Mercy Otis Warren Quotes About Liberty

Quotes about: Liberty

• 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.

  Mercy Otis Warren

  Strong, Sacrifice, Men

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

  Mercy Otis Warren

  Rights, Government, Liberty

• 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.

  Mercy Otis Warren

  Liberty, Slavery, May

• 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.

  Mercy Otis Warren

  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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