American revolution Quotes · Page 4

“Only she who attempts the absurd can ever achieve the impossible.”

— Nancy Means Wright

The King has degenerated into a tyrant and forfeits all rights to his subjects' obedience.

— Patrick Henry

A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.

— Alexander Hamilton

“Once the American Revolution is understood as a civil war, much falls into place.”

— Daniel Hannan

There were people who said the Society of Cincinnati in the American revolution, of which George Washington was one of the shining…

— Carroll Quigley

The American Revolution and Declaration of Independence, it has often been argued, were fueled by the most radical of all American political…

— Carl Bernstein

Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt.

— Samuel Adams

The American Revolution was, in fact, a battle against the philosophy of Locke and the English utilitarians.

— Robert Trout

My great-grandfather fought with the Colonial Army in New England in the American Revolution.

— W. E. B. Du Bois

I was very strenuous for retaining and insisting on it [law of nature], as a resource to which we might be driven…

— John Adams

Our properties within our own territories [should not] be taxed or regulated by any power on earth but our own.

— Thomas Jefferson

We boast of our freedom, and we have your example for it. We talk the language we have always heard you speak.

— Samuel Adams

“Give me liberty or give me death." [From a speech given at Saint John's Church in Richmond, Virginia on March 23, 1775…

— Patrick Henry

Several country towns, within my observation, have at least a dozen taverns. Here the time, the money, the health and the modesty,…

— John Adams

Ronald Reagan [ cite the founders] on behalf of emphasizing the faith of our founders, of limited government, of the uniqueness and…

— Paul Kengor

“Other examples of granfalloons are the Communist party, the Daughters of the American Revolution, the General Electric Company, the International Order of…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Let it be told to the future world, that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive,…

— Thomas Paine

Has the grim savage rushed again from the wilderness? Or does some fiend... twang her deadly arrows at our breast? No, none…

— Joseph Warren

The American Revolution was sparked by a series of taxes and tariffs on tea. More recently, the Thatcher and Reagan 'revolutions' were…

— Priti Patel

The epithets of parent and child have been long applied to Great Britain and her colonies, [but] we rarely see anything from…

— George Mason

In comparison to the French Revolution, the American Revolution has come to seem a parochial and rather dull event. This, despitethe fact…

— Irving Kristol

“The people’s right to alter or abolish their form of government was, to the American revolutionaries, supposedly absolute. Yet, strangely, neither the…

— Garrett Epps

If the American Revolution had produced nothing but the Declaration of Independence, it would have been worth while. . . . The…

— Samuel Eliot Morison

“One of the great advantages of the American Revolution has been, that it led to a discovery of the principles, and laid…

— Thomas Paine

Obama is now fighting for his life. He's fighting for a federal government. I believe in a federal government. I hope it…

— Oliver Stone

“The prominent British statesman and scholar Edmund Burke (1729–1797) emphasized another fundamental characteristic of the civil society—valuing human experience, tradition, and custom.…

— Mark R. Levin

“Think of George Washington, putting everything he had into the American Revolution, and then saying, “The event is in the hand of…

— Ryan Holiday

“Money bought access. But the Second American Revolution had happened, people began taking the Constitution seriously again, and the practice of renting…

— Jack McDevitt

There! His Majesty can now read my name without glasses. And he can double the reward on my head!

— John Hancock

“in Detroit, in July of 1967, what happened was no less than a guerrilla uprising. The Second American Revolution.”

— Jeffrey Eugenides

Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying supinely on our backs and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until…

— Patrick Henry

The end of democracy and the defeat of the American Revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of lending institutions…

— Thomas Jefferson

The day is not distant when we must bear and adopt [the abolition of slavery], or worse will follow.

— Thomas Jefferson

What I want to accomplish artistically amounts to nothing more than fulfilling the promise of the American Revolution.

— L. Neil Smith

The wind bit hard at Valley Forge one Christmas. Soldiers tied rags on their feet. Red footprints wrote on the snow...

— Carl Sandburg

A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common…

— Samuel Adams

We should not forget that the spark which ignited the American Revolution was caused by the British attempt to confiscate the firearms…

— Patrick Henry

The American Revolution was a vindication of liberties inherited and possessed. It was a conservative revolution.

— William E. Gladstone

A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.

— Thomas Jefferson

Virtual representation is so absurd as to not deserve an answer. I therefore pass it over with contempt.

— Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden