The American idea my ancestors fought for during the…

Many, many people of the Revolutionary generation, the generation that fought in the Revolutionary War, understood that slavery was somehow in contradiction to what…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

One night I walked out of the church when the priest said that we should never have fought the Revolutionary war and every war…

— Wesley Clark

Rick Perry said America's revolutionary war was fought in the 16th century. When told it was actually the 18th century, Perry apologized and said,…

— Conan O'Brien

[It was] the poverty caused by the bad influence of the English bankers on the Parliament which has caused in the colonies hatred of…

— Benjamin Franklin

Let us therefore rely on the goodness of the cause, and the aid of the supreme Being, in whose hands victory is, to animate…

— George Washington

It is only in revolutionary struggle against the capitalists of every country, and only in union with the working women and men of the…

— Alexandra Kollontai

Reading is learning, but applying is also learning and the more important kind of learning at that. Our chief method is to learn warfare…

— Mao Zedong

Latinos have fought in all of America’s wars, beginning with the Revolutionary War. Many Latinos are fighting and dying for our country today in…

— Joe Baca

But what do we mean by the American Revolution? Do we mean the American war? The Revolution was effected before the war commenced. The…

— John Adams

Revisiting the Revolutionary War is a bracing reminder that the fate of a continent, and the shape of the modern world, turned on the…

— Anonymous

Writing for a newspaper is like running a revolutionary war. You go to battle not when you are ready, but when action offers itself.

— Norman Mailer

“This journey... it's long". He says this as if he's felt all 250 years of travel.”

— Beth Revis

Back when we started this at the tail end of 'Eye of the North,' Ree Soesbee and I worked out 250 years of timeline…

— Jeff Grubb

It's a historical phenomenon that in 250 years, a nation could move from a colony into the most prosperous nation of the world and…

— Vladimir Putin

We no longer believe, as we did 250 years ago, that the mentally ill are animals, but we are not yet ready to grant…

— Paul Gruchow