“As time would prove, he had written one of the great, enduring documents of the American Revolution. The constitution of the Commonwealth… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
“While the sanitizers and rewriters of history have gone to enormous lengths to portray the second American revolution, also known as the… — Joseph Befumo Copy Share Image
[The passage of the Sugar Act] set people a thinking, in six months, more than they had done in their whole lives… — James Otis Copy Share Image
“Language itself is so value-laden as to render value-neutrality almost impossible. Growing up in England I was introduced to the American Revolution… — Arthur F. Holmes Copy Share Image
On the subject of the history of the American Revolution, you ask who shall write it? Who can write it? And who… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Our countrymen have all the folly of the ass and all the passiveness of the sheep. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
“For the primary goal of the American Revolution which transferred American life and introduced a new era in human history, was not… — Bernard Bailyn Copy Share Image
“Would it be such a terrible thing for us to fall in love?" he asked. ... "Ask me again in the morning.” — Donna Thurland Copy Share Image
Everything that is right or reasonable pleads for separation. The blood of the slain, the weeping voice of nature cries, 'tis time… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Not only the financial power, but also the legal power, has remained seated in Britain. The Washington Post commented on June 18,… — Eustace Mullins Copy Share Image
It is essential to our interest and the security of our colonies that the several nations or tribes of Indians... who live… — George III Copy Share Image
“Carl Degler says (Out of Our Past): “No new social class came to power through the door of the American revolution. The… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“It would be the twentieth century before the opening of the British Headquarters Papers at the University of Michigan proved what the… — Willard Sterne Randall Copy Share Image
But above all, what this Congress can be remembered for is opening the way to a new American revolutiona peaceful revolution in… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
James Watt patented his steam engine on the eve of the American Revolution, consummating a relationship between coal and the new Promethean… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it! Almighty… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
Planted by your care? No! Your oppression planted them in America... nourished by your indulgence? They grew by your neglect of them...… — Isaac Barre Copy Share Image
I feel that we have some opportunity in North America to go back and say the American Revolution was the real thing. — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
“It took Molly a long time to get to sleep. She kept thinking of all the exciting things that had happened. And… — Deborah G. Felder Copy Share Image
All men are created equal and have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The rebels did more in one night than my whole army would have done in one month. — 5th Viscount Howe William Howe Copy Share Image
Honor, justice and humanity call upon us to hold and to transmit to our posterity, that liberty, which we received from our… — John Dickinson Copy Share Image
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