James Madison
September 17

“They accomplished a revolution which has no parallel in the annals of human society. They reared the fabrics of governments which have no model on the face of the globe.”

Thomas Jefferson
September 16

“When in the Course
of human events…”

Martin Luther King Jr.
September 15

“What have I, or those I represent, to do with your national independence? Are the great principles of political freedom and of natural justice embodied in the Declaration of Independence, extended to us?”

Fredrick Douglass
September 15

“What have I, or those I represent, to do with your national independence? Are the great principles of political freedom and of natural justice embodied in the Declaration of Independence, extended to us?”

Abraham Lincoln
September 15

“We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain – that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom – and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”

Susan B. Anthony
September 14

“How can ‘the consent of the governed’ be given, if the right to vote be denied?”

Elizabeth Cady Stanton
September 14

“We ask for all that you have asked for yourselves… and simply on the ground that the rights of every human being are the same and identical.”

George Washington
September 13

“The greatest character of the age…”
-King George III

John Marshall
September 12

“It is a proposition too plain to be contested, that the constitution controls any legislative act repugnant to it…”

John Adams
September 11

“Yesterday, the greatest Question, which was ever debated in America, and a greater perhaps, never was nor will be decided among men.”