"A great empire and little minds go ill…" — Edmund Burke

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• Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write. — John Adams
• The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government… — John Quincy Adams
• The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is… — Samuel Adams
• Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to… — Samuel Adams
• James Watt patented his steam engine on the eve of the American Revolution, consummating a relationship between coal and the… — Jeremy Rifkin
• On June 22, 2008, at the age of 71, an American revolutionary died. He was a bona fide genius, an… — Corey Taylor
• My fellow citizens, our nation is poised for greatness. We must do what we know is right, and do it… — Ronald Reagan
• What a glorious morning this is! — Samuel Adams
• The times that tried men's souls are over-and the greatest and completest revolution the world ever knew, gloriously and happily… — Thomas Paine
• Our unalterable resolution would be to be free. They have attempted to subdue us by force, but God be praised!… — Samuel Adams
• The Sun never shined on a cause of greater worth. — Thomas Paine
• Now is the seedtime of continental union, faith and honor. The least fracture now, will be like a name engraved… — Thomas Paine

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