The Quotable Founding Fathers: A Treasury of 2,500 Wise and Witty Quotations from the Men and Women Who Created America [NOOK Book]

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Overview

No group is quoted-and misquoted-more often than America's founders. When a political controversy heats up, the nation's speechwriters, politicians, reporters, editorial writers, and talking heads try to influence the debate by quoting their words. Year in and year out, teachers and political buffs look to their wisdom to illuminate the issues. How much easier it would be to find every key quote by the founders in a single source. The Quotable Founding Fathers, edited by Buckner F. Melton, Jr., provides just that source-a compilation of some 2,500 quotes summing up the wit and wisdom of the founders. While some of these quotations can be found in general quotation compilations such as Bartlett's, these volumes offer only ...
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Overview

No group is quoted-and misquoted-more often than America's founders. When a political controversy heats up, the nation's speechwriters, politicians, reporters, editorial writers, and talking heads try to influence the debate by quoting their words. Year in and year out, teachers and political buffs look to their wisdom to illuminate the issues. How much easier it would be to find every key quote by the founders in a single source. The Quotable Founding Fathers, edited by Buckner F. Melton, Jr., provides just that source-a compilation of some 2,500 quotes summing up the wit and wisdom of the founders. While some of these quotations can be found in general quotation compilations such as Bartlett's, these volumes offer only a fraction of what's available.

The Quotable Founding Fathers mines deeper into the founders' essays, diaries, letters, speeches, and sermons to extract all the nuggets that are significant to the history of the country- and to the ongoing debate about the meaning of democracy in America.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781612342870
  • Publisher: Potomac Books Inc.
  • Publication date: 6/30/2005
  • Sold by: Barnes & Noble
  • Format: eBook
  • Sales rank: 783,213
  • File size: 2 MB

Meet the Author

Buckner F. Melton, Jr., J.D., Ph.D., taught history at Duke University, served on the faculty of the University of North Carolina School of Law, and is now Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at Mercer University in Macon, Georgia.

Table of Contents

Introduction ix
John Adams 1
John Quincy Adams 2
Samuel Adams 2
Advice & Advisors 3
Age & Aging 3
Aggression 6
Agriculture & Farming 6
Alcohol, Alcoholism, & Drunkenness 8
Ambition 9
America & Americanism 11
Anger 18
Appearances & Vanity 19
Argument & Debate 20
Benedict Arnold 20
Arts 20
Attention & Neglect 22
Bad Company 23
Baltimore 23
Banks & Banking 23
Bigotry 23
Bill of Rights 24
Books 25
Boston 25
Botany & Gardening 25
Bravery & Courage 26
Aaron Burr 26
Business & Trade 27
Change 30
Character 30
Charity 31
Children & Parenting 32
Cities 33
Civil Rights 34
Compromise & Moderation 34
Congress 34
Connecticut 35
Conscience 36
Consistency 37
Constitution 38
Corruption & Bribery 48
Crime & Punishment 48
Cynicism 49
Death 51
Declaration of Independence 53
Defamation & Personal Attacks 56
Democracy & Republicanism 57
Dependence 63
Difficulties & Adversity 63
Discipline 64
Due Process 65
Duty 66
Economics 67
Education 67
Elections & Politics 72
England (United Kingdom) 74
Envy & Malice 78
Equality & Equal Rights 78
Error 80
Excuses 81
Expansion & Manifest Destiny 81
Experience 82
Facts & Opinions 83
Faith 83
Family 83
First Settlers 84
The Flag 89
Flattery & Praise 89
Force & Coercion 90
Foreign Influence 92
Foreign Relations & Policy 92
France 96
Benjamin Franklin 97
Freedom 97
Freedom of Speech & Press 99
Friends & Friendship 104
Future 106
Abraham Alfonse Albert Galatin 107
Gambling 107
Geography 107
Georgia 108
God & Providence 108
Good & Evil 110
Government 110
Government Spending & Public Debt 124
Great Men & Statesmen 126
Greed 127
Guns & Weapons 127
Alexander Hamilton 128
Happiness 128
Health & Medicine 130
History 131
Honesty 133
Honor 133
Human Nature 134
Humanity 134
Humility 134
Hypocrisy 134
Immigration 136
Impeachment 137
Independence & National Freedom 137
Intelligence & Knowledge 142
Thomas Jefferson 145
John Paul Jones 146
Judiciary & the Courts 147
Juries 152
Justice 152
Kentucky 154
Kings & Aristocrats 154
Labor & Work 157
Language & Writing 158
Laws 160
Lawyers 165
Laziness & Sloth 168
Liberty 168
Lies & Falsehoods 176
Love 177
Luck & Good Fortune 178
James Madison 179
Majorities & Minorities 179
Manners 180
Marriage 181
Massachusetts 184
Means & Ends 184
Memory 184
Mercy & Compassion 184
Military & War 185
Modesty 196
Money 196
James Monroe 197
Morality & Moralists 198
Motives & Intentions 199
Native Americans 200
Natural Law 205
Nature & Wildlife 207
Necessity 208
New England 208
North Carolina 209
Thomas Paine 210
Passion 211
Patriotism 211
Patronage & Appointments 217
Peace 217
Pennsylvania 219
Perseverance & Determination 219
Pessimism & Optimism 220
Philosophy & Ethics 220
Pleasure & Pain 221
Political Parties & Factions 221
Posterity 223
Poverty & Economic Inequality 224
Power 226
Presidency 231
Pride & Vanity 233
Privacy 234
Progress 234
Property 234
Public Office 237
Public Opinion & Prejudice 239
Puritanism 242
Reason 243
Religion 244
Revolution & Rebellion 263
Rhode Island 280
Rights of the People 280
Search & Seizure 285
Secrecy & Discretion 286
Self-Discipline 287
Self-Interest 287
Self-Reliance 287
Separation of Power 288
Slavery & Race Relations 290
Solitude 302
Speeches & Oration 302
States' Rights & Federalism 302
Taxes 305
Theory & Practice 308
Time 308
Tobacco 309
Treason 309
Truth 310
Tyranny 311
Unity 314
Value 317
Vengence & Revenge 317
Vice Presidency 318
Virtue & Vice 319
War 321
George Washington 322
Witchcraft 323
Women 325
Youth 328
Names Index 329
Subject Index 339

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