William Whipple Quotes

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“This year, my Friend, is big with mighty events. Nothing less than the fate of America depends on the virtue of her sons, and if they do not have virtue enough to support the most Glorious Cause ever human beings were engaged in, they don’t deserve the blessings of freedom.”

William Whipple

As quoted in "William Whipple" http://www.dsdi1776.com/signers-by-state/william-whipple/ (11 December 2011), The Society of the Descendants of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence

Fate , Support , Freedom , Dependency

“A recommendation is gone thither for raising some regiments of Blacks. This, I suppose will lay a foundation for the emancipation of those wretches in that country. I hope it will be the means of dispensing the blessings of Freedom to all the human race in America.”

William Whipple

As quoted in "This Was a Man" http://www.whipple.org/william/thiswasaman.html, by Dorothy Mansfield Vaughan

Hope , Freedom , Country

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