British Quote by Ronald Kessler

While most Americans know about the Boston Tea Party, few are aware of the Liberty Tree and how important it was to fanning the…

— Ronald Kessler

Tree of Liberty: A tree set up by the people, hung with flags and devices, and crowned with a cap of liberty. The Americans…

— E. Cobham Brewer

Our country was founded on protest. Otherwise, we would still be a colony of England.

— Stan Van Gundy

“The tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots . . . —Thomas Jefferson, 1787”

— Robert A. Heinlein

A reading of the Declaration of Independence on the steps of a building is widely covered. The events that started the American Revolution were…

— Harvey Milk

July 4, 1776 was the historic day on which the representatives of three millions of people vocalized Concord, and Lexington, and Bunker Hill, which…

— Calvin Coolidge

When this country here was first being founded, there were 13 colonies. The whites were colonized. They were fed up with this taxation without…

— Manning Marable

“In America, too, the reality behind the words of the Declaration of Independence (issued in the same year as Adam Smith’s capitalist manifesto, The…

— Howard Zinn

“The Westminster government continued to aggravate the situation by haughty mismanagement, and on 4 July 1776 the Congress passed a Declaration of Independence from…

— Adam Zamoyski

I was at St. Louis's very first tea party and stood across the mighty Mississippi on the Arch steps with a bunch of wide-eyed,…

— Dana Loesch

“This restoration was preceded by a long period of preparation. The Pilgrims and other Europeans were inspired to find this American haven of refuge…

— Spencer W. Kimball

This wasn’t just an attack against the Boston Marathon... It was an attack against the American public and our democratic use of the streets.…

— Amby Burfoot