"The progress of the American Revolution has been……" — Mercy Otis Warren
"The progress of the American Revolution has been so rapid and such the alteration of manners, the blending of characters, and the new train of ideas that almost universally prevail, that the principles which animated to the noblest exertions have been nearly annihilated."
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30 Quotes by Mercy Otis Warren
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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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