American Revolution Quotes

Faced by the actual practice of freedom, the French and American revolutions would be forced to stand by their words. — William S. Burroughs

I am an aristocrat," Virginian John Randolph would explain decades after the American Revolution. "I love liberty; I hate equality. — Colin Woodard

Would it be such a terrible thing for us to fall in love?" he asked.
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"Ask me again in the morning. — Donna Thurland

Well, I am actually a daughter of the American Revolution — Katie Pavlich

These are the times that try men's souls. — Thomas Paine

What was the American Revolution? The people who joined to carry it out had different views of what they had done. — Edmund Morgan

I am a descendent of a whole bunch of Black folk who couldn't be broken. — Darnell Lamont Walker

Change represents the real spirit of democracy and the real America. — Bryant McGill

Without the pen of Paine, the sword of Washington would have been wielded in vain. — John Adams

Whatever deficiencies the leaders of the American Revolution may have had, reticence, fortunately, was not one of them. — Bernard Bailyn

In Detroit, in July of 1967, what happened was no less than a guerrilla uprising.
The Second American Revolution. — Jeffrey Eugenides

The American Revolution was a vindication of liberties inherited and possessed. It was a conservative revolution. — William E. Gladstone

What if hamsters fought in the American Revolution? — Colin Mochrie

In no obvious sense was the American Revolution undertaken as a social revolution. — Bernard Bailyn

What I want to accomplish artistically amounts to nothing more than fulfilling the promise of the American Revolution. — L. Neil Smith

One if by land, two if by sea. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The sexual revolution transformed the American West: Now even cowboys can get laid. — Edward Abbey

If there ever are great revolutions there, they will be caused by the presence of the blacks upon American soil. — Alexis De Tocqueville

Patriotism is as much a virtue as justice, and is as necessary for the support of societies as natural affection is for the support of families. — Benjamin Rush

We noted before that the passion of compassion was singularly absent from the minds and hearts of the men who made the American Revolution. — Hannah Arendt

My great-grandfather fought with the Colonial Army in New England in the American Revolution. — W.E.B. Du Bois

Jefferson appeared to his enemies as an American version of Candide; Hamilton as an American Machiavelli. — Joseph J. Ellis

The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more. I Am Not A Virginian, But An American! — Patrick Henry

Divine right went out with the American Revolution and doesn't belong to the White House aides. What meat do they eat that makes them grow so great? — Sam Ervin

The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation. — Woodrow Wilson

Our properties within our own territories [should not] be taxed or regulated by any power on earth but our own. — Thomas Jefferson

With the single exception of the American Revolution, the aftermath of all revolutions from 1789 on only worsened the human condition. — Arnold Beichman

Dealing with pain for surviving on this thirsty concrete — Kjiva

Don't fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war, let it begin here. — John Parker

It turns out one of my ancestors fought in the Continental Army, so I was inducted into the Sons of the American Revolution. — Henry Louis Gates

From Gandhi to Mandela, from the American patriot to the Polish shipbuilders, the makers of revolutions have not come from the top. — Gary Hamel

Remove yourself, sir! — David McCullough

If the American Revolution had produced nothing but the Declaration of Independence, it would have been worthwhile. — Samuel Eliot Morison

If the cause is advanced, indifferent is it to me where or in what quarter it happens. — George Washington

Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction? — Patrick Henry

I find American girls have a spirit and honesty about them that is most refreshing. — Ann Rinaldi

The American war is over, but this is far from being the case with the American Revolution. — Benjamin Rush

God was not in the details for Jefferson; he was in the sky and stars. — Joseph J. Ellis

I have not yet begun to fight. — John Paul Jones

Before the American Revolution there were frequent slave uprisings, and a lot of people would run away. — Edward Ball

I don't know what the next American revolution is going to be like, but we might be able to imagine it if your imagination were rich enough. — Grace Lee Boggs

One of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of one's house. A man's house is his castle. — James Otis

I fear we may live to see another revolution. — John Marshall

When we talk about the decline of the American family, I think we have to go back to the Industrial Revolution. — Donald Miller

What a glorious morning this is! — Samuel Adams

It would be a foetus of monarchy! — Edmund Randolph

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

In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution. — Thomas Jefferson

I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way. — John Paul Jones

Historically, a Canadian is an American who rejects the Revolution. — Northrop Frye

The American Revolution and Declaration of Independence, it has often been argued, were fueled by the most radical of all American political ideas. — Carl Bernstein

The American people are becoming more and more afraid of, and are running away from, their own revolution. — Leonard Read