Quote of the day
How beautiful is death, when earn'd by virtue!
Who would not be that youth? What pity is it
That we can die but once to serve our country!
Mercy Otis Warren
Born: September 14, 1728
Died: October 19, 1814 (aged 86)
Bio: Mercy Otis Warren was a political writer and propagandist of the American Revolution. In the eighteenth century, topics such as politics and war were thought to be the province of men.
Known for:
- The Adulateur (1773)
- The Blockheads
- The Blockheads, and the Defeat
- The group. 1779 [!] (1775)