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Montesquieu- French philosopher “There is no nation so powerful as the one that obeys its laws not from principles of fear or reason, but from passion.”
That only a nation that follows the laws and knows where the separation of power should be. -
“What a glorious morning for America!”
Samuel Adams, on hearing of the battle at Lexington, 1775
After the war they all felt glorious from everything that happened during the war. -
Many aspects of the enlightenment influenced the american revolution by creating a better and more stable government for america, The enlightenment made people voice out their desire to have more rights, during this the enlightenment gave a representative that would represent the people; demonstrates, The change in American society about egalitarianism. first document to explain egalitarianism and this is one way it is an example of democracy in the world. -
“We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.”― Benjamin Franklin
They must hang together and not fall apart because if they do, they will lose the battle. -
Francis bacon- english philosopher
“We cannot conceive of any end or limit to the world, but always as of necessity it occurs to us that there is something beyond.”
There's something beyond the end. we can find the limit to the world and find something beyond it. -
Thomas Hobbes - English philosopher“Men look at the greatness of the evil past, but the greatness of the good to follow”
It was to look at their past battles and all the evil they had to endure. Now that the evil past is gone, good greatness will follow. -
“If you were lost for America, there is nobody who could keep the army and the revolution [going] for six months.”
Marquis de Lafayette to George Washington, 1777
if they lost america the war wouldn't have gone for six months. -
John Locke- English philosopher “to love truth for truth’s sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed - plot of all other virtues.”
That people should follow the truth and only the truth which is a principal part of the human world to make it perfect. -
“The Army, as usual, are without pay; and a great part of the soldiery without shirts; and though the patience of them is equally threadbare, the States seem perfectly indifferent to their cries.”
George Washington, 1783
The army states they are in a cry for help there soldiers don't get played anymore and they are battling without armor or clothes same with their people in the towns there no different.