- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
Colonists Quotes
Voices from America's colonial founding.
These quotes trace the colonists' story from natural rights arguments about life, liberty, and property to family histories split by the Revolutionary War. They connect with quotes about America.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Liberty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can.
- Burden
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the colonists hadn't rejected British militarism and the massive financial burden of maintaining the British military, America wouldn't exist.
- British Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
I descend from both Philadelphia Quakers and Carolina colonists whose families were separated by the Revolutionary War. That helped give me insight into the agony of Patriots who, until the British government denied their claims, had always, like Ben Franklin himself, thought of themselves as free-born Englishmen.
- Breach
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- Nov 07, 2020
American government did not originate in any abstract theories about liberty and equality, but in the actual experience gained by generation after generation of English colonists in managing their own political affairs. The Revolution did not make a breach in the continuity of their institutional life.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020