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A collection of notable quotations from a variety of Early Modern Era individuals. See the Guide Letter Author Find Selected -all- # A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z -all- Abernethy, George (1) Adams, Abigail (2) Adams, John (98) Adams, John Quincy (11) Adams, Samuel (59) Addison, Joseph (20) Allen, Ethan (1) Ames, Fisher (9) Arbuthnot, John (11) Audubon, John James (56) Bacon, Francis (139) Bacon, Leonard (2) Bailey, Philip James (17) Barney, Joshua (1) Barnum, P. T. (6) Barron, James (1) Bartlett, Josiah (4) Blackmore, Richard (2) Blackstone, William (1) Boileau-Despreaux, Nicolas (5) Boleyn, Anne (7) Bolton, Sarah T. (2) Bond, George Phillips (3) Boone, Daniel (20) Braxton, Carter (1) Brooks, John (1) Buchanan, James (6) Bunyan, John (1) Buonarroti, Philippe (1) Burney, Charles (4) Butler, Pierce (1) Butler, William Allen (2) Calhoun, John C. (8) Carroll, Charles (1) Cass, Lewis (2) Chapman, George (5) Chase, Samuel (3) Clark, Abraham (2) Clark, George Rogers (3) Clarke, James Freeman (10) Clay, Henry (11) Clulow, William Benton (25) Clymer, George (4) Coleridge, Hartley (3) Colt, Samuel (1) Congreve, William (30) Copernicus, Nicolaus (3) Coxe, Tench (1) Crockett, Davy (25) Decatur, Stephen (1) Diderot, Denis (10) Ellery, William (13) Ellsworth, Oliver (12) Emerson, Ralph Waldo (13) Fillmore, Millard (5) Fitch, John (2) Flaubert, Gustave (36) Floyd, William (1) Franklin, Benjamin (255) Fulton, Robert (4) Gadsden, Christopher (11) Gallatin, Albert (1) Gaon, Vilna (2) Garrison, William Lloyd (1) Geary, John W. (4) Gerry, Elbridge (1) Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (2) Goya, Francisco (8) Grotius, Hugo (3) Hale, Nathan (2) Hale, Sarah Josepha (3) Halley, Edmond (4) Hamilton, Alexander (100) Hammon, Jupiter (25) Hancock, John (2) Harrison, William Henry (10) Hawthorne, Nathaniel (37) Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich (22) Henry (13) Henry, Patrick (19) Hitchcock, Ethan A. (5) Hobbes, Thomas (15) Hooper, William (4) Hopkins, Stephen (1) Hopkinson, Francis (1) Hull, William (3) Jackson, Andrew (50) Jay, John (7) Jefferson, Thomas (244) Johnston, Zachariah (1) Jomini, Antoine-Henri (9) Jones, John Paul (9) Jouett, Jack (1) Kemble, Fanny (1) Kennedy, John P. (1) Knox, Henry (11) Krylov, Ivan (2) L'Estrange, Roger (58) Laplace, Pierre-Simon (4) Lee, Francis Lightfoot (6) Lee, Richard Henry (4) Leszczynski, Stanislaw (10) Lincoln, Benjamin (1) Louis (23) Lyon, Matthew (1) Maclure, William (1) Madison, James (182) Marion, Francis (1) Marshall, John (2) Mason, George (22) Middleton, Arthur (3) Monroe, James (22) Moore, Thomas (25) Moreau, Gustave (5) Morgan, Daniel (7) Morris, Gouverneur (4) Morris, Lewis (1) Morton, John (1) Mott, Lucretia (8) Muhlenberg, Peter (1) Nashe, Thomas (14) Nerval, Gerard de (1) Newton, Isaac (7) O'Sullivan, John L. (1) Oken, Lorenz (5) Otis, James (4) Overbury, Thomas (10) Page, John (1) Paine, Thomas (88) Parker, John (1) Penn, William (19) Perry, Oliver Hazard (1) Pierce, William (2) Pike, Zebulon (32) Pinckney, Charles Cotesworth (2) Poe, Edgar Allan (39) Polk, James K. (14) Pope, Alexander (85) Pushkin, Alexander (47) Rabutin-Chantal, Marie de (5) Red Jacket (3) Reed, Joseph (1) Rice, David (1) Richardson, Jonathan (5) Richardson, Samuel (17) Roberts, Bartholomew (1) Roscoe, William (1) Ross, Betsy (1) Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (66) Rush, Benjamin (7) Ruskin, John (10) Rutledge, Edward (4) Schiller, Friedrich (2) Scott, Walter (1) Sherman, Roger (6) Smith, John (1) Souvre, Madeleine de (27) Spenser, Edmund (3) Steele, Richard (15) Stone, Thomas (2) Story, Joseph (20) Swift, Jonathan (1) Taylor, Zachary (2) Tecumseh (11) Tennyson, Alfred, Lord (46) Thackeray, William Makepeace (10) Thoreau, Henry David (266) Timrod, Henry (3) Trapp, John (5) Travis, William B. (2) Tyler, John (5) Van Buren, Martin (29) Vancouver, George (3) Vespucci, Amerigo (1) Voltaire (20) Walpole, Robert (27) Warren, Joseph (2) Warren, Mercy Otis (1) Washington, George (153) Waterhouse, Benjamin (2) Wayne, Anthony (4) Webster, Daniel (42) Webster, Noah (6) Wesley, John (25) Whipple, William (8) Whittier, John Greenleaf (16) Wigglesworth, Edward (4) Williams, Samuel (1) Wilson, James (19) Winthrop, John (1) Wirt, William (2) Witherspoon, John (7) Wolcott, Oliver (3) Wolsey, Thomas (4) Wycherley, William (13)
Letter Author Find Selected -all- # A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z -all- Abernethy, George (1) Adams, Abigail (2) Adams, John (98) Adams, John Quincy (11) Adams, Samuel (59) Addison, Joseph (20) Allen, Ethan (1) Ames, Fisher (9) Arbuthnot, John (11) Audubon, John James (56) Bacon, Francis (139) Bacon, Leonard (2) Bailey, Philip James (17) Barney, Joshua (1) Barnum, P. T. (6) Barron, James (1) Bartlett, Josiah (4) Blackmore, Richard (2) Blackstone, William (1) Boileau-Despreaux, Nicolas (5) Boleyn, Anne (7) Bolton, Sarah T. (2) Bond, George Phillips (3) Boone, Daniel (20) Braxton, Carter (1) Brooks, John (1) Buchanan, James (6) Bunyan, John (1) Buonarroti, Philippe (1) Burney, Charles (4) Butler, Pierce (1) Butler, William Allen (2) Calhoun, John C. (8) Carroll, Charles (1) Cass, Lewis (2) Chapman, George (5) Chase, Samuel (3) Clark, Abraham (2) Clark, George Rogers (3) Clarke, James Freeman (10) Clay, Henry (11) Clulow, William Benton (25) Clymer, George (4) Coleridge, Hartley (3) Colt, Samuel (1) Congreve, William (30) Copernicus, Nicolaus (3) Coxe, Tench (1) Crockett, Davy (25) Decatur, Stephen (1) Diderot, Denis (10) Ellery, William (13) Ellsworth, Oliver (12) Emerson, Ralph Waldo (13) Fillmore, Millard (5) Fitch, John (2) Flaubert, Gustave (36) Floyd, William (1) Franklin, Benjamin (255) Fulton, Robert (4) Gadsden, Christopher (11) Gallatin, Albert (1) Gaon, Vilna (2) Garrison, William Lloyd (1) Geary, John W. (4) Gerry, Elbridge (1) Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (2) Goya, Francisco (8) Grotius, Hugo (3) Hale, Nathan (2) Hale, Sarah Josepha (3) Halley, Edmond (4) Hamilton, Alexander (100) Hammon, Jupiter (25) Hancock, John (2) Harrison, William Henry (10) Hawthorne, Nathaniel (37) Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich (22) Henry (13) Henry, Patrick (19) Hitchcock, Ethan A. (5) Hobbes, Thomas (15) Hooper, William (4) Hopkins, Stephen (1) Hopkinson, Francis (1) Hull, William (3) Jackson, Andrew (50) Jay, John (7) Jefferson, Thomas (244) Johnston, Zachariah (1) Jomini, Antoine-Henri (9) Jones, John Paul (9) Jouett, Jack (1) Kemble, Fanny (1) Kennedy, John P. (1) Knox, Henry (11) Krylov, Ivan (2) L'Estrange, Roger (58) Laplace, Pierre-Simon (4) Lee, Francis Lightfoot (6) Lee, Richard Henry (4) Leszczynski, Stanislaw (10) Lincoln, Benjamin (1) Louis (23) Lyon, Matthew (1) Maclure, William (1) Madison, James (182) Marion, Francis (1) Marshall, John (2) Mason, George (22) Middleton, Arthur (3) Monroe, James (22) Moore, Thomas (25) Moreau, Gustave (5) Morgan, Daniel (7) Morris, Gouverneur (4) Morris, Lewis (1) Morton, John (1) Mott, Lucretia (8) Muhlenberg, Peter (1) Nashe, Thomas (14) Nerval, Gerard de (1) Newton, Isaac (7) O'Sullivan, John L. (1) Oken, Lorenz (5) Otis, James (4) Overbury, Thomas (10) Page, John (1) Paine, Thomas (88) Parker, John (1) Penn, William (19) Perry, Oliver Hazard (1) Pierce, William (2) Pike, Zebulon (32) Pinckney, Charles Cotesworth (2) Poe, Edgar Allan (39) Polk, James K. (14) Pope, Alexander (85) Pushkin, Alexander (47) Rabutin-Chantal, Marie de (5) Red Jacket (3) Reed, Joseph (1) Rice, David (1) Richardson, Jonathan (5) Richardson, Samuel (17) Roberts, Bartholomew (1) Roscoe, William (1) Ross, Betsy (1) Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (66) Rush, Benjamin (7) Ruskin, John (10) Rutledge, Edward (4) Schiller, Friedrich (2) Scott, Walter (1) Sherman, Roger (6) Smith, John (1) Souvre, Madeleine de (27) Spenser, Edmund (3) Steele, Richard (15) Stone, Thomas (2) Story, Joseph (20) Swift, Jonathan (1) Taylor, Zachary (2) Tecumseh (11) Tennyson, Alfred, Lord (46) Thackeray, William Makepeace (10) Thoreau, Henry David (266) Timrod, Henry (3) Trapp, John (5) Travis, William B. (2) Tyler, John (5) Van Buren, Martin (29) Vancouver, George (3) Vespucci, Amerigo (1) Voltaire (20) Walpole, Robert (27) Warren, Joseph (2) Warren, Mercy Otis (1) Washington, George (153) Waterhouse, Benjamin (2) Wayne, Anthony (4) Webster, Daniel (42) Webster, Noah (6) Wesley, John (25) Whipple, William (8) Whittier, John Greenleaf (16) Wigglesworth, Edward (4) Williams, Samuel (1) Wilson, James (19) Winthrop, John (1) Wirt, William (2) Witherspoon, John (7) Wolcott, Oliver (3) Wolsey, Thomas (4) Wycherley, William (13)
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I shall begin my march for Camp tomorrow morning. It was not in my power to move until I could procure shoes for the troops almost barefoot.
— Anthony Wayne Issue the orders Sir, and I will storm Hell.
— Anthony Wayne Our officers and men behaved like men who are determined to be free.
— Anthony Wayne Upon the whole it was a Glorious day-Our men are in the Spirits-and I am confident we shall give them a total defeat the next Action; which is at no great distance.
— Anthony Wayne
