Quotes Flashcards
Outline one quote from Patrick Henry.
“No taxation without representation.”
Outline one quote from George the 3rd.
“A traitor is everyone who does not agree with me.”
Outline one quote from Sam Addams Circular Letter.
“Acts made there, imposing duties on the people of the this province, with the sole and express purpose of raising revenue, are infringements of their natural and constitutional rights.”
Outline two quotes from Dickinson’s Letters From a Farmer.
“My dear countrymen rouse yourselves and behold the ruin hanging over your heads.”
“But to lay those duties on the articles which she prohibits us to manufacture- and the tragedy of American liberty is finished.”
Outline two quotes from Paine’s Common Sense.
“Society is produced by our wants, and governments by our wickedness.”
“Common sense will tell us, that the power which hath endeavoured to subdue us, is of all others the most improper to defend us.”
Outline one quote from Franklin.
“Join or die.”
Outline one historical interpretation of the Declaration of Independence by Wood.
“The Declaration set forth a philosophy of human rights that was essential in giving the American revolution a universal appeal.”
Outline one historical interpretation the American revolution by Boorstin.
“The American revolution was a victory of constitutionalism that sought to demand existing rights, not encourage social conflict.”
Outline one historical interpretation of the enlightenment by Soboul.
“The enlightenment undermined the ideological foundations of the established order.”
Outline one historical interpretation of the role of the monarch in the French revolution by Furet.
“This honourable King, with his simple nature, ill adapted to the role he had to assume and the history that awaited him.”
Outline one quote from Lafayette in the Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen.
“When the government violates the peoples rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each portion of the people, the most sacred rights of indispensable of duties.”
Outline one quote from Sieyes “What is the 3rd Estate?”
“What has the 3rd estate been hitherto in the political order? Nothing. What does it desire to be? Something.”
Outline one quote from Bailly.
“The nation, once assembled, cannot be given orders.”
Outline one quote from Rousseau on the church.
“Christianity preaches only servitude and dependence. Its spirt is so favourable to tyranny that it always profits by such a regime.”
Outline one quote from Calonne at the Assembly of Notables.
“I shall show easily that it is impossible to tax further, ruinous to be always borrowing and not enough to confine ourselves to the measures of the economy.”
