American revolution Quote by Mercy Otis Warren

The balm of life, a kind and faithful friend.

— Mercy Otis Warren

The British were indeed very far superior to the Americans in every respect necessary to military operations, except the revivified courage and resolution, the…

— Mercy Otis Warren

Democratic principles are the result of equality of condition.

— Mercy Otis Warren

The love of domination and an uncontrolled lust of arbitrary power have prevailed among all nations and perhaps in proportion to the degrees of…

— Mercy Otis Warren

It may be a mistake, that man, in a state of nature, is more disposed to cruelty than courtesy

— Mercy Otis Warren

The origin of all power is in the people, and they have an incontestable right to check the creatures of their own creation.

— Mercy Otis Warren

To learn to die is an heroic work.

— Mercy Otis Warren

The rights of the individual should be the primary object of all governments.

— Mercy Otis Warren

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

The United States form a young republic, a confederacy which ought ever to be cemented by a union of interests and affection, under the…

— Mercy Otis Warren

A superfluity of wealth, and a train of domestic slaves, naturally banish a sense of general liberty, and nourish the seeds of that kind…

— Mercy Otis Warren

But in the hero ne'er forget the man.

— Mercy Otis Warren