American Revolution Quotes - Page 8

• It is essential to our interest and the security of our colonies that the several nations or tribes of Indians... who live under our protection, should not be molested or disturbed.

  George III

  Essentials, Revolution, Tribes

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• Planted by your care? No! Your oppression planted them in America... nourished by your indulgence? They grew by your neglect of them... As soon as you began to care about them, that care was exercised in sending persons to rule over them... men whose behaviour on many occasions has caused the blood of those sons of liberty to recoil within them.

  Isaac Barre

  Son, Men, Blood

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• The King has degenerated into a tyrant and forfeits all rights to his subjects' obedience.

  Patrick Henry

  Kings, Rights, Tyrants

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

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• Virtual representation is so absurd as to not deserve an answer. I therefore pass it over with contempt.

  Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden

  Answers, Revolution, Absurd

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• The madness of mobs or the insolence of soldiers, or both, when too near to each other, occasion some mischief.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Soldier, Revolution, Madness

  Benjamin Franklin (1840). “The works of Benjamin Franklin: with notes and a life of the author by J. Sparks”, p.437

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• You and I love understanding American Revolution, but let's also understand the digital revolution, because that makes us more comfortable with our technology.

  Walter Isaacson

  Technology, Understanding, Revolution

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• If you want to be a great American, you have got to understand Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, how the American Revolution happened. I think if you want to be a good citizen of the digital age, it helps to feel comfortable with both the people and the ways of thinking that created the digital revolution.

  Walter Isaacson

  Thinking, People, Age

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• A reading of the Declaration of Independence on the steps of a building is widely covered. The events that started the American Revolution were the meetings in homes, pubs, on street corners.

  Harvey Milk

  Reading, Home, Independence

  Harvey Milk (2013). “An Archive of Hope: Harvey Milk's Speeches and Writings”, p.6, Univ of California Press

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• Obama is now fighting for his life. He's fighting for a federal government. I believe in a federal government. I hope it sticks around. We had the American Revolution. There was this whole tension between the federalists and the anti-federalists. Then we had the Civil War. We had Lincoln fighting for it. And the secessionists were there. And we have the same issue today.

  Oliver Stone

  War, Believe, Fighting

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• What if hamsters fought in the American Revolution?

  Colin Mochrie

  What If, Revolution, Hamsters

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• Well, I am actually a daughter of the American Revolution

  Katie Pavlich

  Daughter, Revolution, Wells

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• The die is cast. The people have passed the river and cut away the bridge. Last night three cargoes of tea were emptied into the harbor. This is the grandest event which has ever yet happened since the controversy with Britain opened.

  John Adams

  Cutting, Night, Bridges

  John Adams (1854). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.333

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• I was very strenuous for retaining and insisting on it [law of nature], as a resource to which we might be driven by Parliament much sooner than we were aware.

  John Adams

  Law, Might, Revolution

  John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1850). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.374

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• Several country towns, within my observation, have at least a dozen taverns. Here the time, the money, the health and the modesty, of most that are young and of many old, are wasted. Here diseases, vicious habits, bastards and legislators are frequently spawned.

  John Adams

  Country, Taverns, Dozen

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• You are a Virginian, and a Virginian ought to appear at the head of this business. I am obnoxious, suspected and unpopular; you are very much otherwise. And you can write ten times better than I can.

  John Adams

  Writing, Revolution, Obnoxious

  John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1850). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.514

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• During the whole time I sat with him in Congress, I never heard him utter three sentences together.

  John Adams

  Together, Revolution, Three

  John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1850). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: Diary, with passages from an autobiography. Notes of debates in the Continental Congress, in 1775 and 1776. Autobiography”, p.511

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• They tell us, sir, that we are weak; unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week, or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house?

  Patrick Henry

  Gun, Next Week, Years

  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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• On June 22, 2008, at the age of 71, an American revolutionary died. He was a bona fide genius, an outspoken critich, a literary giant and an unprecedented visionary. For 50 years he entertained, challenged and amazed not only my generation, but also ones before mine and well after. He was sensational, brilliant, iconic and unique - the quintessential individual. He was my lifelong hero. His name was George Carlin.

  Corey Taylor

  Hero, Memorable, Unique

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• Make no mistake; the American Revolution was not fought to obtain freedom, but to preserve the liberties that Americans already had as colonials. Independence was no conscious goal, secretly nurtured in cellar or jungle by bearded conspirators, but a reluctant last resort, to preserve "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."

  Samuel Eliot Morison

  Life, Mistake, Pursuit Of Happiness

  Samuel Eliot Morison (1972). “The Oxford history of the American people”, Signet

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• The American Revolution was a vindication of liberties inherited and possessed. It was a conservative revolution.

  William E. Gladstone

  Liberty, Revolution, Conservative

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• It's going to be like herding stray cats, and the political leaders who can do it will be remembered as the same kind of geniuses who pulled off the American Revolution.

  William H. Calvin

  Cat, Leader, Political

  William H. Calvin (2010). “Global Fever: How to Treat Climate Change”, p.177, William H. Calvin

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• Whatever deficiencies the leaders of the American Revolution may have had, reticence, fortunately, was not one of them.

  Bernard Bailyn

  Leader, May, Revolution

  "The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution". Book by Bernard Bailyn, August 1967.

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• Let this sad tale of death never be told without a tear: let every parent tell the shameful story to his listening children, till tears of pity glisten in their eyes, or boiling passion shakes their tender frames.

  John Hancock

  Children, Passion, Eye

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• This is where the Continental Congress met over two hundred years ago during the American Revolution. So, Lancaster was actually the capital of our nation for one day in 1977.

  Dan Quayle

  Years, Two, One Day

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• A revolution is bloody, but America is in a unique position. She's the only country in history in a position actually to become involved in a bloodless revolution. The Russian revolution was bloody, Chinese revolution was bloody, French revolution was bloody, Cuban revolution was bloody, and there was nothing more bloody then the American Revolution. But today this country can become involved in a revolution that won't take bloodshed. All she's got to do is give the black man in this country everything that's due him, everything.

  Malcolm X

  Country, Men, Unique

  "The Ballot or The Bullet (Detroit Version)". Malcolm X's speech at a meeting sponsored by the Congress for Racial Equality in Detroit, Michigan, April 12, 1964.

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