AP Lang - American Literature Quotes and Authors

"We must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us."

Model of Christian Charity - Winthrop

"So that, thus it is that natural men are held in the hand of God, over the pit of hell."

Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God - Edwards

"The world no longer let me love, / My hope and treasure lie above."

Verses Upon the Burning of My House - Bradstreet

"The whole country, full of woods and thickets, represented a wild and savage hue."

On Plymouth Plantation - Bradford

"An honest heart being the first blessing, a knowing head is the second."

Letter to Peter Carr - Jefferson

"It was about this time that I conceived of the bold and arduous project of arriving at moral perfection."

Autobiography - Franklin

"O ye nominal Christians! Might not an African ask you, Learned you this from your God?"

Interesting Narrative of the Life of - Equiano

"Remember, Christians, Negroes, black as Cain / May be refin'd and join th' angelic train."

On Being Brought From Africa to America - Wheatley

"Give me liberty or give me death!"

Speech to the Virginia Convention - Henry

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."

Declaration of Independence - Jefferson

"Government is at best a necessary evil"

Common Sense - Paine

"Remember the ladies"

Letter to John Adams - Adams

"I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all."

Nature - Emerson

"Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of everyone of its members."

Self-Reliance - Emerson

"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately…and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived."

Walden - Thoreau

"Quoth the Raven, 'Nevermore.'"

The Raven - Poe

"'Hope' is the thing with feathers / That perches in the soul"

Hope is the Thing with Feathers - Dickinson

"These are not the parts and poems of the body only, but of the soul, / O I say now these are the soul!"

I Sing the Body Electric - Whitman