Revolution Quotes - Page 34

• It cannot be good to tax the Americans... You will lose more than you gain.

  Thomas Hutchinson

  Gains, Taxes, Be Good

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• The Stamp Act imposed on the colonies by the Parliament of Great Britain is an ill-judged measure. Parliament has no right to put its hands into our pockets without our consent.

  George Washington

  Hands, Pockets, Parliament

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• No parts of his Majesty's dominions can be taxed without their consent.

  James Otis

  Taxation Without Representation, Majesty, Dominion

  James Otis (1769). “A vindication of the British colonies: By James Otis, Esq; of Boston..”, p.40

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• Do you think if the stamp-act is repealed, that the North Americans will be satisfied?

  Peter Thomas

  Thinking, Stamps, Stamp Act

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• The epithets of parent and child have been long applied to Great Britain and her colonies, [but] we rarely see anything from your side of the water except the authoritative style of a master to a school-boy.

  George Mason

  Children, School, Boys

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• The King has degenerated into a tyrant and forfeits all rights to his subjects' obedience.

  Patrick Henry

  Kings, Rights, Tyrants

  Patrick Henry (2007). “Patrick Henry in his speeches and writings and in the words of his contemporaries”, Warwick House Publishing

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• Virtual representation is so absurd as to not deserve an answer. I therefore pass it over with contempt.

  Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden

  Answers, Absurd, Contempt

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• All power is lodged in, and consequently derived from, the people. We should wear it as a breastplate, and buckle it on as our armour.

  George Mason

  People, Should, Buckles

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• For God's sake, take care of your men. If they fire, they die!

  Henry Knox

  Men, Fire, Care

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• Has the grim savage rushed again from the wilderness? Or does some fiend... twang her deadly arrows at our breast? No, none of these: it is the hand of Britain that inflicts the wound.

  Joseph Warren

  Hands, Arrows, Doe

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• The New Englanders, by their canting, whining and insinuating tricks, have persuaded the rest of the colonies that the government is going to make absolute slaves of them.

  Nicholas Cresswell

  Government, Slave, Whining

  Nicholas Cresswell (2007). “The Journal of Nicholas Cresswell”, Applewood Books

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• The die is now cast; the colonies must either submit or triumph.... we must not retreat.

  George III

  Triumph, Retreat, Casts

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• We are determined to listen to nothing from the illegal congress.

  George III

  Determined, Illegal, Congress

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• For the fate of Charles the first, hath only made kings more subtle — not more just.

  Thomas Paine

  Kings, Fate, Subtle

  "Thomas Paine on Liberty: Including Common Sense and Other Writings".

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• If you were lost for America, there is nobody who could keep the army and the revolution [going] for six months.

  Marquis de Lafayette

  Army, America, Six Months

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• The Army, as usual, are without pay; and a great part of the soldiery without shirts; and though the patience of them is equally threadbare, the States seem perfectly indifferent to their cries.

  George Washington

  Army, Usual, Pay

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• To cash paid for saddlery, a letter case, maps, glasses, etc etc etc. for the use of my Command: 29 pounds 13 shillings and sixpence... To Mrs Washington's travelling expenses in coming to and returning from my winter quarters, the money to defray that taken from my private purse: 1064 pounds, one shilling.

  George Washington

  Taken, Winter, Glasses

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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.

  Mercy Otis Warren

  Liberty, Slavery, May

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• That slow poison [slavery] is daily contaminating the minds and morals of our people. Every gentlemen here is born a petty tyrant, practiced in acts of despotism and cruelty.

  George Mason

  Tyrants, People, Gentleman

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• The day is not distant when we must bear and adopt [the abolition of slavery], or worse will follow.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Abolition Of Slavery, Bears, Slavery

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• Never yet could I find that a black had uttered a thought above the level of plain narration; never saw even an elemental trait of painting or sculpture.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Black, Sculpture, Levels

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• A half-starved limping government, always moving upon crutches and tottering at every step.

  George Washington

  Moving, Government, Half

  George Washington, John Clement Fitzpatrick, David Maydole Matteson (1784). “The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources, 1745-1799”, p.306

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• The two principles on which our conduct towards the Indians should be founded are justice and fear. After the injuries we have done them, they cannot love us.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Equality, Two, Justice

  Thomas Jefferson, Richard Holland Johnston, Thomas Jefferson memorial association of the United States (1907). “The writings of Thomas Jefferson”

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• Hence, within the space of two generations there has been a complete revolution in the attitude of the trades-unions toward the women working in their trades.

  Florence Kelley

  Attitude, Two, Space

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• Roosevelt was the one who had the vision to change our policy from isolationism to world leadership. That was a terrific revolution. Our country's never been the same since.

  W. Averell Harriman

  Leadership, Country, Vision

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