British Quote by Edmund Morgan

A government creates its own revolution. There can be no revolt without it.

— William Powell

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

The refusal of King George to allow the colonies to operate an honest money system, which freed the ordinary man from clutches of the…

— Benjamin Franklin

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 revolution not only cost Britain the 13 colonies but also forced it to rethink the slave trade and slavery, and influenced its…

— Linda Colley

Let us remember that revolutions do not always establish freedom. Our own free institutions were not the offspring of our revolution. They existed before.

— Millard Fillmore

We got our revolution out of the way long before the French and the Americans. The monarchy was restored, but the sovereignty of our…

— Robert Webb

Many of us came away from our youth thinking that the story of the Revolution was that the Americans were patriots fighting the oppressive…

— Nathaniel Philbrick

“Revolution was the great nightmare of eighteenth-century British society, and when first the American Revolution of 1776, then the French Revolution of 1789 overturned…

— Ronald Carter

In no obvious sense was the American Revolution undertaken as a social revolution.

— Bernard Bailyn

“Sometimes a revolution turns into an actual government, or at the very least an actual way of life that contrasts with days past like…

— Kelsey Brickl

[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