Patriot Echoes – Illuminating 250 years of patriot ideals.
- March 6, 1809, 217 years ago — Death of Thomas Heyward Jr..
- March 6, 1724, 302 years ago — Birth of Henry Laurens, President of the Continental Congress.
- March 7, 1707, 319 years ago — Birth of Stephen Hopkins, signer of the Declaration of Independence.
- March 7, 1699, 327 years ago — Birth of Susanna Boylston Adams, mother of John Adams.
Topic: Legacy
Quotes
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“They'd murdered my husband. But I still had his words. His love letters. His essays. Thousands of pages. ”
Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton , My Dear Hamilton · View -
“I became the keeper of his truth, the guardian of his memory. ”
Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton , My Dear Hamilton · View -
“They could kill him, but they couldn't silence him. Not if his story was told. Not if his work was preserved. ”
Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton , My Dear Hamilton · View -
“But say, ye Muses, why this partial grace, To one alone of Africs sable race; From age to age transmitting thus his name With the finest glory in the rolls of fame? Thy virtues, great Maecenas! shall be sung In praise of him, from whom those virtues sprung. ”
Phillis Wheatley , To Maecenas in Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral · View -
“Let the Revolution be remembered not for its battles, but for its principles. ”
Mercy Otis Warren , History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution · View -
“Let the history of America be a lesson to the world. ”
Mercy Otis Warren , History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution · View