American Quote by Madison Cawthorn

“In this book the reader will find, I hope, an antidote for historical amnesia. To this day, the public remembers the Revolution mostly in…

— Gary B. Nash

The life my grandparents had was thoroughly American. They built a small ranch into a huge operation and fulfilled my great-grandparents' dreams. Theirs was...…

— Dana Perino

“It is important for upcoming activists to study American history, as well as political and philosophical thought. It is unlikely that what you hope…

— John Lewis

We are in a strange period of history in which a revolutionary has to be a patriot and a patriot has to be a…

— George Orwell

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

Some of my ancestors fought in the American Revolution. A few more wore red coats, a few wore blue coats, and the rest wore…

— Edward Abbey

In my grandfather's day, there was a different perspective on war and men that went into war; it was such a patriotic act to…

— Ashton Holmes

I feel that I am a citizen of the American dream and that the revolutionary struggle of which I am a part is a…

— Eldridge Cleaver

The Americans of 1776 were among the first men in modern society to defend rather than to seek an open society and constitutional liberty……

— Clinton Rossiter

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 whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance, a revolutionary crisis, or a battle.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

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