Causes Quote by Benjamin Franklin

The colonies would gladly have borne the little tax on tea and other matters had it not been that England took away from the…

— Benjamin Franklin

[It was] the poverty caused by the bad influence of the English bankers on the Parliament which has caused in the colonies hatred of…

— Benjamin Franklin

The British government had not engaged in any serious actual oppression of the colonies before 1774, but it had claimed powers not granted by…

— Edmund Morgan

The colonies started to issue their own money and stopped using the Bank of England, which was what precipitated the war because you can't…

— Bruce H. Lipton

By today’s standards King George III was a very mild tyrant indeed. He taxed his American colonists at a rate of only pennies per…

— Joseph Sobran

“Carl Degler says (Out of Our Past): “No new social class came to power through the door of the American revolution. The men who…

— Howard Zinn

“Yet when the masses turn (as turn they will one day) and try to end the tyranny of centuries, not only the tyrants but…

— C.L.R. James

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

— Jack McDevitt

From 1789, perhaps even before that, it had been the willingness of politicians to exploit either the threat or the fact of violence that…

— Simon Schama

If England became a world power, it was because of the industrial revolution.

— N. R. Narayana Murthy

“the crisis that came upon the English colonies in the American Revolution was constitutional. It raised the question of how men should be governed,…

— Robert Middlekauff

“Here is the salient fact which distinguishes the English Revolution from all others: that those who wielded irresistible physical force were throughout convinced that…

— Winston Churchill