The only foundation of a free Constitution, is pure Virtue, and if this cannot be inspired into our People, in a great… — John Adams 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
This open resistance to [Parliament's] authority can only have found place among the lower and more ignorant of the people. — Henry Seymour Conway Copy Share Image
I am now . . . on a subject, which fills me with inexpressible concern . . . . But as it… — George Washington Copy Share Image
“The great American dream that reached out to the stars has been lost to the stripes. We have forgotten where we came… — Saul D. Alinsky Copy Share Image
[T]he people seem to have deposited the monarchical and taken up the republican government with as much ease as would have attended… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Once the American Revolution is understood as a civil war, much falls into place.” — Daniel Hannan Copy Share Image
“The major premises of Christian religions are (1) the idea of Original Sin and (2) the belief in salvation through faith. Deists… — Monica Sjöö Copy Share Image
The American Revolution and Declaration of Independence, it has often been argued, were fueled by the most radical of all American political… — Carl Bernstein Copy Share Image
I am determined to defend my rights and maintain my freedom or sell my life in the attempt. — Nathanael Greene Copy Share Image
Remember, officers and soldiers, that you are fighting for the blessings of liberty. — George Washington Copy Share Image
“Commoners already paid the lion’s share of national taxes and, because of these old feudal records, they now also paid a whole… — Tom Reiss Copy Share Image
“Only she who attempts the absurd can ever achieve the impossible.” — Nancy Means Wright Copy Share Image
The progress of the American Revolution has been so rapid and such the alteration of manners, the blending of characters, and the… — Mercy Otis Warren Copy Share Image
“And I beheld that their mother Gentiles were gathered together upon the waters, and upon the land also, to battle against them.… — Nephi Copy Share Image
The New Englanders, by their canting, whining and insinuating tricks, have persuaded the rest of the colonies that the government is going… — Nicholas Cresswell Copy Share Image
“Think of George Washington, putting everything he had into the American Revolution, and then saying, “The event is in the hand of… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
“Give me liberty or give me death." [From a speech given at Saint John's Church in Richmond, Virginia on March 23, 1775… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
Mankind may amuse themselves with theoretic systems of liberty... but we can only discern its true value by the practical and wretched… — Mercy Otis Warren Copy Share Image
Some of my ancestors fought in the American Revolution. A few more wore red coats, a few wore blue coats, and the… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.” — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Thomas Jefferson had rather serious concerns about the fate of the democratic experiment.28 He feared the rise of a new form of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“During some of the darkest days of the American Revolution, a courageous patriot risked life and limb to alert the rebels to… — Jason Porath Copy Share Image