![]() ![]() Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes. Samuel Adams, American Patriot and Politician of the American Revolution ( Essay under the pseudonym “Candidus,” in The Boston Gazette, October 14, 1771) It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is, if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle or be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and designing men. They purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood and transmitted them to us with care and diligence. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors. The liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil Constitution are worth defending at all hazards it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. President ( From September 1859 speech during Lincoln’s Presidential campaign) The people are the rightful masters of both congresses and courts, not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert it. Alexander Hamilton, American political Thinker, Statesman, Lawyer, Soldier and Secretary of the Treasury of the United States ( Federalist Papers) FREEDOME QUOTES FULL( From letter to Hezekiah Niles, February 13, 1818)Ī government ought to contain in itself every power requisite to the full accomplishment of the objects committed to its care, and to the complete execution of the trusts for which it is responsible, free from every other control but a regard to the public good and to the sense of the people. A change in their religious sentiments, of their duties and obligations…This radical change in the principles, opinions, sentiments, and affections of the people, was the real American Revolution. The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people. attributed to Thomas Jefferson, 3rd US President and Author of the Declaration of Independence, in line with his beliefs but not sourced.īut what do we mean by the American Revolution? Do we mean the American war? The Revolution was effected before the war commenced. ![]() That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves. ![]()
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