Skip to content

This year, my Friend, is big with mighty events. Nothing less than the fate of America depends on the virtue of her sons, and if they do not have virtue enough to support the most Glorious Cause ever human beings were engaged in, they don’t deserve the blessings of freedom.

— William Whipple

Another quote →

More quotes by William Whipple

A recommendation is gone thither for raising some regiments of Blacks. This, I suppose will lay a foundation for the emancipation of those wretches in that country. I hope it will be the means of dispensing the blessings of Freedom to all the human race in America.

[I]f they do not have virtue enough to support the most Glorious Cause ever human beings were engaged in, they don’t deserve the blessings of freedom.

All William Whipple quotes →

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: William Whipple (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.