...I feel anxious for the fate of our monarchy, or democracy, or whatever is to take place. I soon get lost in a labyrinth of perp...lexities; but, whatever occurs, may justice and righteousness be the stability of our times, and order arise out of confusion. Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Historically speaking, the most obvious and most decisive distinction between the American and the French Revolutions was that the... historical inheritance of the American Revolution was "limited monarchy" and that of the French Revolution an absolutism which apparently reached far back into the first centuries of our era and the last centuries of the Roman Empire. Nothing, indeed, seems more natural than that a revolution should be predetermined by the type of government it overthrows; nothing, therefore, appears more plausible than to explain the new absolute, the absolute revolution, by the absolute monarchy which preceded it, and to conclude that the more absolute the ruler, the more absolute the revolution will be which replaces him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If we apply the term revolution to what happened in North America between 1776 and 1829, it has a special meaning. Normally, the w...ord describes the process by which man transforms himself from one kind of man, living in one kind of society, with one way of looking at the world, into another kind of man, another society, another conception of life.... The American case is different: it is not a question of the Old Man transforming himself into the New, but of the New Man becoming alive to the fact that he is new, that he has been transformed already without his having realized it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms--neve...r--never--never!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people, so dead to all the feelings of liberty, as voluntarily to submit to... be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Those poor farmers who came up, that day, to defend their native soil, acted from the simplest of instincts. They did not know it ...was a deed of fame they were doing. These men did not babble of glory. They never dreamed their children would contend who had done the most. They supposed they had a right to their corn and their cattle, without paying tribute to any but their governors. And as they had no fear of man, they yet did have a fear of God.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
At Eutaw Springs the valiant died; Their limbs with dust are covered o'er--... Weep on, ye springs, your tearful tide; How many heroes are no more!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Freedom of religion, freedom of the press, and freedom of person under the protection of habeas corpus, and trial by juries impart...ially selected. These principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us, and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »