The Revolutionary War
Verbatim: From The Revolutionary War
| "The American colonies stand no longer in need of
England's protection." Charles Gravier Comte de Vergennes, French government official |
"A Loyalist is a thing whose head is in England,
and its body is in America, and its neck ought to be stretched." Patriot |
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| "O! ye that love mankind!…stand forth! Every
spot of the Old World isoverrun with oppression." Thomas Paine, Author of Common Sense |
"Whoever looks upon them [the Patriots] as an
irregular mob will find himself much mistaken." British officer |
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| "We are told to be quiet when we see that very
money which is torn from us by lawless force made use of still further to oppose us, to
feed and pamper a set of infamous wretches who swarm like the locusts of Egypt." Samuel Adams, One of the leaders of the Boston Sons of Liberty |
"The Congress have tied a…knot, which the
Parliament will find they can neither cut nor untie. The thirteen united Colonies now rise
into an Independent Republic among the kingdoms, states, and empires on earth."
Ezra Stiles, Patriot |
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| "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all
men are created equal that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable
Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness." Thomas Jefferson, The Declaration of Independence |
"…you are to be hanged…and your bodies
divided each into four quarters, and your heads and quarters to be then at the King's
disposal; and may the Almighty God have mercy on your souls." George III, Britain's King (America's last king) |