I am determined to defend my rights and maintain my freedom or sell my life in the attempt. — Nathanael Greene Copy Share Image
For the fate of Charles the first, hath only made kings more subtle — not more just. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The rebels did more in one night than my whole army would have done in one month. — 5th Viscount Howe William Howe Copy Share Image
The American Revolution and Declaration of Independence, it has often been argued, were fueled by the most radical of all American political… — Carl Bernstein Copy Share Image
Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt. — Samuel Adams 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
We really only came around to accepting and integrating the propositional dimension of identity into a concept of ourselves at the time… — Samuel P. Huntington 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
There is such an equality among them that the officers have no authority. The privates are all generals, but not soldiers. — Bernard Law Montgomery Copy Share Image
Our properties within our own territories [should not] be taxed or regulated by any power on earth but our own. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We boast of our freedom, and we have your example for it. We talk the language we have always heard you speak. — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Objects of the most stupendous magnitude, and measure in which the lives and liberties of millions yet unborn are intimately interested, are… — John Adams Copy Share Image
James Watt patented his steam engine on the eve of the American Revolution, consummating a relationship between coal and the new Promethean… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
“For years after the American Revolution, the public opposed the creation of police departments, fearing that they would become forces of repression.… — David Grann 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
It is yet to be decided whether the Revolution must ultimately be considered as a blessing or a curse: a blessing or… — George Washington Copy Share Image
“Ben Franklin advises his grandson not to let even the American Revolution interrupt his studies, urging of young adulthood, "This is the… — H.W. Brands 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
That is what is happening with the Tea Parties. I wrote a column called "The Second American Revolution" about the fact that… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
“Chapter 4 Tyranny Is Tyranny Around 1776, certain important people in the English colonies made a discovery that would prove enormously useful… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
... the connection between imperial politics and culture is astonishingly direct. American attitudes to American "greatness", to hierarchies of race, to the… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
“It was because 'in 1776 our fathers retired the gods from politics.' The basic principle of the American Republic is the freedom… — Joseph Lewis Copy Share Image
“They tell us, sir, that we are weak; unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger?… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
“While the sanitizers and rewriters of history have gone to enormous lengths to portray the second American revolution, also known as the… — Joseph Befumo 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
“Revolution was the great nightmare of eighteenth-century British society, and when first the American Revolution of 1776, then the French Revolution of… — Ronald Carter Copy Share Image
“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
My great-grandfather fought with the Colonial Army in New England in the American Revolution. — W. E. B. Du Bois 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
During the whole time I sat with him in Congress, I never heard him utter three sentences together. — John Adams Copy Share Image
There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
Before the American Revolution there were frequent slave uprisings, and a lot of people would run away. — Edward Ball Copy Share Image
If you were lost for America, there is nobody who could keep the army and the revolution [going] for six months. — Marquis de Lafayette Copy Share Image
Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
You must not deprive the colonies of their right to make laws for themselves. Parliament should only make laws necessary for the… — Thomas Hutchinson Copy Share Image
The American revolutionaries believed in the power of the word. But they had only word of mouth and the printing press. We… — Robert Darnton Copy Share Image
It's going to be like herding stray cats, and the political leaders who can do it will be remembered as the same… — William H. Calvin 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
Let us therefore rely on the goodness of the cause, and the aid of the supreme Being, in whose hands victory is,… — George Washington Copy Share Image
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