Art Quote by Andrei Codrescu

“I judged them against the country I knew, which had acquired the land through murder and tamed it under slavery, against the country whose…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“Nations, like individuals, have been always disposed from interest or vanity to forget their day of small things; like individuals, too, they have always…

— Hutcheson Macaulay Posnett

“But there never was a country, no matter how noble or well-intentioned, that wasn't infected by a greedy and power-hungry few.”

— Jonathan Maberry

“There could have been no such Revolution, if all laws, forms, and ceremonies, had not first been so monstrously abused, that the suicidal vengeance…

— Various

“The art of opposition and of revolution is to unsettle established customs, sounding them even to their source, to point out their want of…

— Blaise Pascal

The reason for all revolutions is discontent with the contentment of others.

— Sigmund Graff

“Nationalism may begin with ideas among the elite but its propagation involves having mass support. Initially, anti-colonial”

— Romila Thapar

“histories of the world before our own. That was a world of empires, of corruption, of war-and more freedom than I've ever known. But…

— Victoria Aveyard

“A nation is only an individual multiplied. It makes plans and Circumstances comes and upsets them—or enlarges them. Some patriots throw the tea overboard;…

— Mark Twain

“In reality, though, the first thing to ask of history is that it should point out to us the paths of liberty. The great…

— Anonymous

“IN THE BEGINNING, THERE WERE TWO NATIONS. ONE WAS A vast, mighty and magnificent empire, brilliantly organized and culturally unified, which dominated a massive…

— Alex von Tunzelmann

“For the primary goal of the American Revolution which transferred American life and introduced a new era in human history, was not the overthrow…

— Bernard Bailyn