The Revolution was effected before the War commenced. The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people; a change in their ...religious sentiments of their duties and obligations.... This radical change in the principles, opinions, sentiments, and affections of the people, was the real American Revolution.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination--everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignor...ant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, f...or the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The second day of July 1776, will be the most memorable epoch in the history of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celeb...rated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival. It ought to be commemorated, as the day of deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires and illuminations, from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forward forever moreLESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not c...ommit suicide.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »