The quotable founding fathers : a treasury of 2,500 wise and witty quotations from the men and women who created America / edited by Buckner F. Melton, Jr.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Melton, Buckner F., Jr., 1962- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Founding Fathers of the United States--Quotations.

Founding Fathers of the United States.

National characteristics, American--Quotations, maxims, etc.

National characteristics, American.

Social values--United States--Quotations, maxims, etc.

Social values.

Quotations, American.

United States--Politics and government--Philosophy--Quotations, maxims, etc.

United States.

United States--Politics and government--1775-1783--Quotations, maxims, etc.

United States--Politics and government--1783-1865--Quotations, maxims, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (362 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Washington, District of Columbia : Potomac Books Inc., 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

No group is quoted--and misquoted--more often than America’s founders. When a political controversy heats up, the nation’s speechwriters, politicians, reporters, editorial writers, and talking heads try to influence the debate by quoting their words. Year in and year out, teachers and political buffs look to their wisdom to illuminate the issues. How much easier it would be to find every key quote by the founders in a single source. The Quotable Founding Fathers, edited by Buckner F. Melton, Jr., provides just that source--a compilation of some 2,500 quotes summing up the wit and wisdom of the founders. While some of these quotations can be found in general quotation compilations such as Bartlett’s, these volumes offer only a fraction of what’s available. The Quotable Founding Fathers mines deeper into the founders’ essays, diaries, letters, speeches, and sermons to extract all the nuggets that are significant to the history of the country--and to the ongoing debate about the meaning of democracy in America.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Introduction; John Adams; John Quincy Adams; Samuel Adams; Advice & Advisors; Age & Aging; Aggression; Agriculture & Farming; Alcohol, Alcoholism, & Drunkenness; Ambition; America & Americanism; Anger; Appearances & Vanity; Argument & Debate; Benedict Arnold; Arts; Attention & Neglect; Bad Company; Baltimore; Banks & Banking; Bigotry; Bill of Rights; Books; Boston; Botany & Gardening; Bravery & Courage; Aaron Burr; Business & Trade; Change; Character; Charity; Children & Parenting; Cities; Civil Rights; Compromise & Moderation; Congress; Connecticut; Conscience; Consistency

ConstitutionCorruption & Bribery; Crime & Punishment; Cynicism; Death; Declaration of Independence; Defamation & Personal Attacks; Democracy & Republicanism; Dependence; Difficulties & Adversity; Discipline; Due Process; Duty; Economics; Education; Elections & Politics; England (United Kingdom); Envy & Malice; Equality & Equal Rights; Error; Excuses; Expansion & Manifest Destiny; Experience; Facts & Opinions; Faith; Family; First Settlers; The Flag; Flattery & Praise; Force & Coercion; Foreign Influence; Foreign Relations & Policy; France; Benjamin Franklin; Freedom; Freedom of Speech & Press

Friends & FriendshipFuture; Abraham Alfonse Albert Galatin; Gambling; Geography; Georgia; God & Providence; Good & Evil; Government; Government Spending & Public Debt; Great Men & Statesmen; Greed; Guns & Weapons; Alexander Hamilton; Happiness; Health & Medicine; History; Honesty; Honor; Human Nature; Humanity; Humility; Hypocrisy; Immigration; Impeachment; Independence & National Freedom; Intelligence & Knowledge; Thomas Jefferson; John Paul Jones; Judiciary & the Courts; Juries; Justice; Kentucky; Kings & Aristocrats; Labor & Work; Language & Writing; Laws; Lawyers; Laziness & Sloth

LibertyLies & Falsehoods; Love; Luck & Good Fortune; James Madison; Majorities & Minorities; Manners; Marriage; Massachusetts; Means & Ends; Memory; Mercy & Compassion; Military & War; Modesty; Money; James Monroe; Morality & Moralists; Motives & Intentions; Native Americans; Natural Law; Nature & Wildlife; Necessity; New England; North Carolina; Thomas Paine; Passion; Patriotism; Patronage & Appointments; Peace; Pennsylvania; Perseverance & Determination; Pessimism & Optimism; Philosophy & Ethics; Pleasure & Pain; Political Parties & Factions; Posterity; Poverty & Economic Inequality; Power

PresidencyPride & Vanity; Privacy; Progress; Property; Public Office; Public Opinion & Prejudice; Puritanism; Reason; Religion; Revolution & Rebellion; Rhode Island; Rights of the People; Search & Seizure; Secrecy & Discretion; Self-Discipline; Self-Interest; Self-Reliance; Separation of Power; Slavery & Race Relations; Solitude; Speeches & Oration; States' Rights & Federalism; Taxes; Theory & Practice; Time; Tobacco; Treason; Truth; Tyranny; Unity; Value; Vengence & Revenge; Vice Presidency; Virtue & Vice; War; George Washington; Witchcraft; Women; Youth; Names Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H

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Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Includes indexes.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-61234-287-6

1-4356-1034-2

OCLC:

782877832