Philip Freneau Quotes

#1. 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

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

Philip Freneau

#3. To the Memory of the Americans who fell at Eutaw,

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#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. Tobacco surely was designed
To poison, and destroy mankind.

Philip Freneau

#7. At sea let the British their neighbors defy-The French shall have frigates to traverse the sky.

Philip Freneau

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

Philip Freneau

#9. 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