Ethan Allen Quotes (11 Quotes)

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.

Waiting, are they Waiting, are they Well, goddam 'em, let 'em waitEthan Allen, to his physician who said General, I fear the angels are waiting for you, quoted in Saturday Review, April 5, 1958

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.

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

Reason the Only Oracle of Man.

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.

There is not any thing, which has contributed so much to delude mankind in religious matters, as mistaken apprehensions concerning supernatural inspiration or revelation not considering that all true religion originates from reason, and can not othe

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

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 those parts of the world where learning and science has prevailed, miracles have ceased; but in those parts of it as are barbarous and ignorant, miracles are still in vogue.

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.