We hold these truths-- : and other words that made America / Paul Aron ; with illustrations by David Smith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Aron, Paul, 1956-

Contributor:

Smith, David.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Quotations, American.

United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Miscellanea.

United States.

History.

United States--Quotations, maxims, etc.

Genre:

Trivia and miscellanea.

Physical Description:

xiii, 242 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers : Distributed by National Book Network ; Williamsburg, Va. : In association with the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, [2008]

Contents:

1 Abigail Adams 1

Remember the Ladies

2 John Adams 9

Facts are stubborn things

The most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived

The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people

Thomas Jefferson survives

3 Anonymous 21

E Pluribus Unum

Yankee Doodle went to town

4 John Dickinson 27

By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall

United, we stand-Divided, we fall

5 Olaudah Equiano 33

The shrieks of the women, and the groans of the dying

6 Benjamin Franklin 41

Early to bed and early to rise

Let the experiment be made

Join, or Die

Don't tread on me

We must ... all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately

A republic if you can keep it

7 Nathan Hale 57

I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country

8 Alexander Hamilton 65

I never expect to see a perfect work from imperfect man

Your people is a great beast

9 John Hancock 73

I write so that King George III may read without his spectacles

10 Patrick Henry 81

If this be treason, make the most of it

Give me liberty, or give me death

11 Thomas Jefferson 89

We hold these truths to be self-evident

a wall of separation between church and state

I like a little rebellion now and then

a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government

We have the wolf by the ears

Is it the Fourth?

12 John Paul Jones 105

I have not yet begun to fight

13 Francis Scott Key 113

O! say can you see

In God is our Trust

14 James Madison 121

If men were angels, no government would be necessary

Congress shall make no law

15 John Marshall 131

An act of the legislature, repugnant to the Constitution, is void

The government of the Union is, emphatically and truly, a government of the people

The people made the Constitution, and the people can unmake it

16 George Mason 139

All men are by nature equally free and independent

17 James Otis 147

Taxation without representation is tyranny

No taxation without representation

18 Thomas Paine 155

We have it in our power to begin the world over again

These are the times that try men's souls

19 William Prescott 165

Don't fire till you see the whites of their eyes

20 Paul Revere 173

One, if by land, and two, if by sea

The British are coming

21 Tachnedorus 181

Who is there to mourn for Logan? Not one

22 George Washington 189

I can't tell a lie

I heard the bullets whistle

Their marches might be traced by the blood from their feet

If their citizens should not be completely free and happy, the fault will be entirely their own

My movement to the chair of government will be accompanied by feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to the place of his execution

entangling alliances with none

First in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen

23 Phillis Wheatley 205

In every human breast, God has implanted a principle, which we call love of freedom

24 James Wilson 213

We the people.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-234) and index.

ISBN:

0742562727

9780742562721

OCLC:

209652200