America Quote by Samuel Eliot Morison

The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.

— Woodrow Wilson

No revolution is worth anything unless it can defend itself.

— Vladimir Lenin

It's worth noting that at the time of the American Revolution, no sane person would have given two cents for its success.

— Diana Gabaldon

Remember that the revolution is what is important, and each one of us, alone, is worth nothing.

— Che Guevara

If the American Revolution had produced nothing but the Declaration of Independence, it would have been worth while. . . . The beauty and…

— Samuel Eliot Morison

“The Declaration of Independence states that we the people have the right to revolution, the right to overthrow a government that has committed abuses…

— Rodolpho Gonzales

“The revolution of the United States was the result of a mature and dignified taste for freedom, and not of a vague or ill-defined…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Make no mistake; the American Revolution was not fought to obtain freedom, but to preserve the liberties that Americans already had as colonials. Independence…

— Samuel Eliot Morison

“Without Thomas Jefferson and his Declaration of Independence, there would have been no American revolution that announced universal principles of liberty. Without his participation…

— Christopher Hitchens

Variety made the Revolution. Liberty was just a pretext.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

I feel that we have some opportunity in North America to go back and say the American Revolution was the real thing.

— Murray Bookchin

“For the primary goal of the American Revolution which transferred American life and introduced a new era in human history, was not the overthrow…

— Bernard Bailyn