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“Every town-gate and village taxing-house had its band of citizen-patriots, with their national muskets in a most explosive state of readiness, who stopped all…

— Charles Dickens

“The best account of events in Pennsylvania leading up to the Declaration of Independence is found in David Freeman Hawke, In the Midst of…

— Francis Fox

“Journals of the House ofRepresent- atives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Beginning the twenty-eighth Day of November 1776, and Ending the second Day of…

— Francis Fox

“The Pennsylvania Linea Regimental Organization and Operations, 1776-1783 (Harrisburg, Pa., 1977),133.”

— Francis Fox

“Dead soldiers along the turnpike at Antietam. Antietam was the first battle in which war dead were photographed and made publicly available, stunning Americans.…

— Charles River Editors

It occurred to me in my junior year of high school. I got my first letter from a big college. I still have that…

— Bo Jackson

“The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding. —Justice Louis Brandeis, Olmstead v. United States (1928)”

— Jane Mayer

“The tone is at once tender and analytical, impassioned and nuanced, sweeping and deeply personal. Baldwin showed us that letter-essays, as a form, are…

— Carolina De Robertis

“I have known many of those pretended champions for liberty in my time, yet do I not remember one that was not in his…

— Oliver Goldsmith

“I am an aristocrat," Virginian John Randolph would explain decades after the American Revolution. "I love liberty; I hate equality.”

— Colin Woodard

“In memory of all our brave soldiers who have lost their lives in action including my own grandfather “Gunner Thomas Henry Caunter”

— Kimberley Chambers

“He'd taken the sword, slung on his back, sandwiches and clean underwear in his pack, and the world, more or less, at his feet.…

— Terry Pratchett