Ethan Allen

Those who invalidate reason ought seriously to consider whether they argue against reason with or without reason.

While we are under the tyranny of Priests, it will ever be their interest, to invalidate the law of nature and reason, in order to establish systems incompatible therewith.

Today we are reaching from younger people to baby boomers and up.

Those who invalidate reason ought seriously to consider whether they argue against reason with or without reason if with reason, then they establish the principles that they are laboring to dethrone but if they argue without reason (which, in order to be consistent with themselves they must do), they are out of reach of rational conviction, nor do they deserve a rational argument.

Captain Delaplace, Commandant at Fort Ticonderoga, New York, on May 10, 1775, gazed at Allen in bewildered astonishment. 'By whose authority do you act' exclaimed he. 'In the name of the great Jehovah, and the Continental Congress' replied Allen.

For mankind to hate truth as it may bring their evil deeds to light and punishment, is very easy and common, but to hate truth as truth, or God as God, which is the same as to hate goodness for its own sake, unconnected with any other consequences, is impossible even to a (premised) diabolical nature itself .

In response to an attending doctor who attempted to comfort him by saying, 'General, I fear the angels are waiting for you.' Waiting are they Waiting are they Welllet 'em wait.

The mortal remains of Ethan Allen, fighter, writer, statesman, and philosopher, lie in this cemetery beneath the marble statue. His spirit is in Vermont now.