The 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. ...
"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
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
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
If the cause is advanced, indifferent is it to me where or in what quarter it happens.
— George Washington
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
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
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
When we talk about the decline of the American family, I think we have to go back to the Industrial Revolution.
— Donald Miller
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
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
If the American Revolution had produced nothing but the Declaration of Independence, it would have been worthwhile.
— Samuel Eliot Morison
The American Revolution was a vindication of liberties inherited and possessed. It was a conservative revolution.
— William E. Gladstone
With the single exception of the American Revolution, the aftermath of all revolutions from 1789 on only worsened the human condition.
— Arnold Beichman
The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.
— Woodrow Wilson
The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more. I Am Not A Virginian, But An American!
— Patrick Henry
My great-grandfather fought with the Colonial Army in New England in the American Revolution.
— W.E.B. Du Bois
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
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
If there ever are great revolutions there, they will be caused by the presence of the blacks upon American soil.
— Alexis De Tocqueville
What I want to accomplish artistically amounts to nothing more than fulfilling the promise of the American Revolution.
— L. Neil Smith
What if hamsters fought in the American Revolution?
— Colin Mochrie