American Quote by Priti Patel

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

Revolutions about taxation have shaped our history.

— Priti Patel

That is what is happening with the Tea Parties. I wrote a column called "The Second American Revolution" about the fact that people are…

— Nat Hentoff

The tea party movement sprung from plain old disenchantment, disappointment, and outright anger at being fleeced by a government who mistook their primary job…

— Dana Loesch

The tea party movement and its passion arose in response to trillion dollar deficits as far as the eye can see and out of…

— Ari Fleischer

The Tea Party movement is we the people who have been taxed enough already. I think that folks forget that this is not an…

— Sharron Angle

Every time there's a revolution, it comes from somebody reading a book about revolution. David Walker wrote a book and Nat Turner did his…

— Mike Tyson

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

— Bernard Bailyn

It's the occasion that makes the revolution.

— Machado de Assis

It was an easy thing to tax for a young country. And then gradually we moved to property taxes, manufacturing taxes, and the income…

— T.R. Reid

Let me tell you what the Tea Party stands for. It stands for the fact that we are taxed enough already.

— Michele Bachmann

The Tea Party, which is pretty darn clear on its main focus, which is fiscal restraint, financial restraint, economic restraint, and return to Constitutional…

— Andrew Breitbart