American revolution Quote by 5th Viscount Howe William Howe Download Open image “The rebels did more in one night than my whole army would have done in one month.” — 5th Viscount Howe William Howe ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare American revolution Army Done Months Night One night Rebel Revolution Whole
Real rebels are rarely anything but second rate outside their rebellion; the drain of time and temper is ruinous to any other accomplishment. — James Gould Cozzens Copy Share Image
No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat. — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
I begin to fully understand the lengths to which people have gone to protect me. What I mean to the rebels. My on going struggle against the Capitol, which has so often felt like a solitary journey, has not been undertaken alone. I have had thousands upon thousands of people from the districts at my side. I was their Mockingjay… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share
I did rebel. I was the rebel in my family, because my dad wanted me to go and just travel with him. — Dhani Harrison Copy Share Image
The only people who ever called me a rebel were people who wanted me to do what they wanted. — Nick Nolte Copy Share Image
I certainly don't think that the heirs of the American Revolution were a particularly noble class. — H. W. Brands Copy Share Image
“Patriotism is a fierce love for the nation’s soul - its land, its people, its core, coupled with a burning contempt for a government… — Njau Kihia Copy Share Image
The two principles on which our conduct towards the Indians should be founded are justice and fear. After the injuries we have done them,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Socially, politically, economically, militarily, culturally, racially, sexually, demographically, even mythologically, World War II was the crucible that forged modern America. It was the transforming event that reshaped all who lived through it, and continues to affect those born after it. Only the American Revolution that created the new nation and the Civil War that preserved the Union rank with it… — Haynes Johnson Copy Share
But what do we mean by the American Revolution? Do we mean the American war? The Revolution was effected before the war commenced. The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people; a change in their religious sentiments, of their duties and obligations ... This radical change in the principles, opinions, sentiments, and affections of the people was… — John Adams Copy Share
Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our… — Samuel Adams 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 of seamen to man the Royal Navy, Britain also felt justified in stopping and sometimes firing on ships flying the American flag in the name of apprehending escaped British sailors. The other main cause of war was distress… — Charles River Editors Copy Share
“There were counter-protests, of course, and in the end Mapplethorpe’s work was exhibited, but the message to the arts community was clear: stray too far from the innocuous, and the axe would fall. Call it selective censorship: freedom of expression was guaranteed unless it was expressed in a work of art. The most amazing aspect of this American morality play… — David Bayles Copy Share
During the whole time I sat with him in Congress, I never heard him utter three sentences together. — John Adams Copy Share Image
“Wyoming got an Algonquian name from Pennsylvania meaning “large prairie,” but the adoption came only after a long fight. Decades before the settling of the present state of Wyoming, its name achieved popular acclaim after an 1809 poem, “Gertrude of Wyoming,” by Thomas Campbell. The poem recalled the Iroquois defeat of a group of Tory settlers and the ensuing death… — Jack Weatherford Copy Share