Philip Freneau Quotes

• Pero la fama es suya - y los días futuros
  En columnas de bronce contarán sus alabanzas;
  Dirán - cuando la fría negligencia haya muerto -
  "Estos por su país lucharon y sangraron."

  Philip Freneau

  Uplifting, Country, Veterans Day

  Philip Morin Freneau (1861). “Poems on Various Subjects: But Chiefly Illustrative of the Events and Actors in the American War of Independence”, p.293

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• 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, Atheism

  Philip Morin Freneau (1809). “Poems Written and Published During the American Revolutionary War, and Now Republished from the Original Manuscripts: Interspersed with Translations from the Ancients, and Other Pieces Not Heretofore in Print”, p.148

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• Tobacco surely was designed
  To poison, and destroy mankind.

  Philip Freneau

  Smoking, Poison, Mankind

  Poems, 'Tobacco'

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• 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

  Uplifting, Country, Memorial Day

  Philip Freneau (1963). “The Poems of Philip Freneau: Poet of the American Revolution (Complete)”, p.521, Library of Alexandria

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• Jesus would never use government surrogates to force the people to help others.

  Philip Freneau

  Jesus, Helping Others, Government

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• Red serpents, fiery forms, and yelling hags, Fit company for mad adventurers.

  Philip Freneau

  Halloween, Yelling, Mad

  Philip Freneau (1963). “The Poems of Philip Freneau: Poet of the American Revolution (Complete)”, p.214, Library of Alexandria

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• 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

  Philip Freneau (1963). “The Poems of Philip Freneau: Poet of the American Revolution (Complete)”, p.813, Library of Alexandria

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• They saw their injured country's woe.

  Philip Freneau

  Country, Memorial Day, Woe

  Philip Freneau (1963). “The Poems of Philip Freneau: Poet of the American Revolution (Complete)”, p.521, Library of Alexandria

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• At sea let the British their neighbours defy —
  The French shall have frigates to traverse the sky.

  Philip Freneau

  Sea, Sky, Aviation

  "Poems on Various Subjects: But Chiefly Illustrative of the Events and Actors in the American War of Independence".

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