Favorite Quotes From The American Revolution

Posted by khalling 12 years, 4 months ago to Culture
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“They tell us, sir, that we are weak; unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week, or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house? Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction? Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying supinely on our backs and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot? Sir, we are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of nature hath placed in our power.”
― Patrick Henry
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  • Posted by $ Tap2Golf 12 years, 3 months ago
    The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.”
    ― Thomas Jefferson
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  • Posted by lmarrott 12 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    It's been a great book so far. I checked it out digitally from the local library but I think it is about to expire and I'm not done so I need to go buy it. Author is: Jon Meacham
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  • Posted by lmarrott 12 years, 3 months ago
    "...that reasons, not revelation or unquestioned tradition, or superstition, deserved pride of place in human affairs." --Thomas Jefferson
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  • Posted by lmarrott 12 years, 3 months ago
    I just stumbled onto this and I am in the middle of reading The Art of Power about Thomas Jefferson. I'll get it out and add a quote or two I've highlighted on my Kindle.
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  • Posted by zaaaaper 12 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    He was a French social commentator and political thinker who lived during the Age of Enlightenment Just trying to show how long this battle against Tyranny has been going on Against ages of formed Government and politics /Hope I got my Times right lol
    Born: January 18, 1689, La Brède, France
    Died: February 10, 1755, Paris, France
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  • Posted by $ AJAshinoff 12 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    the Sedition acts were to discourage insurrection by those loyal to a foreign power. In that way I think they did work. Certainly doing nothing would have allowed the cancer to grow until insurrection would have occurred.
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  • Posted by zaaaaper 12 years, 3 months ago
    "If we do not step forward, then we step back. If we do not protect a right, then we deny it."
    Paul Martin (Former Prime Minister of Canada)
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  • Posted by $ AJAshinoff 12 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    We could use an Alien and sedition act these days...unfortunately we'd have to start in out government. It was repealed but again instituted in 1918 and believe again in 1954.
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  • Posted by $ AJAshinoff 12 years, 3 months ago
    "It is the manners and spirit of a people which preserve a republic in vigor. A degeneracy in these is a canker which soon eats to the heart of its laws and constitution."
    Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, Query 19, 1781
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  • Posted by zaaaaper 12 years, 3 months ago
    "Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!"
    Benjamin Franklin
    Man will ultimately be governed by God or by tyrants."
    Benjamin Franklin
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  • Posted by ObjectiveAnalyst 12 years, 3 months ago
    "These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value..."
    ~ Thomas Paine, American Crisis

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  • Posted by zaaaaper 12 years, 3 months ago
    "The jaws of power are always open to devour, and her arm is always stretched out, if possible, to destroy the freedom of thinking, speaking, and writing."
    John Adams
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  • Posted by khalling 12 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    they said some political mumbo jumbo too. it begs the question: is there a difference between a politician and a statesman?
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  • Posted by LetsShrug 12 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Agreed. I've been in a book club for several years and for the last 6 months or so I've managed to bring up the importance of individual rights during every book discussion. We mostly read fluff books so it's not always an easy feat. Our next book is Fancy Pants by Tina Faye (blaht) so I have a challenge coming. But yes, always speaking up, pointing out errors in our gov etc is up to those of us that will be vocal whenever possible.
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  • Posted by j_IR1776wg 12 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I've come to believe that is we in the Gulch who must form the vanguard of those who tell the truth about individual rights in any way we can in whatever venue we find ourselves.
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