American Quote by Linda Colley

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 American Revolution was, in fact, a battle against the philosophy of Locke and the English utilitarians.

— Robert Trout

The American Revolution was a small part of a major world war going on between France and England, so the French intervened and that…

— Noam Chomsky

The central fact of North American history is that there were fifteen British Colonies before 1776. Thirteen rebelled and two did not.

— June Callwood

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

“So it might be speculated that the British exported their dissidents and so suffered their revolution three thousand miles away from home in the…

— Timothy C.W. Blanning

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

— William E. Gladstone

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

[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

Revisiting the Revolutionary War is a bracing reminder that the fate of a continent, and the shape of the modern world, turned on the…

— Anonymous

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

Every human on the planet is descended from both slaves and slave owners. What makes Britain unusual is not that we engaged in the…

— Daniel Hannan