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| 1. The die is now cast; the colonies must either submit or triumph.... we must not retreat. | King George III |
| 2. If the British went out by water, to show two lanterns in the North Church steeple; and if by land, one as a signal, for we were apprehensive it would be difficult to cross the Charles River or get over Boston Neck. | Paul Revere |
| 3. The shot heard round the world. | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| 4. What a glorious morning for America. | Samuel Adams |
| 5. At Fort Ticonderoga, the British commander gazed at us in bewildered astonishment. “By whose authority do you act?” exclaimed he. “In the name of the great Jehovah, and the Continental Congress!” I replied. | Ethan Allen |
| 6. Don’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes. | Captain John Sterk |
| 7. In the new Code of Laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors. | Abigail Adams |
| 8. The colonies are and ought to be independent of Britain. | Richard Henry Lee |
| 9. 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; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness | Thomas Jefferson |
| 10. We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately. | Ben Franklin |
| 11. This day of July, 1776 will be the most memorable epoch in the history of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival. It ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations, from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forward forever more. | John Adams |
| 12. There! His Majesty can now read my name without glasses. And he can double the reward on my head! | John Hancock |
| 13. If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace. | Thomas Paine |
| 14. Neglected by Congress below, distressed with the small-pox; want of Generals and discipline in our Army, which may rather be called a great rabble, our credit and reputation lost, and great part of the country; and a powerful foreign enemy advancing upon us, are so many difficulties we cannot surmount them. | Benedict Arnold |
| 15. The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army -- Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; this is all we can expect -- We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die. | George Washington |
| 16. Yonder are the Hessians. They were bought for seven pounds and tenpence a man. Are you worth more? Prove it. Tonight the American flag floats from yonder hill or Molly Stark sleeps a widow! | John Stark |
| 17. I regret that I have but one life to lose for my country. | Nathan Hale |
| 18. These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph | Thomas Pane |
| 19. Let justice be done though the heavens should fall. | Paul Finklemen |
| 20. Liberty, the greatest of all earthly blessings -- give us that precious jewel, and you may take every thing else! Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. | Patrick Henry |
| 21. I have not yet begun to fight. | John Paul Jones |
| Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country. | Marguss de Lafeyette |
| 23. We fight, get beat, rise, and fight again. | Nathaniel Greene |
| and were I young again, should still be a warrior while ever this country should be invaded and I lived. | Daniel Morgan |
| 25. No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent. | John Joy |
| Humanity | the quality of being humane all of the living human inhabitants of the earth |
