Political literatureWe 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.Declaration of Independence1776★ 10.0
Economic literatureIt is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.Adam SmithThe Wealth of Nations · 1776★ 9.9
Poem · Philosophical literatureAnd with the guts of the last priest Let's wring the neck of the last king.Denis Diderot1772★ 9.6
Political literatureWhen in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.Declaration of Independence1776★ 8.9
Economic literatureEvery individual necessarily labours to render the annual revenue of the society as great as he can. He generally, indeed, neither intends to promote the public interest, nor knows how much he is promoting it... he intends only his own security... and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention.Adam SmithThe Wealth of Nations · 1776★ 7.2
Pamphlet · Political literatureBut where says some is the king of America?...In America the law is king.Thomas PaineCommon Sense · 1776★ 7.2
Play · Tragedy (play) · TragedyOne lives but once in this world.Johann Wolfgang von GoetheClavigo · 1774★ 7.1
BiographyPatriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.Samuel JohnsonJames Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D · 1778★ 7.1
Pamphlet · Political literatureIf there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.Thomas PaineThe Crisis · 1776★ 7.0
Speech · Political speechParties must ever exist in a free country.Edmund BurkeOn Conciliation with America · 1775★ 7.0
Speech · Political speechEvery human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.Edmund BurkeOn Conciliation with America · 1775★ 6.9
Political literatureThese 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 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. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed, if so celestial and article as Freedom should not be highly rated.Thomas PaineThe American Crisis · 1776★ 6.9
Hymn · SongAmazing grace! how sweet the sound That saved a wretch like me! I once was lost, but now am found, Was blind, but now I see.John NewtonAmazing Grace · 1779★ 6.9
Pamphlet · Political literatureThe cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind.Thomas PaineCommon Sense · 1776★ 6.4
Political literatureThat these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved.Declaration of Independence1776★ 6.1
Political literatureAnd for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.Declaration of Independence1776★ 5.5
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