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| Abigail Adams | "I desire that you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors."." |
| Patrick Henry | "Give me liberty, or give me death!" |
| John Paul Jones | "I have not yet begun to fight!" |
| Declaration of Independence | "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights..." |
| Abraham Lincoln in the Gettysburg Address | "Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty..." |
| Preamble of the Constitution of the U.S. | "We the people, in order to form a more perfect union..." |
| Francis Scott Key, "The Star-Spangled Banner" | "O say! can you see, by the dawn's early light, what so proudly we hail'd at the twilight's last gleaming..." |
| Thomas Jefferson | "Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God." |
| Thomas Hale | "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country." |
| Thomas Paine in "Common Sense" | "These are the times that try men's souls..." |
| First line of an African American Spiritual | "Swing low, sweet chariot, Coming for to carry me home..." |
| Abraham Lincoln in 1858, quoting a verse from the gospel of St. Mark | "A house divided against itself cannot stand." |
| Sojourner Truth | "Ain't I a woman?" |
| Abraham Lincoln in the Emancipation Proclamation | "...That on the 1st day of January...1863...all persons helad as slaves...shall be then...forever free..." |
| Robert E. Lee | "There is nothing left to do but to go see General Grant, and I would rather die a thousand deaths." |
| Thomas Paine in "The Crisis" | "The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot.." |
