Important Quotes in American History

First Year Experience (FYE)Lesson on American History

Jeff Randolph

Purpose

• To emphasis the importance of our nations history

• To allow an interactive Learning environment– Described through interactive audio clips– Highlighting important people, dates, and quotes

Expectations

• At the completion of the lesson all Learners are expected to be:– Be familiar with the quotes conveyed– Know who said each of the quotes– Describe the significance the quote/person played

in our nations history– Prepare a short descriptive essay and power point

presentation about the lesson and in particular the quote that means the most to each individual learner

George Washington

• "[A] good moral character is the first essential in a man... and your conduct here may stamp your character through life. It is therefore highly important that you should endeavor not only to be learned but virtuous."

Ben Franklin

• "I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it."

Thomas Jefferson

• “The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases.”

Thomas Jefferson

• "No power over the freedom of religion is delegated to the United States by the Constitution."

Thomas Jefferson

• "Government can do something for the people only in proportion as it can do something to the people."

Thomas Jefferson

• “Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.”

Abraham Lincoln

• "Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God, cannot long retain it."

Abraham Lincoln

• "I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me, seemed insufficient for that day."

Theodore Roosevelt

• "To educate a person in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society."

Theodore Roosevelt

• "Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far."

Patrick Henry

• “Give me Liberty, or give me Death!”

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

• “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.”

George W. Bush

• “You are either with us, or against us”

Follow up

• Create a power point presentation to be presented in the next class session to your classmates.– Must have a minimum of 12 slides total including

introduction slide– Include at least 10 quotes in American history that

are important to you– Presentation must be a minimum of 5 minutes