Quote of the day
The liberty of man consists solely in this: that he obeys natural laws because he has himself recognized them as such, and not because they have been externally imposed upon him by any extrinsic will whatever, divine or human, collective or individual.
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)