Patriot Echoes – Teaching 250 years of patriot sacrifice.
- 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: Nature
Quotes
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“The causes of faction are thus sown in the nature of man. ”
James Madison , Federalist No. 10 · View -
“Man has no property in man; neither can any generation bind another. ”
Thomas Paine , Rights of Man · View -
“What seems so impossible to nature is quite easy to grace. ”
Elizabeth Ann Seton , Collected Writings IIIa · View -
“The latent causes of faction are thus sown in the nature of man; and we see them everywhere brought into different degrees of activity, according to the different circumstances of civil society. ”
James Madison , Federalist No. 10 · View -
“The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself. ”
Alexander Hamilton , The Farmer Refuted · View -
“Liberty is a plant of rapid growth when once it has taken root. ”
Mercy Otis Warren , History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution · View