Title The quotable founding fathers : a treasury of 2,500 wise and witty quotations from the men and women who created America / edited by Buckner F. Melton, Jr. ; research assistant, Jane Garry

Edition First edition Published Dulles, Virginia : Brassey's Inc., 2004 ©2004

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 345 pages) Contents John Adams -- John Quincy Adams -- Samuel Adams -- Advice & Advisors -- Age & Aging -- Aggression -- Agriculture & Farming -- Alcohol, Alcoholism, & Drunkenness -- Ambition -- America & Americanism -- Anger -- Appearances & Vanity -- Argument & Debate -- Benedict Arnold -- Arts -- Attention & Neglect -- Bad Company -- Baltimore -- Banks & Banking -- Bigotry -- Bill of Rights -- Boston -- Botany & Gardening -- Bravery & Courage -- Aaron Burr -- Business & Trade -- Change -- Character -- Charity -- Children & Parenting -- Cities -- Civil Rights -- Compromise & Moderation -- Congress -- Connecticut -- Conscience -- Consistency -- Constitution -- Corruption & Bribery -- Crime & Punishment -- Cynicism -- Death -- Declaration of Independence -- Defamation & Personal Attacks -- Democracy & Republicanism -- Dependence -- Difficulties & Adversity -- Discipline -- Due Process -- Duty -- Economics -- Education -- Elections & Politics -- England (United Kingdom) -- Envy & Malice -- Equality & Equal Rights -- Error -- Excuses -- Expansion & Manifest Destiny -- Experience -- Facts & Opinions -- Faith -- Family -- First Settlers -- The Flag -- Flattery & Praise -- Force & Coercion -- Foreign Influence -- Foreign Relations & Policy -- France -- Benjamin Franklin -- Freedom -- Freedom of Speech & Press -- Friends & Friendship -- Future -- Abraham Alfonse Albert Galatin -- Gambling -- Geography Summary Contains a collection of twenty-five hundred quotations about the meaning of democracy from the men and women who created America and contains excerpts from their own essays diaries, letters, speeches, and sermons Notes Includes indexes Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes Notes Print version record Subject Founding Fathers of the United States -- Quotations National characteristics, American -- Quotations, maxims, etc Social values -- United States -- Quotations, maxims, etc Quotations, American. Statesmen -- United States -- Quotations Presidents -- United States -- Quotations National characteristics, American Politics and government Presidents Quotations, American Social values Statesmen SUBJECT United States -- Politics and government -- Philosophy -- Quotations, maxims, etc United States -- Politics and government -- 1775-1783 -- Quotations, maxims, etc United States -- Politics and government -- 1783-1865 -- Quotations, maxims, etc Subject United States Genre/Form Quotations Form Electronic book Author Melton, Buckner F., Jr., 1962- ISBN 9781435610347 1435610342 9781574886092 1574886096

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