Best American Revolution Lines
149 American Revolution quotes by 68 unique authors
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Perseverance and spirit have done wonders in all ages.
— George Washington
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The end of democracy and the defeat of the American Revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of lending institutions and moneyed incorporations.
— Thomas Jefferson
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... the connection between imperial politics and culture is astonishingly direct. American attitudes to American "greatness", to hierarchies of race, to the perils of "other"…
— Edward Said
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No Man has a more perfect reliance on the all-wise and powerful dispensations of the Supreme Being than I have, nor thinks his aid more…
— George Washington
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[L]iberty must at all hazards be supported. We have a right to it, derived from our Maker. But if we had not, our fathers have…
— John Adams
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Let justice be done though the heavens should fall.
— John Adams
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A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy. While the…
— Samuel Adams
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The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more. I Am Not A Virginian, But An American!
— Patrick Henry
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The battle, Sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. Besides, Sir, we have no election. If…
— Patrick Henry
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Three millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any…
— Patrick Henry
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Our properties within our own territories [should not] be taxed or regulated by any power on earth but our own.
— Thomas Jefferson
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Patriotism is as much a virtue as justice, and is as necessary for the support of societies as natural affection is for the support of…
— Benjamin Rush
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Everything that is right or reasonable pleads for separation. The blood of the slain, the weeping voice of nature cries, 'tis time to part.
— Thomas Paine
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A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.
— Alexander Hamilton
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It was just so in the American Revolution, in 1776, the first delicacy the men threw overboard in Boston harbor was the tea, woman's favorite…
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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It is when a people forget God, that tyrants forge their chains.
— Patrick Henry
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The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.
— Woodrow Wilson
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Would the Protestant Reformation have happened without the printing press? Would the American Revolution have happened without pamphlets? Probably not. But neither printing presses nor…
— Rebecca MacKinnon
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Before the American Revolution there were frequent slave uprisings, and a lot of people would run away.
— Edward Ball
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It's time we asked ourselves if we still know the freedoms intended for us by the Founding Fathers. James Madison said, We base all our…
— Ronald Reagan
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Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls. Contrary to what you've just seen, war is neither glamorous nor fun. There are no winners, only losers. There…
— Nancy Cartwright
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Were the radical democratic impulses of the American Revolution still driving US politics, it would be difficult to imagine corporatization of the kind witnessed today.…
— Ben Manski
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Divine right went out with the American Revolution and doesn't belong to the White House aides. What meat do they eat that makes them grow…
— Sam Ervin
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Brandon McCaw and Johnathan Goldsmith Dos Equis did a 500 billion page Essay Presentation based on the Economic issues proved particularly contentious is post-revolutionary America.…
— Brandon McCaw
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