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Your search for "
potential of America
" returned 14 results from 9 Founders.
John Adams:
"I always consider the settlement
of
America
with reverence and wonder, as the opening
of
a grand scene and design in Providence for the illumination
of
the ignorant, and the emancipation
of
the slavish part
of
mankind all over the earth."
source: Cleon Skousen, The 5000 Year Leap. p304
founding
of
America
,
potential
of
America
,
emancipation
,
example
of
America
James Wilson:
"After the lapse
of
six thousand years since the Creation
of
the world,
America
now presents the first instance
of
a people assembled to weigh deliberately and calmly, and to decide leisurely and peaceably, upon the form
of
government by which they will bind themselves and their posterity."
source: Speech on proposed Federal Constitution, November 24, 1787.
formation
of
constitution
,
framers
,
miracle
of
america
Thomas Paine:
"The cause
of
America
is in a great measure the cause
of
all mankind."
source: Common Sense, 1776.
America
,
purpose
,
destiny
Thomas Paine:
"America ever is what she thinks herself to be."
source: The Crisis, 1780.
America
,
purpose
,
destiny
,
the power
of
thought
Joseph Warren:
"May we ever be a people favoured
of
GOD. May our land be a land
of
liberty, the seat
of
virtue, the asylum
of
the oppressed, a name and a praise in the whole earth, until the last shock
of
time shall bury the empires
of
the world in one common undistinguished ruin!"
source: Boston Massacre Oration, March 5, 1772.
America
,
Americanism
,
liberty
,
patriotism
,
virtue
,
faith
Silas Downer:
"When we view this country in its extent and variety
of
climates, soils, and produce, we ought to be exceeding thankful to divine goodness in bestowing it upon our forefathers, and giving it as an heritage for their children. We may call it the promised land, a good land and a large--a land
of
hills and vallies,
of
rivers, brooks, and springs
of
water--a land
of
milk and honey, and wherein we may eat bread to the full. A land whose stones are iron, the most useful material in all nature, and
of
other choice mines and minerals; and a land whose rivers and adjacent seas are stored with the best
of
fish. In a word, no part
of
the habitable world can boast
of
so many natural advantages as this northern part
of
America
."
source: Discourse at the Dedication of the Tree of Liberty, 1768.
America
,
patriotism
,
promised land
,
rich in resources
John Adams:
"Yesterday the greatest question was decided which was ever debated in
America
; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided upon men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, that those United Colonies are, and
of
right ought to be, free and independent states."
source: Letter to Abigail Adams, July 3, 1776.
independence
,
national freedom
,
america
Thomas Paine:
"But where says some is the King
of
America
? I'll tell you Friend, he reigns above, and doth not make havoc
of
mankind like the Royal Brute
of
Britain. ... let it be brought forth placed on the divine law, the word
of
God; let a crown be placed thereon, by which the world may know, that so far as we approve
of
monarchy, that in
America
THE LAW IS KING."
source: Common Sense, 1776.
kings
,
kingdoms
,
religion
,
god
,
law
,
justice
Samuel Adams:
"If the liberties
of
America
are ever completely ruined,
of
which in my opinion there is now the utmost danger, it will in all probability be the consequence
of
a mistaken notion
of
prudence, which leads men to acquiesce in measures
of
the most destructive tendency for the sake
of
present ease. When designs are form'd to rase the very foundations
of
a free government, those few who are to erect their grandeur and fortunes upon the general ruin, will employ every art to sooth the devoted people into a state
of
indolence, inattention and security. ... They are alarmed at nothing so much, as attempts to awaken the people to jealousy and watchfulness; and it has been an old game played over and over again, to hold up the men who would rouse their fellow citizens and countrymen to a sense
of
their real danger, and spirit them to the most zealous activity in the use
of
all proper means for the preservation
of
the public liberty, as a 'pretended patriots,' 'intemperate politicians,' rash, hot-headed men, Incendiaries, wretched desperadoes, who, as was said
of
the best
of
men, would turn the world upside down, or have done it already."
source: Essay in the Boston Gazette, 1771.
attention
,
neglect
,
watchfullness
,
public awareness
,
liberties
,
patriotism
John Adams:
"It has ever been my hobby-horse to see rising in
America
an empire
of
liberty, and a prospect
of
two or three hundred millions
of
freemen, without one noble or one king among them. You say it is impossible. If I should agree with you in this, I would still say, let us try the experiment, and preserve our equality as long as we can."
source: To Count Sarsfield, February 3, 1786.
liberty
,
freedom
,
freemen
,
king
,
monarchy
,
democracy
,
equality
,
republic
Noah Webster:
"Every child in
America
should be acquainted with his own country. He should read books that furnish him with ideas that will be useful to him in life and practice. As soon as he opens his lips, he should rehearse the history
of
his own country."
source: On the Education of Youth in America, 1788.
education
,
youth
,
knowledge
of
America
's beginnings
,
reading
,
books
John Paul Jones:
"I would lay down my life for
America
, but I cannot trifle with my honor."
source: Letter to A. Livingston, September 4, 1777.
honor
,
loyality
,
commitment
,
sacrifice
Benjamin Franklin:
"In
America
, salaries, where indispensable, are extremely low; but much
of
public business is done gratis. The honor
of
serving the public ably and faithfully is deemed sufficient. Public spirit really exists there, and has great effects. In England it is universally deemed a nonentity, and whoever pretends to it is laughed at as a fool, or suspected as a knave."
source: Smith, Writings of Benjamin Franklin, 7:4.
wages
,
business interactions
,
public service
,
dignity
Noah Webster:
"Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom
of
Europe. The supreme power in
America
cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body
of
the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any band
of
regular troops that can be, on any pretence, raised in the United States."
source: An Examination of the Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution.
arms
,
the right to bear arms
,
weapons
,
defense
,
power
of
the people
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