“Patriotism is a fierce love for the nation’s soul - its land, its people, its core, coupled with a burning contempt for… — Njau Kihia Copy Share Image
Planted by your care? No! Your oppression planted them in America... nourished by your indulgence? They grew by your neglect of them...… — Isaac Barre Copy Share Image
You remember France, it's the country that financed the American Revolution... OK, it was in their self-interest, but still, they made it… — Richard Belzer Copy Share Image
We’re going to foment our own revolution. So I say to the women out there in America, let’s keep this fight going!… — Barbara Mikulski Copy Share Image
Not only the financial power, but also the legal power, has remained seated in Britain. The Washington Post commented on June 18,… — Eustace Mullins Copy Share Image
“Three of the revolutions," Bermuda said, "the French, the Russian, and the American, were true only in the beginning. Just true in… — Allan Dare Pearce Copy Share Image
Would the Protestant Reformation have happened without the printing press? Would the American Revolution have happened without pamphlets? Probably not. But neither… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
From the American Revolution right up to the Second World War, the U.S. was more likely to provoke suspicion among members of… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
“Without Thomas Jefferson and his Declaration of Independence, there would have been no American revolution that announced universal principles of liberty. Without… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“The British government in 1807 had issued the “Orders in Council,” which enforced a naval blockade against France, and with a shortage… — Charles River Editors Copy Share Image
Maya Jasanoff's Liberty's Exiles places the loyalist experience and the aftermath of the American Revolution in an entirely new light. Alongside the… — Sean Wilentz Copy Share Image
“For the primary goal of the American Revolution which transferred American life and introduced a new era in human history, was not… — Bernard Bailyn Copy Share Image
“[I]t is the greatest absurdity to suppose it in the power of one, or of any number of men, at the entering… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Brandon McCaw and Johnathan Goldsmith Dos Equis did a 500 billion page Essay Presentation based on the Economic issues proved particularly contentious… — Brandon McCaw Copy Share Image
“Americans have found it particularly difficult to come to terms with our “slave origins,” perhaps because the national history of the United… — Gavin Wright Copy Share Image
Honor, justice and humanity call upon us to hold and to transmit to our posterity, that liberty, which we received from our… — John Dickinson Copy Share Image
The Declaration of Independence promised citizens equal access to economic opportunity. This was the powerful principle for which men were willing to… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
I call not upon a few, but upon all: not on this state or that state, but on every state; up and… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Soldiers of the American Revolution fought that 18th century war with heavy muskets. In the early 20th century, we kids fought it… — Paul Engle Copy Share Image
In the Tea Party narrative, victory at the polls means a new American revolution, one that will 'take our country back' from… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
They tell us, sir, that we are weak; unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger?… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
The eyes of all our countrymen are now upon us, and we shall have their blessings and praises, if happily we are… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Make no mistake; the American Revolution was not fought to obtain freedom, but to preserve the liberties that Americans already had as… — Samuel Eliot Morison Copy Share Image
I look upon Virginia as a rib taken from Britain's side... While they both proceed as living under the marriage-compact, this Eve… — Alexander Spotswood Copy Share Image
It was just so in the American Revolution, in 1776, the first delicacy the men threw overboard in Boston harbor was the… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
If you want to be a great American, you have got to understand Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, how the American… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
The heritage of the American Revolution is forgotten, and the American government, for better and for worse, has entered into theheritage of… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
To cash paid for saddlery, a letter case, maps, glasses, etc etc etc. for the use of my Command: 29 pounds 13… — George Washington Copy Share Image
I consider the war of America against Britain as the country's war, the public's war, or the war of the people in… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“As time would prove, he had written one of the great, enduring documents of the American Revolution. The constitution of the Commonwealth… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
I am now . . . on a subject, which fills me with inexpressible concern . . . . But as it… — George Washington Copy Share Image
There are no words to express the extraordinary strength and character of this breed of people we call American. They are the… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
“Far too many Americans are illiterate in power — what it is, how it operates and why some people have it. As… — Eric Liu Copy Share Image
“whether on the battlefield or in the business world, leaders must be comfortable accepting some level of risk. As the U.S. Naval… — Jocko Willink Copy Share Image
“It took Molly a long time to get to sleep. She kept thinking of all the exciting things that had happened. And… — Deborah G. Felder Copy Share Image
The States separately have very inadequate ideas of the present danger. Party disputes and personal quarrels are the great business of the… — George Washington Copy Share Image
“Carl Degler says (Out of Our Past): “No new social class came to power through the door of the American revolution. The… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“Language itself is so value-laden as to render value-neutrality almost impossible. Growing up in England I was introduced to the American Revolution… — Arthur F. Holmes Copy Share Image
“Unhappy it is, though, to reflect that a brother's sword has been sheathed in a brother's breast and that the once-happy plains… — George Washington Copy Share Image