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American Revolution: Words of War
Read and research the following quotes and determine who should be given credit for saying or writing these famous, important, or influential words.
1. The die is now cast; the colonies must either submit or triumph.... we must not retreat. ______
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. ______
3. The shot heard round the world. ______
4. What a glorious morning for America. ______
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. ______
6. Don’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes. ______
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. ______
8. The colonies are and ought to be independent of Britain. ______
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. ______
10. We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately. ______
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. ______
12. There! His Majesty can now read my name without glasses. And he can double the reward on my head! ______
13. If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace. ______
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. ______
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. ______
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! ______
17. I regret that I have but one life to lose for my country. ______
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. ______
19. Let justice be done though the heavens should fall. ______
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. ______
21. I have not yet begun to fight. ______
22. Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country. ______
23. We fight, get beat, rise, and fight again. ______
24. As to war, I am and always was a great enemy, at the same time a warrior the greater part of my life and were I young again, should still be a warrior while ever this country should be invaded and I lived. ______
25. No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent. ______
Name Bank (two will be used twice):
Daniel Morgan John Jay George III Ethan Allen John Paul Jones
Nathanael Greene Benedict Arnold William Prescott Thomas Paine Ralph Waldo Emerson
George Washington Patrick Henry Paul Revere Sam Adams Marquis de Lafayette
Abigail Adams Nathan Hale Ben Franklin John Adams Richard Henry Lee
John Hancock John Stark Thomas Jefferson