We know the race is not to the swift nor the battle to the strong. Do you not think an angel rides in the whirlwind and directs this storm?

John Page

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Randomness American Revolution

Author

John Page

Medium

Letter

Language

English

Time

1776 1770s 18th century

Occupation

Politician

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United States

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Original Citation

Page, John. Letter to Thomas Jefferson. 20 July 1776.

Current Citation

Page, John. Quoted in Flight from Monticello: Thomas Jefferson at War, written by Michael Kranish. Oxford University Press, 2010.

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It 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.

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Current Citation

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When 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.

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Time
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Original Citation

United States Declaration of Independence. 1776.

Current Citation

The National Archives. The Declaration of Independence: A Transcript. 24 July 2020, www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript.