American revolution Quotes

Why can I not fight for my country too?

— Deborah Sampson

The shot heard round the world.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I fear we may live to see another revolution.

— John Marshall

“Remove yourself, sir!”

— David McCullough

These are the times that try men's souls.

— Thomas Paine

“One if by land, two if by sea.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

It would be a foetus of monarchy!

— Edmund Randolph

What a glorious morning this is!

— Samuel Adams

Perseverance and spirit have done wonders in all ages.

— George Washington

Well, I am actually a daughter of the American Revolution

— Katie Pavlich

The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.

— Woodrow Wilson

Our countrymen have all the folly of the ass and all the passiveness of the sheep.

— Alexander Hamilton

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

— George Washington

The American war is over, but this is far from being the case with the American Revolution.

— Benjamin Rush

No parts of his Majesty's dominions can be taxed without their consent.

— James Otis

“Change represents the real spirit of democracy and the real America.”

— Bryant McGill

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

— Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden

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

— Thomas Gage

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

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

All men are created equal and have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

— Thomas Jefferson

I feel that we have some opportunity in North America to go back and say the American Revolution was the real thing.

— Murray Bookchin

The end of democracy and the defeat of the American Revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of lending institutions…

— Thomas Jefferson

There! His Majesty can now read my name without glasses. And he can double the reward on my head!

— John Hancock

There are cases - for example, the American Revolution. George Washington's army lost just about every battle with the British, who had…

— Noam Chomsky

The Army, as usual, are without pay; and a great part of the soldiery without shirts; and though the patience of them…

— George Washington

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

My fellow citizens, our nation is poised for greatness. We must do what we know is right, and do it with all…

— Ronald Reagan

In short I must confide in you to take such care of the men under you as an economical householder would of…

— Thomas Jefferson

If our country, when pressed with wrongs at the point of the bayonet, had been governed by its heads instead of its…

— Thomas Jefferson

Despite a certain amount of rhetoric, such as 'the second American Revolution,' there is a fair consensus about which events in the…

— Ian Hacking

I can't rightly say where deciding to write about the American Revolution came from; I had bits and pieces of information about…

— Gary Paulsen

“Money bought access. But the Second American Revolution had happened, people began taking the Constitution seriously again, and the practice of renting…

— Jack McDevitt

“The prominent British statesman and scholar Edmund Burke (1729–1797) emphasized another fundamental characteristic of the civil society—valuing human experience, tradition, and custom.…

— Mark R. Levin

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

“Think of George Washington, putting everything he had into the American Revolution, and then saying, “The event is in the hand of…

— Ryan Holiday

“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

“Lincoln embraced the Declaration of Independence before and during the Civil War to justify both prosecuting the war and abolishing slavery, Wilson…

— Mark R. Levin

“The major premises of Christian religions are (1) the idea of Original Sin and (2) the belief in salvation through faith. Deists…

— Monica Sjöö

“The idea of labor, of hard work, leading to increased productivity was so novel, so radical, in the overall span of Western…

— Gordon S. Wood