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It may be a mistake, that man, in a state of nature, is more disposed to cruelty than courtesy
Mercy Otis Warren
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Mercy Otis Warren
Age: 86 †
Born: 1728
Born: September 14
Died: 1814
Died: October 19
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By the Declaration of Independence, dreaded by the foes an for a time doubtfully viewed by many of the friends of America, everything stood on a new and more respectable footing, both with regard to the operations of war or negotiations with foreign powers.
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The British were indeed very far superior to the Americans in every respect necessary to military operations, except the revivified courage and resolution, the result of sudden success after despair.
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The honorable William Penn, late governor of Pennsylvania, was chosen agent to the Court of Britain, and directed to deliver the petition to the King himself and to endeavor by his personal influence to procure a favorable reception to this last address.
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The bulk of mankind have indeed, in all countries in their turn, been made the prey of ambition.
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The rights of the individual should be the primary object of all governments.
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Democratic principles are the result of equality of condition.
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A superfluity of wealth, and a train of domestic slaves, naturally banish a sense of general liberty, and nourish the seeds of that kind of independence that usually terminates in aristocracy.
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'Tis social converse, animates the soul.
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But truth is most likely to be exhibited by the general sense of contemporaries, when the feelings of the heart can be expressed without suffering itself to be disguised by the prejudices of man.
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On the evening of December 25, General Washington in a most severe season crossed the Delaware with a part of his army, then reduced to less than 2000 men in the whole.
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The study of the human character opens at once a beautiful and a deformed picture of the soul.
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To learn to die is an heroic work.
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But in the hero ne'er forget the man.
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A declaration of the independence of America, and the sovereignty of the United STates was drawn by the ingenious and philosophic pen of Thomas Jefferson, Esquire, a delegate from the state of Virginia
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