Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by John Stark

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Last updated on November 7, 2024.
John Stark

John Stark was a New Hampshire native who served as an officer in the British Army during the French and Indian war and a major general in the Continental Army during the American Revolution. He became widely known as the "Hero of Bennington" for his exemplary service at the Battle of Bennington in 1777.

August 28, 1728 - May 8, 1822
Tonight the American flag floats from yonder hill or Molly Stark sleeps a widow.
There are your enemies, the Red Coats and the Tories. They are ours, or this night Molly Stark sleeps a widow!
If the Lord should once more give us sunshine and I do not give you enough fighting, I will never ask you to come out again. — © John Stark
If the Lord should once more give us sunshine and I do not give you enough fighting, I will never ask you to come out again.
Yonder are the Hessians. They were bought for seven pounds and tenpence a man. Are you worth more? Prove it. Tonight the American flag floats from yonder hill or Molly Stark sleeps a widow!
I am now-the friend of the equal rights of men, of representative democracy, of republicanism and the Declaration of Independence, the great charter of our national rights; and of course the friend of the indissoluble union and Constitution of the states. I am the enemy of all foreign influence, for all foreign influence is the influence of tyranny. This is the only chosen spot of liberty-this is the only republic on earth." "Live Free Or Die; Death Is Not The Worst Of Evils.
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