Ethan Allen
Birthdate: January 10, 1739
Birthplace: Litchfield, Connecticut Colony
Date of Death: February 12, 1789
Occupation: American Revolutionary War Patriot and Politician
Profile: Best known as one of the founding fathers of the U.S. State of Vermont and for the capture of Fort Ticonderoga.
Website: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethan_Allen
Number of Quotes: 11
Fidelity to the public requires that the laws be as plain and explicit as possible, that the less
knowing may understand, and not be ensnared by them, while a few may wrest them to their own purposes.
In those parts of the world where learning and science have prevailed, miracles have
ceased; but in those parts of it as are barbarous and ignorant, miracles are still in vogue.
It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.
The Gods of the valleys are not the Gods of the hills.
The people will have an end, and, as they say, the potter knows when the clay is out.
Those who invalidate reason ought seriously to consider whether they argue against reason with or without reason.
To be a successful soldier, you must know history.
The progress of the American Revolution has been so rapid and such the alteration of manners, the blending of characters, and the new
train of ideas that almost universally prevail, that the principles which animated to the noblest exertions have been nearly annihilated.
Waiting are they? Waiting are they? Well - let 'em wait.
We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth... For my part, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst; and to provide for it.
While we are under the tyranny of Priests, it will ever be their interest, to invalidate
the law of nature and reason, in order to establish systems incompatible therewith.
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