America Quote by Isaac Barre

Whereas our ancestors (not of choice) were the first successful cultivators of the wilds of America, we their descendants feel ourselves entitled to participate…

— Richard Allen

The colonists are by the law of nature free-born, as indeed all man are, white or black...It is a clear truth that those who…

— James Otis

The blood of criminals fertilises the soil of liberty.

— Joseph Fouche

If you allow one single germ, one single seed of slavery to remain in the soil of America... that germ will spring up, that…

— Ernestine Rose

It is a law of nature that fainthearted men should be the fruit of luxurious countries, for we never find that the same soil…

— Herodotus

I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Our ancestors ... possessed a right, which nature has given to all men, of departing from the country in which chance, not choice has…

— Thomas Jefferson

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.

— Frederick Douglass

How many men Have spent their blood in their dear country's service, Yet now pine under want; while selfish slaves, That even would cut…

— Thomas Otway

The slaves of power mind the cause they have to serve, because their own interest is concerned; but the friends of liberty always sacrifice…

— William Hazlitt

Not because they were servants were we so reserved, for many noble persons are forced to serve through necessity, but by reason the vulgar…

— Margaret Cavendish

“If these seeds would take root in my liberty, and if His will would grow from my freedom, I would become the love that…

— Thomas Merton