American Quote by Gore Vidal

“The Westminster government continued to aggravate the situation by haughty mismanagement, and on 4 July 1776 the Congress passed a Declaration of Independence from…

— Adam Zamoyski

“As a general rule the quelling of rebellion in distant colonies means protracted, thankless, invertebrate war. Campaigns”

— Charles Edward Callwell

The revolutionary war is a war of the masses; it can be waged only by mobilizing the masses and relying on them.

— Mao Zedong

Soldiers of the American Revolution fought that 18th century war with heavy muskets. In the early 20th century, we kids fought it every Fourth…

— Paul Engle

We should not forget that the spark which ignited the American Revolution was caused by the British attempt to confiscate the firearms of the…

— Patrick Henry

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

— Bernard Bailyn

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

— Benjamin Franklin

Taxation, the very thing that had triggered the British civil wars, would do so again, this time in America. The taxes may have been…

— Simon Schama

“the American Colonies. The Seven Years' War left England”

— William Roscoe Thayer

The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.

— Woodrow Wilson

When the Revolutionary War ended in 1781, not everyone was celebrating. It is estimated that between 15 and 20 percent of the population back…

— Rachel Martin