"On the evening of December 25, General Washington……" — Mercy Otis Warren
"On the evening of December 25, General Washington in a most severe season crossed the Delaware with a part of his army, then reduced to less than 2000 men in the whole."
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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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True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but…
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You never find yourself until you face the truth.
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That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and…
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Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.
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Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of…
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Neither the Army nor the Navy is of any protection, or very little protection, against aerial raids.
— Alexander Graham Bell
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Back in Chicago, all we cared about was rock 'n' roll and staying out of the army.
— John Belushi
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I like army boots, I like peasant skirts - sometimes together! So I do know that I have odd taste.
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It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.
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My dad was in the Army. The Army's not great pay, but, you know, we moved from Army patch to…
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Women are nothing but machines for producing children.
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Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.
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