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“In this book the reader will find, I hope, an antidote for historical amnesia. To this day, the public remembers the Revolution mostly in…

— Gary B. Nash

The heritage of the American Revolution is forgotten, and the American government, for better and for worse, has entered into theheritage of Europe as…

— Hannah Arendt

“In other words, ideas, when implemented, turn into precedents with unpredictable and potentially disturbing consequences. As the British historian and politician Lord Acton described…

— Sarah Vowell

The American Revolution represented the informed and mature convictions of a great mass of independent, liberty-loving, God-fearing people who knew their rights, and possessed…

— Calvin Coolidge

“Socially, politically, economically, militarily, culturally, racially, sexually, demographically, even mythologically, World War II was the crucible that forged modern America. It was the transforming…

— Haynes Johnson

“Chapter 4 Tyranny Is Tyranny Around 1776, certain important people in the English colonies made a discovery that would prove enormously useful for the…

— Howard Zinn

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 revolution of the United States was the result of a mature and dignified taste for freedom, and not of a vague or ill-defined…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“Americans face a choice: you can rediscover the animating principles of the American idea--of limited government, a self-reliant citizenry, and the opportunities to exploit…

— Mark Steyn

Make no mistake; the American Revolution was not fought to obtain freedom, but to preserve the liberties that Americans already had as colonials. Independence…

— Samuel Eliot Morison

The American idea my ancestors fought for during the Revolutionary War is as exciting and revolutionary today as it was 250 years ago.

— Madison Cawthorn

In comparison to the French Revolution, the American Revolution has come to seem a parochial and rather dull event. This, despitethe fact that the…

— Irving Kristol