American Revolution Quotes - Page 5

• Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction?

  Patrick Henry

  Revolution, Action, American Freedom

  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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• What a glorious morning this is!

  Samuel Adams

  Morning, Revolution, Glorious

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• The two principles on which our conduct towards the Indians should be founded are justice and fear. After the injuries we have done them, they cannot love us.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Equality, Two, Justice

  Thomas Jefferson, Richard Holland Johnston, Thomas Jefferson memorial association of the United States (1907). “The writings of Thomas Jefferson”

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• 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

  Men, Boston, Tea

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton (2012). “The Woman's Bible”, p.141, tredition

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• Congress is responsible for everything and unable to do anything, hated by the public creditors, insulted by the soldiers and unsupported by the citizens.

  Benjamin Hawkins

  Soldier, Citizens, Revolution

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• The American war is over; but this far from being the case with the American revolution. On the contrary, nothing but the first act of the drama is closed. It remains yet to establish and perfect our new forms of government, and to prepare the principles, morals, and manners of our citizens for these forms of government after they are established and brought to perfection.

  Benjamin Rush

  War, Drama, Government

  Letter to Price, May 25, 1786.

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• You must not deprive the colonies of their right to make laws for themselves. Parliament should only make laws necessary for the empire as a whole.

  Thomas Hutchinson

  Law, Empires, Revolution

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• The epithets of parent and child have been long applied to Great Britain and her colonies, [but] we rarely see anything from your side of the water except the authoritative style of a master to a school-boy.

  George Mason

  Children, School, Boys

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• Now is the seedtime of continental union, faith and honor. The least fracture now, will be like a name engraved with the point of a pin on the tender rind of a young oak; the wound would enlarge with the tree, and posterity read in it full grown characters.

  Thomas Paine

  Character, Names, Tree

  Thomas Paine, John Dos Passos (2008). “The Essential Thomas Paine”, p.65, Courier Corporation

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• All power is lodged in, and consequently derived from, the people. We should wear it as a breastplate, and buckle it on as our armour.

  George Mason

  People, Revolution, Should

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• I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Liberty, May

  Thomas Jefferson, H. A. Washington (2011). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private”, p.165, Cambridge University Press

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• The eyes of all our countrymen are now upon us, and we shall have their blessings and praises, if happily we are the instruments of saving them from the tyranny meditated against them.

  George Washington

  Eye, Blessing, Saving

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1833). “The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts”, p.449

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• 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

  Wise, Gratitude, Powerful

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• If you were lost for America, there is nobody who could keep the army and the revolution [going] for six months.

  Marquis de Lafayette

  Army, America, Six Months

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• We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our power... the battle, sir, is not to the strong alone it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.

  Patrick Henry

  Strong, Mean, Brave

  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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• My fellow citizens, our nation is poised for greatness. We must do what we know is right, and do it with all our might. Let history say of us: "These were golden years - when the American Revolution was reborn, when freedom gained new life, and America reached for her best."

  Ronald Reagan

  Greatness, Years, America

  Second Inaugural Address, delivered 21 January 1985, Rotunda of the Capitol, Washington D.C.

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• Elections to office, which are the great objects of ambition, I look at with terror!

  John Adams

  Ambition, Office, Revolution

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• There! His Majesty can now read my name without glasses. And he can double the reward on my head!

  John Hancock

  Patriotic, Glasses, Names

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• Do you think if the stamp-act is repealed, that the North Americans will be satisfied?

  Peter Thomas

  Thinking, Revolution, Stamps

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• The American Revolution was the grand operation, which seemed to be assigned by the Deity to the men of this age in our country, over and above the common duties of life

  Patrick Henry

  Country, Men, Age

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

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• In comparison to the French Revolution, the American Revolution has come to seem a parochial and rather dull event. This, despitethe fact that the American Revolution was successful--realizing the purposes of the revolutionaries and establishing a durable political regime--while the French Revolution was a resounding failure, devouring its own children and leading to an imperial despotism, followed by an eventual restoration of the monarchy.

  Irving Kristol

  Children, Successful, Political

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• With regard to military discipline, I may safely say that no such thing existed in the Continental Army.

  Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben

  Military, Army, Discipline

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• To history therefore I must refer for answer, in which it would be an unhappy passage indeed, which should shew by what fatal indulgence of subordinate views and passions, a contest for an atom had defeated well founded prospects of giving liberty to half the globe.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Passion, Views, Giving

  Thomas Jefferson (1951). “The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: 18 June, 1779 to 30 September, 1780”

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• In short I must confide in you to take such care of the men under you as an economical householder would of his own family, doingevery thing within himself as far as he can, and calling for as few supplies as possible. The less you depend for supplies from this quarter, the less you will be disappointed.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Calling, Care

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• Has the grim savage rushed again from the wilderness? Or does some fiend... twang her deadly arrows at our breast? No, none of these: it is the hand of Britain that inflicts the wound.

  Joseph Warren

  Hands, Arrows, Doe

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