Albigence Waldo: Diary, December 11-29, 1777 Mankind are never truly thankful for the Benefits of life, until they have experience’d the...

Albigence Waldo: Diary, December 11-29, 1777: People who live at home in Luxury and Ease, quietly possessing their habitations, Enjoying...

William Digby: Journal, July 24-October 13, 1777 …but alas! This life is a constant rotation of changes; and the man, who forms the...

Abigail Adams to John Adams Posterity who are to reap the Blessings, will scarcely be able to conceive the Hardships and Sufferings of...

Thomas Paine: The American Crisis, Number 1: I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow...

Thomas Paine: The American Crisis, Number 1 There is a natural firmness in some minds which cannot be unlocked by trifles, but which,...

Thomas Paine: The American Crisis, Number 1 These are the times that try men’s souls: The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will,...

Benjamin Franklin to Lord Howe: To me it seems that neither the obtaining or retaining of any Trade, how valuable soever, is an Object...

Ambrose Serle: Journal, July 12-23, 1776: The Congress have at length thought it convenient to throw off the Mask. Their Declaration of...

John Adams to Abigail Adams: But the Day is past. The Second Day of July 1776, will be the most memorable Epoch, in the History of...

Abigail Adams to John Adams: I was struck with General Washington. You had prepaired me to entertain a favorable opinion of him, but I...

John Adams to Abigail Adams: We have appointed a continental Fast. Millions will be upon their Knees at once before their great Creator,...

John Adams to Abigail Adams: "But America is a great, unwieldy Body. Its Progress must be slow. It is like a large Fleet sailing under...

George Washington: Address to the Continental Congress, June 16, 1775: “Mr. President, Tho’ I am truly sensible of the high Honour done...

John Dickinson to Arthur Lee: We are a united, resolved people; are, or quickly shall be, well armed and disciplined; our smith’s and...

It is also reported that Xerxes had left his tent to Mardonios when he fled from Hellas, and that when Pausanias saw these quarters of...

After Artabazos had taken Olynthos, he ambitiously turned his thoughts to Poteidaia, and as he did, he found that Timoxeinos, the general...

For the Andrians were the first of the islanders from whom Themistokles had demanded money and who had refused to pay him. Themistokles...

Now a few deserters from Arcadia had come to them who needed to make a living and wanted employment. The Persians led them into the...

no mortal existed now, nor would ever exist, who did not have a mixture of adversity in his life from the moment of his birth; indeed the...

To that, Demaratos replied, “The Lacedaemonians are in fact no worse than any other men when they fight individually, but when they unite...

Come now, tell me truly.” Artabanos answered him, “Sire, may the vision that appeared in that dream be fulfilled in accordance with what...

As he looked out over the whole Hellespont, whose water was completely hidden by all his ships, and at all the shores and the plains of...

Xerxes was attempting to cross the Hellespont with his army: It was from Abydos to this promontory, then, that the bridges were built by...