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“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 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

Pennsylvania is the birthplace of the nation, where the first words of the Declaration of Independence were drafted, where our Constitution was framed, where…

— Josh Shapiro

“Troop 75 of Ridgefield, Connecticut.”

— Alvin Townley

“In a period of less than 150 years, to progress from slavery to Pennsylvania Avenue speaks volumes about this family and our nation. Distracted…

— Megan Smolenyak

“On payday near the entrances to the mines, lines of maimed and debilitated workers begged for handouts. Pennsylvania”

— Mary Cronk Farrell

“That brings me back to Monday, March 10, 1783, in Newburgh, New York, and the extraordinary events that followed over the next several days.”

— John Ripin Miller

The honorable William Penn, late governor of Pennsylvania, was chosen agent to the Court of Britain, and directed to deliver the petition to the…

— Mercy Otis Warren

July 4, 1776 was the historic day on which the representatives of three millions of people vocalized Concord, and Lexington, and Bunker Hill, which…

— Calvin Coolidge

“They entered Pennsylvania and the road grew smooth for a few hundred yards, like a good intention, before settling back to the old scabby,…

— Anne Tyler

“the headline death and disaster atop the latest dispatch from Homestead. “Capital and labor have met once more on a bloody field,” the article…

— James McGrath Morris

“in August 1777 that "no public or private injury or insult shall prevail on me to forsake the cause of my injured and oppressed…

— Willard Sterne Randall