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Men Quotes by Mercy Otis Warren
- Our situation is truly delicate & critical. On the one hand we are in need of a strong federal government founded on principles that will…
- But truth is most likely to be exhibited by the general sense of contemporaries, when the feelings of the heart can be expressed without suffering…
- It may be a mistake, that man, in a state of nature, is more disposed to cruelty than courtesy
- On the evening of December 25, General Washington in a most severe season crossed the Delaware with a part of his army, then reduced to…
- I am more and more convinced, of the propensity in human nature to tyranize over their fellow men....
- But in the hero ne'er forget the man.
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