Uttered by the colonial general prior to the Battle of Bennington, a turning point of the war, at which his forces defeated those of Lt. Colonel Friedrich Baum, ending
General John Burgoyne's plan of cutting the American colonies in half

Uttered by John Paul Jones, Sept 23, 1779, in the naval battle between the Bonhomme Richard and the Serapis in the North Sea off the coast of England

John Adams used this phrase in a 1774 article written under the name Novanglus in the Boston Gazette, and was subsequently written into the Constitution of Massachusetts

From George Washington's response to the Newburgh Letters, given during the winter of 1782-83 in Newburgh, New York

Referring to Washington; from a toast by Benjamin Franklin at Versailles (1783), in response to the British ministers toast referring to George III as the sun, and Louis XVI as the
moon

Jefferson's response when he was asked if he was replacing Franklin as ambassador

Jefferson writing to Madison following Shay's Rebellion, on what is needed in the political world

From the preamble of the Constitution

From Washington's first annual address to both houses of congress

An expression George Washington used when it was necessary to consult congress; allusion to the governor of Connecticut, who was the only colonial governor he could
count on for supplies during the revolution

1793 rallying cry directed against England's actions

Washington's 'Great Rule'; from his farewell address

Slogan from the XYZ affair, most often attributed to Charles Cotesworth Pickney

Title of a Joseph Hopkinson song, inspired by the XYZ affair

From a eulogy by Henry 'Light-Horse Harry' Lee for George Washington, 1799

From Thomas Jefferson's first inaugural address

From a letter by Jefferson to Robert Livingston, giving advice on what must be done if the French gain New Orleans

From Marbury v Madison, 1803, on the 'very essence of judicial duty'

Jefferson on his own conduct in the Louisiana Purchase

Principle by which the English impressed sailors on American ships

Tecumseh to an envoy of President Madison, 1810

Slogan of the War Hawks led by Speaker Henry Clay (1811-15), calling for the conquest of Canada

Dying words of Captain James Lawrence on June 1, 1813, commander of The Chesapeake during a battle outside Boston

Slogan Andrew Jackson used on March 27, 1814, to rally his militiamen at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend; referring to a massacre by the Creek Indians

Message from Oliver Hazard Perry, commander of the American fleet at the Battle of Lake Erie, September 10, 1813, to General William Henry Harrison

Rallying cry at the Battle of the Thames on October 5, 1813, where mounted dragoons from Kentucky, led by Congressman Richard Mentor Johnson pursued the British
and Indians into Canada; alluding to the Indian's massacre of the wounded Kentucky troops left behind in a previous battle

The first words of 'The Star-Spangled Banner', composed by Francis Scott Key on September 13-14, 1814, aboard the Minden, the U.S. flag of truce ship, in the Chesapeake Bay,
during the bombardment of Fort McHenry

Slogan praising the Treaty of Ghent signed on December 24, 1814; status quo ante bellum

A result of the War of 1812, according to Albert Gallatin, Madison's secretary of the treasury

A description of Andrew Jackson from one of his men; led to his famous nicname

Andrew Jackson at the Battle of New Orleans, to his artillerymen

Andrew Jackson, responding to British admiral Sir Alexander Cochrane, who boasted that he would eat Christmas dinner in the town