Mercy Otis Warren Quotes

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• The rights of the individual should be the primary object of all governments.

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  Rights, Government, Liberty

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• The origin of all power is in the people, and they have an incontestable right to check the creatures of their own creation.

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  People, Democracy, Creation

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• Our situation is truly delicate & critical. On the one hand we are in need of a strong federal government founded on principles that will support the prosperity & union of the colonies. On the other we have struggled for liberty & made costly sacrifices at her shrine and there are still many among us who revere her name to much to relinquish (beyond a certain medium) the rights of man for the dignity of government.

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  Strong, Sacrifice, Men

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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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  Broken, Wave

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• No republic ever yet stood on a stable foundation without satisfying the common people.

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  People, Foundation, Republic

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• I have my fears. Yet, notwithstanding the complicated difficulties that rise before us, there is no receding; and I should blush if in any instance the weak passions of my sex should damp the fortitude, the patriotism, and the manly resolution of yours. May nothing ever check that glorious spirit of freedom which inspires the patriot in the cabinet, and the hero in the field, with courage to maintain their righteous cause, and to endeavor to transmit the claim to posterity, even if they must seal the rich conveyance to their children with their own blood.

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  Sex, Children, Hero

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• It is necessary for every American, with becoming energy to endeavor to stop the dissemination of principles evidently destructive of the cause for which they have bled. It must be the combined virtue of the rulers and of the people to do this, and to rescue and save their civil and religious rights from the outstretched arm of tyranny, which may appear under any mode or form of government.

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  Religious, Rights, Government

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• It may be a mistake, that man, in a state of nature, is more disposed to cruelty than courtesy

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  Mistake, Men, May

  Mercy Otis Warren (1805). “History of the Rise, Progress and Termination of the American Revolution: Interspersed with Biographical, Political and Moral Observations. In Three Volumes”, p.19

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• The British were indeed very far superior to the Americans in every respect necessary to military operations, except the revivified courage and resolution, the result of sudden success after despair.

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  Courage, Military, Despair

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• Democratic principles are the result of equality of condition.

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  Women, Equality, Hymns

  Mercy Otis Warren (1805). “History of the Rise, Progress and Termination of the American Revolution: Interspersed with Biographical, Political and Moral Observations. In Three Volumes”, p.22

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• I am more and more convinced, of the propensity in human nature to tyranize over their fellow men.

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  Men, Fellow Man, Human Nature

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• 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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  Liberty, Slavery, May

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• The balm of life, a kind and faithful friend.

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  Friends, Faithful, Kind

  Mercy Otis Warren (1980). “The plays and poems of Mercy Otis Warren: facsimile reproductions”, Scholars Facsimilies & Reprint

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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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  Beautiful, Character, Soul

  Mercy Otis Warren (1805). “History of the Rise, Progress and Termination of the American Revolution: Interspersed with Biographical, Political and Moral Observations. In Three Volumes”, p.2

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• The love of domination and an uncontrolled lust of arbitrary power have prevailed among all nations and perhaps in proportion to the degrees of civilization.

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  Civilization, Lust, Degrees

  Mercy Otis Warren (1805). “History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution: Interspersed with Biographical, Political and Moral Observations”, p.5

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• 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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  Character, Ideas, Progress

  Mercy Otis Warren (1805). “History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution: Interspersed with Biographical, Political and Moral Observations”, p.4

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• The United States form a young republic, a confederacy which ought ever to be cemented by a union of interests and affection, under the influence of those principles which obtained their independence.

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  Independence, Principles, United States

  Mercy Otis Warren (1805). “History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution: Interspersed with Biographical, Political and Moral Observations”, p.7

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• Great advantages are often attended with great inconveniences, and great minds called to severe trials.

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  Mind, Trials, Advantage

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• But in the hero ne'er forget the man.

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  Hero, Men, Forget

  Mercy Otis Warren (1790). “Poems dramatic and miscellaneous”, p.109

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• The bulk of mankind have indeed, in all countries in their turn, been made the prey of ambition.

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  Country, Ambition, Prey

  Mercy Otis Warren (1805). “History of the Rise, Progress and Termination of the American Revolution: Interspersed with Biographical, Political and Moral Observations. In Three Volumes”, p.229

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• To learn to die is an heroic work.

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  Death, Heroic, Dies

  Mercy Otis Warren (1790). “Poems, dramatic and miscellaneous”, p.147

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• A superfluity of wealth, and a train of domestic slaves, naturally banish a sense of general liberty, and nourish the seeds of that kind of independence that usually terminates in aristocracy.

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  Independence, Liberty, Aristocracy

  "It's Time We Called the Declaration of Independence's Bluff" by Charles P.Pierce, www.esquire.com. July 4, 2016.

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• 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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  Friends, Fear, War

  "It's Time We Called the Declaration of Independence's Bluff" by Charles P.Pierce, www.esquire.com. July 4, 2016.

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• 'Tis social converse, animates the soul.

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  Women, Soul, Social

  Mercy Otis Warren (1790). “Poems, dramatic and miscellaneous”, p.213

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• Public emergencies may require the hand of severity to fall heavily on those who are not personally guilty, but compassion prompts, and ever urges to milder methods

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  Fall, Compassion, Hands

  Mercy Otis Warren (1805). “History of the Rise, Progress and Termination of the American Revolution: Interspersed with Biographical, Political and Moral Observations. In Three Volumes”, p.338

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