John D. Rockefeller
I have the right to life, liberty and chicken wings. — Mindy Kaling
In a sense we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
In short, it is the greatest absurdity to suppose it in the power of one, or any number of men, at the… — Samuel Adams
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain… — Thomas Jefferson
The evidence of [the] natural right [of expatriation], like that of our right to life, liberty, the use of our faculties, the… — Thomas Jefferson
I sincerely pray that all the members of the human family may, in the time prescribed by the Father of us all,… — Thomas Jefferson

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