American revolution Quote by Patrick Henry

Remember, remember the fifth of November of gunpowder treason and plot. I know of no reason why the gun powder treason should ever be…

— Alan Moore

The British are the only people in history crass enough to have made revolutionaries out of Americans.

— Shashi Tharoor

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

There was too much hatred in the world; it was manifestly as dangerous as gunpowder, yet people let it lie about, in the way…

— Rebecca West

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 revolution not only cost Britain the 13 colonies but also forced it to rethink the slave trade and slavery, and influenced its…

— Linda Colley

From April 1775 to July 1776, the undeclared war between England and its American colonies smoldered, flared up, appeared to sputter out... It was…

— Gore Vidal

“It is the violence which is done and threatened to our persons; the destruction of our property by an armed force; the invasion of…

— Thomas Paine

We damaged all the big guns we could, and carried away the powder and the lead.

— Chief Joseph

The American Revolution and Declaration of Independence, it has often been argued, were fueled by the most radical of all American political ideas.

— Carl Bernstein

“America is the home of rifle shooting, and there is no doubt that Americans are....more "rifle-minded" than the British.”

— John "Pondoro" Taylor

You know, the taxing authority of the United States is our most powerful weapon. You know, the reason we separated from England was because…

— Judd Gregg