“below. In an unclouded harmony of tastes and interests they cultivated ferns in Wardian cases, made macrame lace and wool embroidery on… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“For years after the American Revolution, the public opposed the creation of police departments, fearing that they would become forces of repression.… — David Grann Copy Share Image
Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt. — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
We should not forget that the spark which ignited the American Revolution was caused by the British attempt to confiscate the firearms… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
“Yet in the 1950s and '60s, a wide range of historians quickly and uncritically...[sought to] rule out of serious discussion of the… — William Hogeland Copy Share Image
There are cases - for example, the American Revolution. George Washington's army lost just about every battle with the British, who had… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The madness of mobs or the insolence of soldiers, or both, when too near to each other, occasion some mischief. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
There is such an equality among them that the officers have no authority. The privates are all generals, but not soldiers. — Bernard Law Montgomery 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
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
“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 Copy Share Image
“Simm watched the hanging with disgust. Why would the young man pretend to be a spy when he had no skills and… — Dory Codington 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
Now is the seedtime of continental union, faith and honor. The least fracture now, will be like a name engraved with the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Patriotism is as much a virtue as justice, and is as necessary for the support of societies as natural affection is for… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
In no obvious sense was the American Revolution undertaken as a social revolution. — Bernard Bailyn Copy Share Image
Has the grim savage rushed again from the wilderness? Or does some fiend... twang her deadly arrows at our breast? No, none… — Joseph Warren Copy Share Image
Our revolution in Burkina Faso draws on the totality of mans experiences since the first breath of humanity. We wish to be… — Thomas Sankara Copy Share Image
There! His Majesty can now read my name without glasses. And he can double the reward on my head! — John Hancock Copy Share Image
In short I must confide in you to take such care of the men under you as an economical householder would of… — Thomas Jefferson 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
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 American Revolution was the grand operation, which seemed to be assigned by the Deity to the men of this age in… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
“New Englanders began the Revolution not to institute reforms and changes in the order of things, but to save the institutions and… — Edward Pearson Pressey Copy Share Image
