Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
| NUMBER: | 1067 |
| AUTHOR: | Arthur Lee (1740–92) |
| QUOTATION: | To one however who adores liberty, and the noble virtues of which it is the parent, there is some consolation in seeing, while we lament the fall of British liberty, the rise of that of America. Yes, my friend, like a young phoenix she will rise full plumed and glorious from her mother’s ashes. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Adams repeated the striking phrase in a letter to Lee, April 9, 1773: “But America ‘shall rise full plumed and glorious from her Mothers Ashes.’”—The Writings of Samuel Adams, ed. Harry A. Cushing, vol. 3, p. 21 (1907, reprinted 1968). |
| SUBJECTS: | Liberty |