1780

Explore 8 quotes from the year 1780

These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed.... Great necessities call out great virtues.

Abigail Adams

Letter to John Adams, 1780

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Topic

Interesting times Benefits of adversity

Author

Abigail Adams

Source

Letter to John Adams, 1780 Letters of Abigail Adams

Medium

Letter

Language

English

Time

1780 1780s 18th century

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Original Citation

Adams, Abigail. Letter to John Quincy Adams. 12 Jan. 1780.

Current Citation

Adams, Abigail. Quoted in John Adams, written by David McCullough. Simon and Schuster, 2001.

The real or supposed necessity of treating the Negroes with rigor gradually brings a numbness upon the heart and renders most of those who are engaged in it too indifferent to the sufferings of their fellow creatures.

John Newton

Thoughts Upon the African Slave Trade

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Topic

Consequences of slavery

Author

John Newton

Source

Thoughts Upon the African Slave Trade

Language

English

Time

1780 1780s 18th century

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Citation

Newton, John. "Thoughts upon the African Slave Trade." Letters and Sermons. c. 1780.

No nation was ever ruined by trade.

Benjamin Franklin

The Annual Register, Or a View of the History, Politics, and Literature, For the Year 1779

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Topic

Trade and commerce Economic theory

Author

Benjamin Franklin

Source

Thoughts on Commercial Subjects The Annual Register, Or a View of the History, Politics, and Literature, For the Year 1779

Language

English

Time

1780 1780s 18th century

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Citation

Franklin, Benjamin. "Thoughts on Commercial Subjects." The Annual Register, Or a View of the History, Politics, and Literature, For the Year 1779. London: J. Dodsley, 1780.

I must study Politicks and War that my sons may have liberty to study Mathematicks and Philosophy.

John Adams

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Topic

Politics War Progress

Author

John Adams

Source

Letters of John Adams

Medium

Letter

Language

English

Time

1780 1780s 18th century

Era

American Revolutionary Period

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Original Citation

Adams, John. Letter to Abigail Adams. 12 May 1780.

Current Citation

John Adams to Abigail Adams, 12 May 1780,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/04-03-02-0258.

Individuals pass like shadows; but the commonwealth is fixed and stable.

Edmund Burke

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Topic

The United Kingdom Ephemeral nature of life Impermanence

Author

Edmund Burke

Source

Speech on Presenting to the House of Commons a Plan for the Better Security of the Independence of Parliament and the Economical Reformation of the Civil and Other Establishments

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1780 1780s 18th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

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Original Citation

Burke, Edmund. "Speech on Presenting to the House of Commons a Plan for the Better Security of the Independence of Parliament and the Economical Reformation of the Civil and Other Establishments." 11 Feb. 1780, Palace of Westminster, Westminster, London, England, UK.

Current Citation

Burke, Edmund. "Speech on Economical Reform." The Portable Edmund Burke, edited by Isaac Kramnick. Penguin, 2009.

I hate Congress—I hate the army—I hate the world—I hate myself. The whole is a mass of fools and knaves.

Alexander Hamilton

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Topic

Political frustration Over it

Author

Alexander Hamilton

Source

Letters of Alexander Hamilton

Medium

Letter

Language

English

Time

1780 1780s 18th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Hamilton, Alexander. Letter to Lieutenant Colonel John Laurens. 12 Sept. 1780.

Current Citation

Hamilton, Alexander. "From Alexander Hamilton to Lieutenant Colonel John Laurens, [12 September 1780]." Founders Online, National Archives, founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-02-02-0851.

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.

Edmund Burke

Speech at the Bristol Guildhall, September 6, 1780

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Topic

Law Legal theory Tyranny

Speaker

Edmund Burke

Source

Speech at the Bristol Guildhall, September 6, 1780

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1780 1780s 18th century

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Citation

Burke, Edmund. Speech in the Bristol Guildhall. 6 Sept. 1780, Bristol Guildhall, Bristol, England, UK.

The people are the masters.

Edmund Burke

Speech in House of Commons, February 11, 1780

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Topic

Citizen and state

Speaker

Edmund Burke

Source

Speech in House of Commons, February 11, 1780

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1780 1780s 18th century

Authentication Score 2

Citation

Burke, Edmund. Address on the Independence of Parliament and Economical Reformation. House of Commons meeting. 11 Feb. 1780, Palace of Westminster, London, England, UK.