American Revolution Quotes
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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
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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
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 Second American Revolution. — Jeffrey Eugenides
I fear we may live to see another revolution.
— John Marshall
God was not in the details for Jefferson; he was in the sky and stars.
— Joseph J. Ellis
The American war is over, but this is far from being the case with the American Revolution.
— Benjamin Rush
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
Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction?
— Patrick Henry
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
Remove yourself, sir!
— David McCullough
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
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
The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more. I Am Not A Virginian, But An American!
— Patrick Henry
What if hamsters fought in the American Revolution?
— Colin Mochrie
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
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
If the cause is advanced, indifferent is it to me where or in what quarter it happens.
— George Washington
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
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