Quotes of: American-revolution Keyword

In terms of the revolution, I believe that the revolution will be a revolution of dispossessed people in this country: that's the Mexican American, the Puerto Rican American, the American Indian, and black people.

H. Rap Brown

The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.

Woodrow Wilson

The American war is over, but this is far from being the case with the American Revolution.

Benjamin Rush

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

Robert Trout

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

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

I don't fear fracking. I fear carbon

The Boom: How Fracking Ignited the American Energy Revolution and Changed the World

Before the American Revolution there were frequent slave uprisings, and a lot of people would run away.

Edward Ball

The study of history requires investigation, imagination, empathy, and respect. Reverence just doesn't enter into it.

The Whites of Their Eyes: The Tea Party's Revolution and the Battle over American History

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

For the primary goal of the American Revolution which transferred American life and introduced a new era in human history, was not the overthrow or even the alteration of the existing social order but the preservation of political liberty threatened ...

The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution

Take the time to get it right. There'll be gas tomorrow night

The Boom: How Fracking Ignited the American Energy Revolution and Changed the World

Adams had gone to Harvard, Jefferson to William and Mary. Washington had gone to war.

The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution, 1783-1789

The Constitution was intended less to resolve arguments than to make argument itself the solution.

The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution, 1783-1789

It took him (Washington) more than a year to gain control over his own aggressive instincts.

The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution, 1783-1789

Contemporaries of Alexander Hamilton noticed "his conspicuous sense of self-possession, his unique combination of serenity and energy.

The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution, 1783-1789

Fracking is different. The risks of any single well are tiny compared to a nuclear power plant. But several hundred wells? Several thousand?

The Boom: How Fracking Ignited the American Energy Revolution and Changed the World

With the single exception of the American Revolution, the aftermath of all revolutions from 1789 on only worsened the human condition.

Arnold Beichman

Would the Protestant Reformation have happened without the printing press? Would the American Revolution have happened without pamphlets? Probably not. But neither printing presses nor pamphlets were the heroes of reform and revolution.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Revolutionaries - true revolutionaries - are aggressive, ruthless, and generally seize the main chance, as William Henry Drayton did when he saw that stump-speaking was getting him nowhere. But defenders of the status quo tend toward caution and lega...

The Road to Guilford Courthouse: The American Revolution in the Carolinas