We hold these truths--
Subtitle: and other words that made America
By: Paul Aron ; with illustrations by David Smith
Contributors: Smith, David; Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
Edition: 1st pbk. ed.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9780742562738
Copyright date: 2008
Subjects: American Quotations; Miscellanea; History; Quotations, maxims
Description: We Hold These Truths. ... presents 54 historically powerful quotes from the country's founders and founding documents and provides rich narratives that highlight their astounding, and generally unknown, origins. --publisher.
Notes: "In association with the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-234) and index.
Table of contents: title: Abigail Adams : "Remember the ladies"; title: John Adams : "Facts are stubborn things" ; "[T]he most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived" ; The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people" ; "Thomas Jefferson survives"; title: Anonymous : "E Pluribus Unum" ; "Yankee Doodle went to town"; title: John Dickinson : "By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall" ; "United, we stand; title: Divided, we fall"; title: Olaudah Equiano : "The shrieks of the women, and the groans of the dying"; title: Benjamin Franklin : "Early to bed and early to rise" ; Let the experiment be made" ; "Join, or die" ; "We must ... all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately" ; "A republic if you can keep it; title: Nathan Hale : "I regret that I have but one life to lose for my country"; title: Alexander Hamilton: "I never expect to see a perfect work from imperfect man" ; "Your people is a great beast"; title: John Hancock: "I write so that King George III may read without his spectacles"; title: Patrick Henry: "If this be treason, make the most of it" ; " Give me liberty, or give me death"; title: Thomas Jefferson: "We hold these truths to be self-evident" ; " a wall of separation between church and state" ; "I like a little rebellion now and then" ; "a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government" ; "We have the wolf by the ears" ; "Is it the fourth?"; title: John Paul Jones: "I have not yet begun to fight."; title: Francis Scott Key: "O! say can you see" ; "In God is our trust"; title: James Madison: "If men were angels, no government would be necessary" ; "Congress shall make no law"; title: John Marshall: "An act of the legislature, repugnant to the Constitution, is void" ; "The government of the Union is, emphatically and truly a government of the people" ; "The people made the Constitution, and the people can unmake it"; title: George Mason: "All men are by nature equally free and independent"; title: James Otis: "Taxation without representation is tyranny" ; "No taxation without representation"; title: Thomas Paine: "We have it in our power to begin the world over again" ; "These are the times that try men's souls"; title: William Prescott: "Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes"; title: Paul Revere: "One, if by land, and two, if by sea" ; "The British are coming"; title: Tachnedorus: "Who is there to mourn for Logan? Not one"; title: George Washington: "I can't tell a lie" ; "I heard the bullets whistle" ; "their marches might be traced by the blood from their feet" ; "If their citizens should not be completely free and happy, the fault will be entirely their own" ; "My movement to the chair of government will be accompanied by feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to the place of his execution" ; "First in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen"; title: Phillis Wheatley: "In every human breast, God has implanted a principle, which we call love of freedom"; title: James Wilson: "We the people."