In all their wars against the French they [the Americans]…

At a given moment a child becomes interested in a piece of work, showing it by the expression of his face, by his intense…

— Maria Montessori

In movies, there are some things the French do that Americans are increasingly incapable of doing. One is honoring the complexities of youth. It's…

— Wesley Morris

The French, not the Americans, commissioned 'Einstein on the Beach.'

— Robert Wilson

Let us be French as the Americans are English.

— Henri Bourassa

Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.

— Samuel Smiles

“I will, however, establish that success in love, as in all other aspects of life, belongs, as a rule, to the persistent and fiber…

— Frank Harris

I am determined to defend my rights and maintain my freedom or sell my life in the attempt.

— Nathanael Greene

With regard to military discipline, I may safely say that no such thing existed in the Continental Army.

— Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben

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

Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it! Almighty God! I…

— Patrick Henry

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

The shot heard round the world.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Arnold went into treason as into a business, surveying the ground and estimating the possible profits.”

— Van Doren Carl C

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