Quotations by Prominent Figures of the Revolutionary Era

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Quotations by Prominent Figures of the
Revolutionary Era
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

• Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will
  learn in no other.
• Poor Richards Almanack

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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

• We must all hand together, or assuredly we shall
  all hand separately.
• At signing of Declaration of Independence

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PATRICK HENRY

• Caesar had his Brutus Charles the First his
  Cromwell and George the Third Treason! Cried
  the Speaker may profit by their example. If
  this be treason, make the most of it.
• Speech on the Stamp Act, Virgina House of
  Burgesses

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THOMAS PAINE

• He that would make his own liberty secure must
  guard even his enemy from oppression.
• Dissertation on First Principles of Government

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PHILLIS WHEATLEY

• For bright Aurora now demands my song.
• Aurora, hail, and all the thousand dyes,
• Which deck thy progress through the vaulted
  skies.
• An Hymn to the Morning

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THOMAS JEFFERSON

• The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time
  to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
• Letter to William Stevens Smith

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ABIGAIL ADAMS

• It is not in the still calm of life, or the
  repose of a pacific station, that great
  characters are formed. . . . . All history will
  convince you of this . . . . . Great necessities
  call out great virtues.
• Letter to her son, John Quincy Adams

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MICHEL-GUILLAUME JEAN DE CREVECOEUR

• What then is the American, this new man?
• Letters from an American Farmer

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PHILLIP FRENEAU

• Thus briefly sketched the sacred RIGHTS OF MAN,
  How inconsistent with the ROYAL PLAN!
• On Mr. Paines Rights of Man