"We cannot read their book. They tell us different stories about what it contains, and we believe they make the book talk to suit themselves."—Red Jacket.
"False rules prankt in reason's garb."—Milton.
"Yea, I take myself to witness that I have loved no darkness, sophisticated no truth, nursed no delusion, allowed no fear."—Empedocles.
"I assured his honor, that law was a science in which I had not much conversed, further than by employing advocates in vain upon some injustices that had been done me: however, I would give him all the satisfaction I was able."—Swift.
"All true men in America pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor to 'throw off the shackles of usurped control,' and in the outcome they did 'hew them link from link. The friends of liberty in England sided with patriots here. Burke and Fox made the defensive sophistry of ministers contemptible; Chatham declared that if Americans submitted they would become slaves themselves, and fit instruments to enslave others. 'I rejoice,' said he, 'that America resisted.'"—J. Black.
"So I hear in the dim distance the first notes of the jubilee, rising from the hearts of the nation; soon, very soon, you shall hear it at the gates of the citadel, and the stars and stripes shall guarantee liberty forever from the lakes to the gulf."—Phillips.
"Suspect every one who approaches that jewel."—Patrick Henry.
"What I intend now to say to you is, next to your duty to God and the care of your salvation, of the greatest concern to yourselves and your children: your bread and clothing, and every common necessary of life, entirely depend upon it. Therefore I do most earnestly exhort you as men, as Christians, as parents, and as lovers of your country , to read this paper with the utmost attention, or get it read to you by others."—Swift.
"I was born an American; I shall live an American; I shall die an American."—Webster.
"The same deep-seated love of Liberty
Beats in our hearts. We speak the same good tongue
Familiar with all songs your bards have sung,
Those large men, Milton, Shakespeare, both are ours."—Stoddard.
