American revolution Quote by Daniel Hannan

“The Civil War was pre-eminently a political war, a war of peoples rather than of professional armies.”

— James M. McPherson

“I am passionately interested in how my Country works, and if you want to know about this thing called the United States of America,…

— Ken Burns

“of the Civil War. They became famously”

— John Metcalfe

“The war and the revolution are inseparable.”

— George Orwell

“Supposedly, there was a civil war going on and my brother was part of it. Welcome to the struggle.”

— James Cox

“All war is civil war, for it is always man against man, spilling his own blood, tearing out his own entrails.”

— Fenelon Bonavides Neto

“Violent overthrow of the revolution is revolutionary, and compromise with the revolution is revolutionary.”

— Douglas Wilson

“Why do they call them civil wars when they always are so extraordinarily uncivil?”

— Elizabeth Fitch

“When the subject has refused allegiance and the officer has resigned his office, then the revolution is accomplished.”

— Henry David Thoreau

“In the decades following the Revolution, America changed so much and so rapidly that Americans not only became used to change, but came to…

— Gordon S. Wood

“Has there ever been a country that, once colonized, avoided civil war?”

— Roma Tearne

“There never will be anything more interesting than that American Civil War.”

— Gertrude Stein