Final Quotes Flashcards
- Christopher Columbus
Native Americans are primitive, would be good servants and Christians
- Martin Luther
Sale of indulgences is corrupt.
- Thomas Jefferson
Declaration of Independence - people have rights and the power to overthrow the government
- Thomas Hobbes
Natural laws
Lafayette
Based on the Declaration of Independence - focused on liberty and freedom
Simón Bolivar
Choose the gov that is most likely to succeed
Isaac Newton
If I have seen farther, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.”
Oliver Cromwell
Telling parliament to leave
Adam Smith
Market is natural, argues against mercantilism
John Locke
We all have freedoms and should not take them away from each other
Dom Pedro I
Declaring Brazil separate from Portugal; slavery is evil
William Wilberforce
Discussing and describing slavery
Mary Wollstonecraft
Treat women like the rational creatures they are
Mary Wollstonecraft
Treat women like the rational creatures they are
Karl Marx
Communist Manifesto; history of class struggles
Niccolò Machiavelli
Is it better to be feared or loved? The ends justify the means; no use for moral codes in politics
John Newton
Through many danger, toils, and snares I have already come.
Samuel Seabury
Against the Revolutionary Wars