American revolution Quote by Steven L. Harrison

“She saw at last that her strange son was fired by some purpose which he would carry out or die. Seeing that, she finally…

— Nancy Byrd Turner

“He had let Aunt Peg live in his house and married her, so clearly he had a thing for flaky American types who liked…

— Maureen Johnson

“In case anyone in America had missed the utter helplessness of their government, 4,000 British troops captured and burned Washington DC. The Presidential mansion,…

— Andrew Lambert

“While the folks at home embraced him as an improbable hero, Washington was denigrated in England as a reckless young warrior and in France…

— Ron Chernow

“Taking on Washington was the fastest way to commit political suicide in the revolutionary era.”

— Joseph J. Ellis

“Lee wrote, “[and] lament with you that fatal indecision of mind which in war is a much greater disqualification than stupidity or even want…

— Nathaniel Philbrick

“The anger that was coursing through America deeply worried her. Although she was too young to remember the beginnings of the civil rights, anti–Vietnam…

— John Sandford

“she had fought hotly against injustice, vanity, and blind, towering stupidity. Occasionally, on the battlefield where death was a reality, she had won. But…

— Anne Perry

“It was Plutarch, you know, and nothing intrinsically American that prevented George Washington being a King...”

— H.G. Wells

“Five years later, 750,000 Americans were dead. But the fact that such carnage had been wreaked for a cause that Ulysses S. Grant called…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“She had never been out of England before, she would rather die than trust herself friendless in a foreign country, and so forth. She…

— H.G. Wells

“After being approached at his mother’s funeral by a man who told him that Mary had “single-handedly saved America’s space program…and nobody knows it…

— Sam Maggs