Patriot Echoes – Illuminating 250 years of patriot courage.
- 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: Philosophy
Quotes
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“On the dogmas of religion ... all mankind ... have been quarrelling, fighting, burning and torturing one another, for abstractions unintelligible to themselves and to all others. ”
Thomas Jefferson , Correspondence and Papers · View -
“The rights of man are derived from the laws of nature. ”
Mercy Otis Warren , History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution · View -
“It may be a mistake, that man, in a state of nature, is more disposed to cruelty than courtesy. ”
Mercy Otis Warren , Observations on the New Constitution · View -
“Liberty, according to my metaphysics, is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. ”
John Adams , Letter to Thomas Jefferson · View