“These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Despite a certain amount of rhetoric, such as 'the second American Revolution,' there is a fair consensus about which events in the… — Ian Hacking 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
“In the eighteenth century, with the growth of publishing and with the intellectual climate of the Enlightenment, there was a great demand… — Ronald Carter Copy Share Image
“Americans have found it particularly difficult to come to terms with our “slave origins,” perhaps because the national history of the United… — Gavin Wright Copy Share Image
“To evoke another great phrase of the American revolutionary heritage — widely though inconclusively attributed to Thomas Jefferson — the price of… — David Andress Copy Share Image
“The idea of an earthly paradise in which men should live together in a state of brotherhood, without laws and without brute… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“With the single exception of the American Revolution, the aftermath of all revolutions from 1789 on only worsened the human condition.” — Arnold Beichman Copy Share Image
It's worth noting that at the time of the American Revolution, no sane person would have given two cents for its success. — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
Three millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
“The bibles (in English translation) are Mao Tse-Tung on Guerrilla Warfare by Brigadier General Samuel B. Griffith, USMC (Ret), which contains General… — J.C. Wylie Copy Share Image
“American-born families flowing into Upper Canada first as political refugees from the American Revolution and later as economic migrants.” — Troy Bickham Copy Share Image
The people are turbulent and changing; they seldom judge right or make good decision. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
“Dicky and Maude lived within familiar confines: the Ivy League, the Junior League, The Social Register, Emily Post, Lilly Pulitzer, the Daughters… — Maggie Shipstead 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
“Limiting the power of government, in order to liberate the individual, was the great American revolutionary insight. Too much cooperation, avoiding conflict… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
“The heirs of the French, English, and American revolutions had partly believed in their own phrases about the rights of man, freedom… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
With regard to military discipline, I may safely say that no such thing existed in the Continental Army. — Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben Copy Share Image
The American Revolution was a small part of a major world war going on between France and England, so the French intervened… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The States separately have very inadequate ideas of the present danger. Party disputes and personal quarrels are the great business of the… — George Washington Copy Share Image
I think it's time we ask ourselves if we still know the freedoms that were intended for us by the Founding Fathers...… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“the all-time master of exits wanted to make his final departure from the public stage the occasion for explaining his own version… — Joseph J. Ellis Copy Share Image
