America Quote by Murray Bookchin

I think that most people don't think in terms of an American revolution, they think in terms of a Russian revolution, or even a…

— Grace Lee Boggs

In comparison to the French Revolution, the American Revolution has come to seem a parochial and rather dull event. This, despitethe fact that the…

— Irving Kristol

The heritage of the American Revolution is forgotten, and the American government, for better and for worse, has entered into theheritage of Europe as…

— Hannah Arendt

But what do we mean by the American Revolution? Do we mean the American war? The Revolution was effected before the war commenced. The…

— John Adams

Since the middle of the twentieth century, our understanding of the American past has been revolutionized, in no small part because of our altered…

— Drew Gilpin Faust

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

— William E. Gladstone

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

“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

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

As a political metaphor, a revolution could, in that sense, mean only a return to better times, or to the true constitution: a ridding…

— Ian Hacking

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

— Bernard Bailyn

It was a real revolution. But with one missing feature. That is the feeling in a people that "We have done it once, and…

— Neal Ascherson