"Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt."
-Samuel Adams, essay in The Public Advertiser, 1749
"It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and animate their industry and activity; to excite in them an habitual contempt of meanness, abhorrence of injustice and inhumanity, and an ambition to excel in every capacity, faculty, and virtue. If we suffer their minds to grovel and creep in infancy, they will grovel all their lives."
-John Adams, Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law, 1756
"The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, New Englanders are no more. I AM NOT A VIRGINIAN, BUT AN AMERICAN!"
-Patrick Henry, n.d.
"There, I guess King George will be able to read that."
-John Hancock, Remark, July 4, 1776
Here we will take you back in time.....show you everything people had to go through.....what people had to do....the way the American Revolution turned into a succes....
Do you think that the independence from England was a good decision?
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- The Declaration Of Independence by Thomas Jefferson
- Crossing the Delaware River
- Writing The Declaration of Independence....Kind of
- Declaring Indepencence
- Thomas Paine and Common Sense
- Loyalits and Patriots
- Continental Congress Video
- 2nd Continental Congress
- Lexington and Concord
- 1st Continental Congress
- The Intolerable Acts
- The Boston Tea Party
- The Boston Massacre
- Patrick Henry
- John Adams Before The Revolution
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