The American Revolution represented the informed and mature convictions of a great mass of independent, liberty-loving, God-fearing people who knew their rights,… — Calvin Coolidge 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
A disunited people till the end of time, suspicious and distrustful of each other, [the Americans] will be divided and subdivided into… — Josiah Tucker Copy Share Image
“In Jefferson's mind great historical leaps forward were almost always the product of a purging, which freed societies from the accumulated debris… — Joseph J. Ellis Copy Share Image
“From the experience of state militias during the American Revolution, to the Spanish-American War; from the legendary Merrill’s Marauders, the highly skilled… — Tom Mangold Copy Share Image
Away with your president! We shall have a king... the army will salute him as monarch; your militia will leave you and… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
Were the radical democratic impulses of the American Revolution still driving US politics, it would be difficult to imagine corporatization of the… — Ben Manski Copy Share Image
I look upon Virginia as a rib taken from Britain's side... While they both proceed as living under the marriage-compact, this Eve… — Alexander Spotswood Copy Share Image
The Army, as usual, are without pay; and a great part of the soldiery without shirts; and though the patience of them… — George Washington Copy Share Image
A half-starved limping government, always moving upon crutches and tottering at every step... — George Washington Copy Share Image
“The American Revolution and its aftermath coincided with two great transformations in the late eighteenth century. In the political sphere, there had… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more. I Am Not A Virginian, But An American! — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Until Washington crossed the Delaware, the triumph of the old order seemed inevitable. Thereafter, things would never be the same again.” — David Hackett Fischer 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
We’re going to foment our own revolution. So I say to the women out there in America, let’s keep this fight going!… — Barbara Mikulski Copy Share Image
I myself am a very, very peaceful person. Throughout our history, from our own American revolution to the resistance against apartheid in… — Tom Morello Copy Share Image
“John Adams, by then one of the country's founding fathers, wrote to a friend: "I know not why we should blush to… — Tom Standage Copy Share Image
Proceed, great chief, with virtue on thy sideThy every action let the goddess guide. — Phillis Wheatley Copy Share Image
“Journals of the House ofRepresent- atives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Beginning the twenty-eighth Day of November 1776, and Ending the second… — Francis Fox 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
I call not upon a few, but upon all: not on this state or that state, but on every state; up and… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Elections to office, which are the great objects of ambition, I look at with terror! — John Adams Copy Share Image
The American revolution not only cost Britain the 13 colonies but also forced it to rethink the slave trade and slavery, and… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
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