American revolution Quote by Dinesh D'Souza

The American Revolution was a vindication of liberties inherited and possessed. It was a conservative revolution.

— William E. Gladstone

Our freedoms were born in the ideals of the Enlightenment and the musket fires of an historic revolution.

— John Boehner

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

In the years since then, those four freedoms - freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear - have…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

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

Freedom. Freedom of religion. Freedom to speak their mind. Freedom to build a life. And yes, freedom to build a business. With their own…

— Mitt Romney

Today, we're fighting a new war to defend our liberty and our people and our way of life. And as we work to advance…

— George W. Bush

“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

Reagan's story of freedom superficially alludes to the Founding Fathers, but its substance comes from the Gilded Age, devised by apologists for the robber…

— Bill Moyers

Conservatives who defend libertinism as liberty misunderstand what our Founding Fathers meant. We all love freedom. But freedom has a higher purpose, as should…

— Michael J. Knowles

Freedom is not just something with which we are born; it is something we achieve. America did not receive a perpetual endowment of freedom;…

— Fulton J. Sheen

What is the essence of America? Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom 'to' and freedom 'from.'

— Marilyn vos Savant