
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
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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