Praxis 5004 Famous Quotes
"Give me liberty or give me death" - answer this is a quotation attributed to Patrick
Henry from a speech he made to the Second Virginia Convention on March 23 1775;
this speech urged American colonies to revolt against England
"Taxation without representation" - answer Came from the American colonials against
their British rulers; opposition to taxation without representation was one of the primary
causes of the American Revolution
"The British are coming" - answer Yelled by Paul Revere
"Shot heard around the world" - answer On the night of April 18, 1775, hundreds of
British troops set off from Boston toward Concord, Massachusetts, in order to seize
weapons and ammunition stockpiled there by American colonists. Early the next
morning, the British reached Lexington, where approximately 70 minutemen had
gathered on the village green. Someone suddenly fired a shot - it is uncertain which
side - and a melee ensued. When the brief clash ended, 8 Americans lay dead and at
least an equal amount were injured, while one redcoat was wounded the British
continued on to nearby Concord, where that same day they encountered. Armed
resistance from a group of patriots at the towns' North Bridge. Gunfire was exchanged,
leaving two colonist and three redcoats dead. Afterward the British retreated back to
Boston, skirmishing with the colonial militiamen along the way and suffering a number of
casualties; the Revolutionary War had begun. The incident at the North Bridge later was
memorialized by Ralph Waldo Emerson in his 1837 poem "Concord Hymn" whose
opening stanza is:"By the rude bridge that arched the flood/their flag to April's breeze
unfurled/here once the embattled farmers stood/ and fired the shot heard around the
world."
"Don't shoot until you can see the whites of their eyes" - answerThis was commanded
by William Prescott during the Battle of Bunker Hill
"Unanimously pressed on myself alone to undertake the draught (sic). I consented; I
drew it; but before I reported it to the committee, I communicated it separately to Dr.
Franklin and Mr. Adams requesting their corrects...I then wrote a fair copy, reported it to
the committee, and from them unaltered to the Congress." - answerThomas Jefferson
wrote this in 1823 discussing how he primarily wrote the Declaration of Independence
but also had helped from the committee on some parts
"We hold these truths to be self-evidence; that all men are created equal; that they are
endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life,
liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; that to secure these rights, governments are
"Give me liberty or give me death" - answer this is a quotation attributed to Patrick
Henry from a speech he made to the Second Virginia Convention on March 23 1775;
this speech urged American colonies to revolt against England
"Taxation without representation" - answer Came from the American colonials against
their British rulers; opposition to taxation without representation was one of the primary
causes of the American Revolution
"The British are coming" - answer Yelled by Paul Revere
"Shot heard around the world" - answer On the night of April 18, 1775, hundreds of
British troops set off from Boston toward Concord, Massachusetts, in order to seize
weapons and ammunition stockpiled there by American colonists. Early the next
morning, the British reached Lexington, where approximately 70 minutemen had
gathered on the village green. Someone suddenly fired a shot - it is uncertain which
side - and a melee ensued. When the brief clash ended, 8 Americans lay dead and at
least an equal amount were injured, while one redcoat was wounded the British
continued on to nearby Concord, where that same day they encountered. Armed
resistance from a group of patriots at the towns' North Bridge. Gunfire was exchanged,
leaving two colonist and three redcoats dead. Afterward the British retreated back to
Boston, skirmishing with the colonial militiamen along the way and suffering a number of
casualties; the Revolutionary War had begun. The incident at the North Bridge later was
memorialized by Ralph Waldo Emerson in his 1837 poem "Concord Hymn" whose
opening stanza is:"By the rude bridge that arched the flood/their flag to April's breeze
unfurled/here once the embattled farmers stood/ and fired the shot heard around the
world."
"Don't shoot until you can see the whites of their eyes" - answerThis was commanded
by William Prescott during the Battle of Bunker Hill
"Unanimously pressed on myself alone to undertake the draught (sic). I consented; I
drew it; but before I reported it to the committee, I communicated it separately to Dr.
Franklin and Mr. Adams requesting their corrects...I then wrote a fair copy, reported it to
the committee, and from them unaltered to the Congress." - answerThomas Jefferson
wrote this in 1823 discussing how he primarily wrote the Declaration of Independence
but also had helped from the committee on some parts
"We hold these truths to be self-evidence; that all men are created equal; that they are
endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life,
liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; that to secure these rights, governments are
