American revolution Quotes · Page 13

Make no mistake; the American Revolution was not fought to obtain freedom, but to preserve the liberties that Americans already had as…

— Samuel Eliot Morison

On June 22, 2008, at the age of 71, an American revolutionary died. He was a bona fide genius, an outspoken critich,…

— Corey Taylor

Virtual representation is so absurd as to not deserve an answer. I therefore pass it over with contempt.

— Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden

The times that tried men's souls are over-and the greatest and completest revolution the world ever knew, gloriously and happily accomplished.

— Thomas Paine

The day is not distant when we must bear and adopt [the abolition of slavery], or worse will follow.

— Thomas Jefferson

“If the cause is advanced, indifferent is it to me where or in what quarter it happens.”

— George Washington

“ The primary leaders of the so-called founding fathers of our nation were not Bible-believing Christians; they were deists . Deism was…

— Farrell Till

Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes! Then fire low!

— Israel Putnam

Very many and very meritorious were the worthy patriots who assisted in bringing back our government to its republican tack. To preserve…

— Thomas Jefferson

Even respectable characters speak of a monarchical form of government without horror.

— George Washington

No man in his senses can hesitate in choosing to be free, rather than a slave.

— Alexander Hamilton

Our properties within our own territories [should not] be taxed or regulated by any power on earth but our own.

— Thomas Jefferson

In all their wars against the French they [the Americans] never showed such conduct, attention and perseverance as they do now.

— Thomas Gage

According to Melissa Mailey, we now live in a world where kings and noblemen rule the roost. And they've turned all of…

— Michael Stearns

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls. Contrary to what you've just seen, war is neither glamorous nor fun. There are no winners,…

— Nancy Cartwright

“The American Revolution is sometimes said to have brought about the separation of church and state. The northern states made such declarations,…

— Howard Zinn

A revolution is bloody, but America is in a unique position. She's the only country in history in a position actually to…

— Malcolm X

I dare say the men would fight very well if properly officered, although they are an exceedingly dirty and nasty people.

— George Washington

Faced by the actual practice of freedom, the French and American revolutions would be forced to stand by their words.

— William S. Burroughs

For the fate of Charles the first, hath only made kings more subtle — not more just.

— Thomas Paine

It's going to be like herding stray cats, and the political leaders who can do it will be remembered as the same…

— William H. Calvin

This was the first Memorial Day [Monday, May 1st, 1865]. African Americans invented Memorial Day in Charleston, South Carolina. What you have…

— David W. Blight

The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus the American…

— Charles Caleb Colton

“The American Revolution was characterized by three basic freedoms: economic freedom or capitalism, political freedom or constitutional democracy, and freedom of speech…

— Dinesh D'Souza

The epithets of parent and child have been long applied to Great Britain and her colonies, [but] we rarely see anything from…

— George Mason