"By the Declaration of Independence, dreaded by the……" — Mercy Otis Warren
"By the Declaration of Independence, dreaded by the foes an for a time doubtfully viewed by many of the friends of America, everything stood on a new and more respectable footing, both with regard to the operations of war or negotiations with foreign powers"
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30 Quotes by Mercy Otis Warren
Mercy Otis Warren has 30 quotes on this site.
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The rights of the individual should be the primary object of all governments.
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The origin of all power is in the people, and they have an incontestable right to check the creatures of…
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It is necessary for every American, with becoming energy to endeavor to stop the dissemination of principles evidently destructive of…
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Great advantages are often attended with great inconveniences, and great minds called to severe trials.
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The waves have rolled upon me, the billows are repeatedly broken over me, yet I am not sunk down.
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The United States form a young republic, a confederacy which ought ever to be cemented by a union of interests…
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The study of the human character opens at once a beautiful and a deformed picture of the soul.
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The love of domination and an uncontrolled lust of arbitrary power have prevailed among all nations and perhaps in proportion…
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Our situation is truly delicate & critical. On the one hand we are in need of a strong federal government…
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The British were indeed very far superior to the Americans in every respect necessary to military operations, except the revivified…
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A superfluity of wealth, and a train of domestic slaves, naturally banish a sense of general liberty, and nourish the…
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But truth is most likely to be exhibited by the general sense of contemporaries, when the feelings of the heart…
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