Patriot Echoes – Celebrating 250 years of patriot truth.
- 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: Principle
Quotes
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“Those who identify themselves with the people, have confidence in them, cherish and consider them as the most honest and safe... depository of the public interests. ”
Thomas Jefferson , Letter to Henry Lee · View -
“Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching. ”
Thomas Jefferson , Letter to Thomas McKean · View -
“A popular Government without popular information or the means of acquiring it's but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy. ”
James Madison , Letter to W.T. Barry · View -
“Liberty ought to be the direct end of government. ”
Roger Sherman , Notes from the Constitutional Convention · View -
“Every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle. We have called by different names brethren of the same principle. ”
Thomas Jefferson , First Inaugural Address · View -
“The Revolution was the child of principle, not of passion. ”
Mercy Otis Warren , History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution · View