Elections to office, which are the great objects of ambition, I look at with terror! — John Adams Copy Share Image
The King has degenerated into a tyrant and forfeits all rights to his subjects' obedience. — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
I was very strenuous for retaining and insisting on it [law of nature], as a resource to which we might be driven… — John Adams Copy Share Image
There were people who said the Society of Cincinnati in the American revolution, of which George Washington was one of the shining… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
The American Revolution was, in fact, a battle against the philosophy of Locke and the English utilitarians. — Robert Trout Copy Share Image
The wind bit hard at Valley Forge one Christmas. Soldiers tied rags on their feet. Red footprints wrote on the snow... — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
“in Detroit, in July of 1967, what happened was no less than a guerrilla uprising. The Second American Revolution.” — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying supinely on our backs and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
The end of democracy and the defeat of the American Revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of lending institutions… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In 1984, Jim Koch used his family's lager recipe to start Boston Beer Company, which has since become the largest 'craft' brewer… — Elizabeth Flock Copy Share Image
That these are our grievances which we have thus laid before his majesty, with that freedom of language and sentiment which becomes… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in the crisis, shrink from the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Let it be told to the future world, that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The American Revolution was sparked by a series of taxes and tariffs on tea. More recently, the Thatcher and Reagan 'revolutions' were… — Priti Patel Copy Share Image
Several country towns, within my observation, have at least a dozen taverns. Here the time, the money, the health and the modesty,… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Ronald Reagan [ cite the founders] on behalf of emphasizing the faith of our founders, of limited government, of the uniqueness and… — Paul Kengor Copy Share Image
“Other examples of granfalloons are the Communist party, the Daughters of the American Revolution, the General Electric Company, the International Order of… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“ Washington , like most scholarly Virginians of his time, was a Deist ... Contemporary evidence shows that in mature life Washington… — Moncure D. Conway Copy Share Image
“The people’s right to alter or abolish their form of government was, to the American revolutionaries, supposedly absolute. Yet, strangely, neither the… — Garrett Epps Copy Share Image
If the American Revolution had produced nothing but the Declaration of Independence, it would have been worth while. . . . The… — Samuel Eliot Morison Copy Share Image
“One of the great advantages of the American Revolution has been, that it led to a discovery of the principles, and laid… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“The important point of this report [Montague, Massachusetts; July 7, 1774] may be summed up in six resolutions: 1. We approve of… — Edward Pearson Pressey Copy Share Image
Obama is now fighting for his life. He's fighting for a federal government. I believe in a federal government. I hope it… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
“Money bought access. But the Second American Revolution had happened, people began taking the Constitution seriously again, and the practice of renting… — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
“Perhaps no two events ever united so intimately and forceably to combat and expel prejudice, as the Revolution of America, and the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The American Revolution was a vindication of liberties inherited and possessed. It was a conservative revolution. — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image
A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate. — Thomas Jefferson 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
All men are created equal and have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It turns out one of my ancestors fought in the Continental Army, so I was inducted into the Sons of the American… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
Unwarranted search and seizure by the government officials was unacceptable to the American revolutionaries. Shouldn't it be unacceptable in the digital age,… — Heather Brooke 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
That slow poison [slavery] is daily contaminating the minds and morals of our people. Every gentlemen here is born a petty tyrant,… — George Mason Copy Share Image
You and I love understanding American Revolution, but let's also understand the digital revolution, because that makes us more comfortable with our… — Walter Isaacson 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… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way. — John Paul Jones 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
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