The house shakes...with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight. — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
In no obvious sense was the American Revolution undertaken as a social revolution. — Bernard Bailyn Copy Share Image
“If the cause is advanced, indifferent is it to me where or in what quarter it happens.” — George Washington Copy Share Image
The fate of Charles I has only made kings more subtle, not more just. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The people are turbulent and changing; they seldom judge right or make good decision. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
Before the American Revolution there were frequent slave uprisings, and a lot of people would run away. — Edward Ball Copy Share Image
During the whole time I sat with him in Congress, I never heard him utter three sentences together. — John Adams Copy Share Image
The American revolutionaries believed in the power of the word. But they had only word of mouth and the printing press. We… — Robert Darnton Copy Share Image
Let us therefore rely on the goodness of the cause, and the aid of the supreme Being, in whose hands victory is,… — George Washington Copy Share Image
“Until Washington crossed the Delaware, the triumph of the old order seemed inevitable. Thereafter, things would never be the same again.” — David Hackett Fischer Copy Share Image
It's going to be like herding stray cats, and the political leaders who can do it will be remembered as the same… — William H. Calvin Copy Share Image
If you were lost for America, there is nobody who could keep the army and the revolution [going] for six months. — Marquis de Lafayette Copy Share Image
“Dicky and Maude lived within familiar confines: the Ivy League, the Junior League, The Social Register, Emily Post, Lilly Pulitzer, the Daughters… — Maggie Shipstead Copy Share Image
Three millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus the American… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“As George Marsden reminds us, “at the time of the American Revolution there was no distinctly ‘Christian’ line of political thought as… — Steven K. Green Copy Share Image
A disunited people till the end of time, suspicious and distrustful of each other, [the Americans] will be divided and subdivided into… — Josiah Tucker Copy Share Image
To history therefore I must refer for answer, in which it would be an unhappy passage indeed, which should shew by what… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Long accustomed to the use of European manufactures, [the Cherokee Indians] are as incapable of returning to their habits of skinsand furs… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“the crisis that came upon the English colonies in the American Revolution was constitutional. It raised the question of how men should… — Robert Middlekauff Copy Share Image
Nothing exceptional [would happen to the world under a Hillary Clinton's presidency] - things would stay the same: sponsorship of "Color" or… — Andre Vltchek Copy Share Image
“In Jefferson's mind great historical leaps forward were almost always the product of a purging, which freed societies from the accumulated debris… — Joseph J. Ellis Copy Share Image
I think that most people don't think in terms of an American revolution, they think in terms of a Russian revolution, or… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
“And I beheld that their mother Gentiles were gathered together upon the waters, and upon the land also, to battle against them.… — Nephi Copy Share Image
“Gabrielle’s car climbed up Skyline Drive into the Ramapo Mountains. The road was only forty-five minutes from Manhattan, but it might as… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
“ The primary leaders of the so-called founding fathers of our nation were not Bible-believing Christians; they were deists . Deism was… — Farrell Till Copy Share Image
“The bibles (in English translation) are Mao Tse-Tung on Guerrilla Warfare by Brigadier General Samuel B. Griffith, USMC (Ret), which contains General… — J.C. Wylie Copy Share Image
“The great American dream that reached out to the stars has been lost to the stripes. We have forgotten where we came… — Saul D. Alinsky Copy Share Image