Arbitrary Quote by Joseph Sobran

One of the things about George III is that he was aware that the monarchy was slipping away. There was revolution in the air…

— Nigel Hawthorne

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

George Washington might have become our king, but chose not to. His governing idea was that government is our servant because we are inherently…

— Dick Armey

“Chapter 4 Tyranny Is Tyranny Around 1776, certain important people in the English colonies made a discovery that would prove enormously useful for the…

— Howard Zinn

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

George VI in the conventional parlance was a Good King who sacrificed his life to his sense of duty. If we are to have…

— A. J. P. Taylor

“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

Besides, we had a large debt, contracted at home and abroad in our War of Independence; therefore the great power of taxation was conferred…

— Robert Toombs

Our founding fathers declared independence from Great Britain because they were dissatisfied with the laws and policies that they believed abridged their freedoms. Had…

— Stan Van Gundy

“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

“It was because 'in 1776 our fathers retired the gods from politics.' The basic principle of the American Republic is the freedom of man…

— Joseph Lewis

“Now, it’s a pity that your schools no longer teach the same language in which the Declaration and the Constitution were written because you’ve…

— Jack Pelham