Philip Freneau famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

But fame is theirs - and future days On pillar'd brass shall tell their praise; Shall tell - when cold neglect is dead - "These for their country fought and bled."
-- Philip Freneau

#Country #Memorial Day #Pillars
Red serpents, fiery forms, and yelling hags, Fit company for mad adventurers.
-- Philip Freneau

#Halloween #Yelling #Mad
They saw their injured country's woe.
-- Philip Freneau

#Country #Memorial Day #Woe
They saw their injured country's woe; The flaming town, the wasted field; Then rushed to meet the insulting foe; They took the spear, - but left the shield.
-- Philip Freneau

#Country #Memorial Day #Insulting
Tobacco surely was designed To poison, and destroy mankind.
-- Philip Freneau

#Smoking #Poison #Mankind
At sea let the British their neighbors defy-The French shall have frigates to traverse the sky.
-- Philip Freneau

#Sea #Sky #Neighbor
If nothing once, you nothing lose, For when you die you are the same; The space between is but an hour, The frail duration of a flower.
-- Philip Freneau

#Flower #Space #Duration
And long shall timorous fancy see The painted chief, and pointed spear, And Reason's self shall bow the knee To shadows and delusions here.
-- Philip Freneau

#Self #Long #Shadow
To the Memory of the Americans who fell at Eutaw,
-- Philip Freneau

#Memories
Jesus would never use government surrogates to force the people to help others.
-- Philip Freneau

#Jesus #Helping Others #Government

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