American Revolution Quotes - Page 4

• The progress of the American Revolution has been so rapid and such the alteration of manners, the blending of characters, and the new train of ideas that almost universally prevail, that the principles which animated to the noblest exertions have been nearly annihilated.

  Mercy Otis Warren

  Character, Ideas, Progress

  Mercy Otis Warren (1805). “History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution: Interspersed with Biographical, Political and Moral Observations”, p.4

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• We really only came around to accepting and integrating the propositional dimension of identity into a concept of ourselves at the time of the American Revolution.

  Samuel P. Huntington

  Identity, Revolution, Dimensions

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• The times that tried men's souls are over-and the greatest and completest revolution the world ever knew, gloriously and happily accomplished.

  Thomas Paine

  Men, Soul, World

  Thomas Paine (1839). “The Crisis: A Work Written While with the Army of the Revolution, with a View of Stimulating that Patriotic Band to Persevere in Their Glorious Struggle for the Rights of Man”, p.256

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• Proceed, great chief, with virtue on thy sideThy every action let the goddess guide.

  Phillis Wheatley

  Revolution, Action, Goddess

  Phillis Wheatley, “His Excellency General Washington”

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• That these are our grievances which we have thus laid before his majesty, with that freedom of language and sentiment which becomes a free people claiming their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Rights, Law, People

  Thomas Jefferson, Jean M. Yarbrough (1963). “The Essential Jefferson”, p.16, Hackett Publishing

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• There were people who said the Society of Cincinnati in the American revolution, of which George Washington was one of the shining lights, was a branch of the Illuminati.

  Carroll Quigley

  Light, People, Shining

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• So far as the economic condition of society and the general mode of living and thinking were concerned, I might claim to have lived in the time of the American Revolution.

  Simon Newcomb

  Thinking, Might, Revolution

  Simon Newcomb (1903). “The reminiscences of an astronomer”, Harper and Brothers

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• It can not be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians, not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ!

  Unknown

  Bible, God, Education

  Patrick Henry (2007). “Patrick Henry in his speeches and writings and in the words of his contemporaries”, Warwick House Publishing

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  A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Voting, Politics, Danger

  Alexander Hamilton, Donald R. Hickey, Connie D. Clark (2006). “Citizen Hamilton: The Wit and Wisdom of an American Founder”, p.105, Rowman & Littlefield

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• A great empire and little minds go ill together.

  Edmund Burke

  Mind, Together, Littles

  Speech 'On Conciliation with America' 22 March 1775

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• The only foundation of a free Constitution, is pure Virtue, and if this cannot be inspired into our People, in a great Measure, than they have it now. They may change their Rulers, and the forms of Government, but they will not obtain a lasting Liberty.

  John Adams

  Government, People, Liberty

  Letter to Zabdiel Adams, "Letters of Delegates to Congress: Volume 4", memory.loc.gov. June 21, 1776.

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• Let us therefore animate and encourage each other, and show the whole world that a Freeman, contending for liberty on his own ground, is superior to any slavish mercenary on earth.

  George Washington

  Patriotic, Liberty, World

  George Washington, John Clement Fitzpatrick, David Maydole Matteson (1776). “The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources, 1745-1799”, p.212

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• We are determined to listen to nothing from the illegal congress.

  George III

  Revolution, Determined, Illegal

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• It cannot be good to tax the Americans... You will lose more than you gain.

  Thomas Hutchinson

  Gains, Revolution, Taxes

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• The Stamp Act was a direct tax imposed on the colonies by King George III. This act inevitably led to the American Revolution. Just as the Stamp Act did in 1765, Obamacare should act as a wake-up call. Chief Justice Roberts provides us with a similar call to action.

  Rand Paul

  Kings, Obamacare, Justice

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• Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying supinely on our backs and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot?

  Patrick Henry

  Lying, Mean, Hands

  Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death, delivered 23 March 1775 at Henrico Parrish Church St, Richmond Virginia, Second Virginia Convention

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• No parts of his Majesty's dominions can be taxed without their consent.

  James Otis

  Taxation Without Representation, Majesty, Dominion

  James Otis (1769). “A vindication of the British colonies: By James Otis, Esq; of Boston..”, p.40

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• 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

  Men, House, Liberty

  Argument against the writs of assistance, Boston, Mass., Feb. 1761. Burton Stevenson, Home Book of Proverbs, Maxims and Familiar Phrases (1948), traces the proverb "A man's house is his castle" back to 1567 and notes legal usages of it by Sir Edward Coke in the seventeenth century. See Coke 1; Coke 8; William Pitt, Earl of Chatham 2

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• All men are created equal and have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Pursuit Of Happiness, Men, Liberty

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• Soldiers of the American Revolution fought that 18th century war with heavy muskets. In the early 20th century, we kids fought it every Fourth of July not only with exploding powder and shimmering flares, but with all of our senses.

  Paul Engle

  War, Kids, July

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• On the subject of the history of the American Revolution, you ask who shall write it? Who can write it? And who will ever be able to write it? Nobody, except merely its external facts... all its councils, designs and discussions having been conducted by Congress [behind] closed doors - and no members, as far as I know, having even made notes of them. These, which are the life and soul of history, must forever be unknown.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Writing, Doors, Forever

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• The wind bit hard at Valley Forge one Christmas.
  Soldiers tied rags on their feet.
  Red footprints wrote on the snow...

  Carl Sandburg

  War, Wind, Feet

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.282, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We began a contest for liberty ill provided with the means for the war, relying on our patriotism to supply the deficiency. We expected to encounter many wants and distressed we must bear the present evils and fortitude

  George Washington

  War, Mean, Evil

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• Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!

  Samuel Adams

  Gun, Hands, Security And Freedom

  Samuel Adams' Speech delivered at the State House in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, August 1, 1776.

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• Issue the orders, sir, and I will storm hell!

  Anthony Wayne

  Issues, Order, Storm

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