Patriot Echoes – Remembering 250 years of patriot principles.
  • March 6, 1809, 217 years agoDeath of Thomas Heyward Jr..
  • March 6, 1724, 302 years agoBirth of Henry Laurens, President of the Continental Congress.
  • March 7, 1707, 319 years agoBirth of Stephen Hopkins, signer of the Declaration of Independence.
  • March 7, 1699, 327 years agoBirth of Susanna Boylston Adams, mother of John Adams.
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  • “Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light. ”
    George Washington , Diary Entry · View
  • “Satire is a Mirror wherein we see every Face but our own. ”
    Benjamin Franklin , Silence Dogood Letter No. 13 · View
  • “Half a truth is often a great lie. ”
    Benjamin Franklin , Poor Richards Almanack · View
  • “Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light. ”
    George Washington , Letter to Charles M. Thruston · 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. ”
    Alexander Hamilton , The Farmer Refuted · View
  • “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal ”
    Thomas Jefferson , Declaration of Independence · View
  • “Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it. ”
    Thomas Jefferson , First Inaugural Address · View
  • “Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence. ”
    John Adams , Argument in Defense of the British Soldiers · View
  • “Half a truth is often a great lie. ”
    Benjamin Franklin , Poor Richards Almanack · View
  • “Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives. ”
    James Madison , Letter to W.T. Barry · View
  • “Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices. ”
    Benjamin Franklin , Poor Richards Almanack · View
  • “Even if the stories we tell dont paint the whole picture, theyre still true. ”
    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
  • “Let the historian speak with impartiality and truth. ”
    Mercy Otis Warren , History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution · View
  • “Truth is the soul of history. ”
    Mercy Otis Warren , History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution · View
  • “I continued the press so truth would not be silenced. ”
    Ann Smith Franklin , Rhode Island Colonial Press Records · View
  • “Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes... they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence. ”
    John Adams , Argument in Defense of British Soldiers · View
  • “If truth be not diffused, error will be. ”
    Daniel Webster , Speech at Dartmouth College · View