"Mankind may amuse themselves with theoretic systems of……" — Mercy Otis Warren
"Mankind may amuse themselves with theoretic systems of liberty... but we can only discern its true value by the practical and wretched effects of slavery."
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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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Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.
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The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government…
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The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is…
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Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to…
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On June 22, 2008, at the age of 71, an American revolutionary died. He was a bona fide genius, an…
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My fellow citizens, our nation is poised for greatness. We must do what we know is right, and do it…
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What a glorious morning this is!
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The times that tried men's souls are over-and the greatest and completest revolution the world ever knew, gloriously and happily…
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Our unalterable resolution would be to be free. They have attempted to subdue us by force, but God be praised!…
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The Sun never shined on a cause of greater worth.
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Now is the seedtime of continental union, faith and honor. The least fracture now, will be like a name engraved…
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