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“The balm of life, a kind and faithful friend.”
Source: The plays and poems of Mercy Otis Warren: facsimile reproductions
“No republic ever yet stood on a stable foundation without satisfying the common people.”
“'Tis social converse, animates the soul.”
Source: Poems, dramatic and miscellaneous
“The bulk of mankind have indeed, in all countries in their turn, been made the prey of ambition.”
Source: History of the Rise, Progress and Termination of the American Revolution: Interspersed with Biographical, Political and Moral Observations. In Three Volumes
“Democratic principles are the result of equality of condition.”
Source: History of the Rise, Progress and Termination of the American Revolution: Interspersed with Biographical, Political and Moral Observations. In Three Volumes
“The rights of the individual should be the primary object of all governments.”
“The waves have rolled upon me, the billows are repeatedly broken over me, yet I am not sunk down.”
Source: History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution: Interspersed with Biographical, Political and Moral Observations
“The study of the human character opens at once a beautiful and a deformed picture of the soul.”
Source: History of the Rise, Progress and Termination of the American Revolution: Interspersed with Biographical, Political and Moral Observations. In Three Volumes
Source: History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution: Interspersed with Biographical, Political and Moral Observations
“It may be a mistake, that man, in a state of nature, is more disposed to cruelty than courtesy”
Source: History of the Rise, Progress and Termination of the American Revolution: Interspersed with Biographical, Political and Moral Observations. In Three Volumes
Source: History of the Rise, Progress and Termination of the American Revolution: Interspersed with Biographical, Political and Moral Observations. In Three Volumes
Source: History of the Rise, Progress and Termination of the American Revolution: Interspersed with Biographical, Political and Moral Observations. In Three Volumes
Source: History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution: Interspersed with Biographical, Political and Moral Observations
“I am more and more convinced, of the propensity in human nature to tyranize over their fellow men.”
“To learn to die is an heroic work.”
Source: Poems, dramatic and miscellaneous
“But in the hero ne'er forget the man.”
Source: Poems dramatic and miscellaneous