American revolution Quote by Tom Robbins

“In addition, it seemed unlikely that one nation could govern an entire continent. The distances were just too great. A critical fact in the…

— Stephen E. Ambrose

“America has always been torn between the ideal and the real, between noble goals and inevitable compromises. So was Jefferson. In his head and…

— Jon Meacham

“When we seek to understand liberty, equality, progress, constitutional governance, separation of church and state, and the meaning of the American Revolution, we do…

— R.B. Bernstein

“A morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare as to be always valuable. Thomas Jefferson”

— Tim Grove

“Screw you, you sons of bitches. I may be just a goddamn Jew Red to you, but I'm keeping Jefferson alive!”

— I.F. Stone

“America's greatest revelation was not the atom bomb, not Fundamentalism, not fat farms, not Elvis, not even the quite astute observation that gentlemen prefer…

— Marisha Pessl

“Sometimes, as in the case of the American Revolution, crucial roles turn out to have been played by people who were not leaders but…

— Niall Ferguson

“Jefferson appeared to his enemies as an American version of Candide; Hamilton as an American Machiavelli.”

— Joseph J. Ellis

“Thomas Jefferson had rather serious concerns about the fate of the democratic experiment.28 He feared the rise of a new form of absolutism that…

— Noam Chomsky

“Jefferson could write, “I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just.”

— Stephen E. Ambrose

“...liberty ran its fingers through my hair, reaching straight to my soul.”

— Amy K. Sorrells

“In the decades following the Revolution, America changed so much and so rapidly that Americans not only became used to change, but came to…

— Gordon S. Wood