“Once the American Revolution is understood as a civil war, much falls into place.” — Daniel Hannan Copy Share Image
Proceed, great chief, with virtue on thy sideThy every action let the goddess guide. — Phillis Wheatley Copy Share Image
“Don’t fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war, let it begin here.” — John Parker Copy Share Image
No man in his senses can hesitate in choosing to be free, rather than a slave. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Elections to office, which are the great objects of ambition, I look at with terror! — John Adams Copy Share Image
“Only she who attempts the absurd can ever achieve the impossible.” — Nancy Means Wright 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
The madness of mobs or the insolence of soldiers, or both, when too near to each other, occasion some mischief. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The New Englanders, by their canting, whining and insinuating tricks, have persuaded the rest of the colonies that the government is going… — Nicholas Cresswell Copy Share Image
This open resistance to [Parliament's] authority can only have found place among the lower and more ignorant of the people. — Henry Seymour Conway Copy Share Image
One of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of one's house. A man's house is his castle. — James Otis 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
“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
“Sometimes, as in the case of the American Revolution, crucial roles turn out to have been played by people who were not… — Niall Ferguson 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
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
The epithets of parent and child have been long applied to Great Britain and her colonies, [but] we rarely see anything from… — George Mason Copy Share Image
Has the grim savage rushed again from the wilderness? Or does some fiend... twang her deadly arrows at our breast? No, none… — Joseph Warren 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
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
“below. In an unclouded harmony of tastes and interests they cultivated ferns in Wardian cases, made macrame lace and wool embroidery on… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You are a Virginian, and a Virginian ought to appear at the head of this business. I am obnoxious, suspected and unpopular;… — John Adams 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
“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
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 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
“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
“Socially, politically, economically, militarily, culturally, racially, sexually, demographically, even mythologically, World War II was the crucible that forged modern America. It was… — Haynes Johnson Copy Share Image
“There was something else amusing about the house: the irony that the most important battle of the American Revolution--the shoot-out at the… — Josh Barkan Copy Share Image
Remember, officers and soldiers, that you are fighting for the blessings of liberty. — George Washington Copy Share Image
It cannot be good to tax the Americans... You will lose more than you gain. — Thomas Hutchinson Copy Share Image
We must be unanimous; there must be no pulling different ways; we must hang together. — John Hancock Copy Share Image
“God was not in the details for Jefferson; he was in the sky and stars.” — Joseph J. Ellis Copy Share Image
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