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.
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  • “Even today, amid these whirls, indeed flippancy, and blind fury of infidelity, entire lack of first-class captains and leaders, added to the plentiful meanness and vulgarity of the ostensible massesthe problem, the labor question, beginning to open like a yawning gulf, rapidly widening every yearwhat prospect have we? ”
    Walt Whitman , Journal Entry (c.1850) · View
  • “The Bible contains more knowledge necessary to man in his present state than any other book in the world. ”
    Benjamin Rush , Essay on Education · View
  • “The order of society must reflect the order of Christ. ”
    Richard Dobbs Spaight , Speech to North Carolina Assembly · View
  • “Satire is a Mirror wherein we see every Face but our own. ”
    Benjamin Franklin , Silence Dogood Letter No. 13 · View
  • “How much is the Beauty of a Woman undervalued by the Folly of her Dress! ”
    Benjamin Franklin , Silence Dogood Letter No. 3 · View
  • “Marriage is too often the Effect of Chance, rather than Choice. ”
    Benjamin Franklin , Silence Dogood Letter No. 8 · View
  • “Liberty and justice are the twin pillars of a free society. ”
    John Jay , Letter to the New York Assembly · View
  • “Disorder in the society is the result of disorder in the family. ”
    Elizabeth Ann Seton , Collected Writings II · View
  • “The practice of morality being necessary for the well-being of society, it is incumbent on its members to support and encourage it ... and to countenance the principles of religion. ”
    Benjamin Rush , Essays, Literary, Moral and Philosophical · View
  • “Justice is the ligament which holds civil society together. ”
    Mercy Otis Warren , History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution · View