History Quote by Sarah Vowell

“Perhaps no two events ever united so intimately and forceably to combat and expel prejudice, as the Revolution of America, and the Alliance with…

— Thomas Paine

“Chapter 4 Tyranny Is Tyranny Around 1776, certain important people in the English colonies made a discovery that would prove enormously useful for the…

— Howard Zinn

“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

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

Any one who studies the state of things which preceded the French Revolution will see that that tremendous catastrophe came about from so excessive…

— Herbert Spencer

“The theories of the French revolutionaries, as summarized by historian Roger Hancock, were founded on "respect for no humanity except that which they proposed…

— Ann Coulter

“With the single exception of the American Revolution, the aftermath of all revolutions from 1789 on only worsened the human condition.”

— Arnold Beichman

The progress of the American Revolution has been so rapid and such the alteration of manners, the blending of characters, and the new train…

— Mercy Otis Warren

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

The American Revolution was, in fact, a battle against the philosophy of Locke and the English utilitarians.

— Robert Trout

“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

“Some say we invented a new way of living. Human Evolution, they called it. Piffle. That is the hubris of hindsight. I think what…

— J.D. Lakey