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American Revolution Quotes

The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.
- John Quincy Adams

The end of democracy and the defeat of the American Revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of lending institutions and moneyed incorporations.
- 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

Ben Franklin advises his grandson not to let even the American Revolution interrupt his studies, urging of young adulthood, This is the time of life in which you are to lay the foundations of your future improvement and of your importance among men. If this season is neglected, it will be like cutting off the spring from the year.
- H W Brands

The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus the American Revolution, from which little was expected, produced much; but the French Revolution, from which much was expected, produced little.
- Charles Caleb Colton

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

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

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

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

It was just so in the American Revolution, in 1776, the first delicacy the men threw overboard in Boston harbor was the tea, woman's favorite beverage. The tobacco and whiskey, though heavily taxed, they clung to with the tenacity of the devil-fish.
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

As time would prove, he had written one of the great, enduring documents of the American Revolution. The constitution of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is the oldest functioning written constitution in the world.
- David Mccullough

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

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

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

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

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

No Man has a more perfect reliance on the all-wise and powerful dispensations of the Supreme Being than I have, nor thinks his aid more necessary...The man must be bad indeed who can look upon the events of the American Revolution without feeling the warmest gratitude towards the great Author of the Universe whose divine interposition was so frequently manifested in our behalf....In war He directed the sword, and in peace, He has ruled in our councils.
- George Washington

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

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