Memorable American Revolution Quotes

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"It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men."
Samuel Adams
"A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history."
Mohandas Gandhi
"The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph."
Thomas Paine
"Revolution is not a bed of roses. It is a struggle between the future and the past."
Fidel Castro
"To be good and virtuous is not enough; one must also be strong."
Benjamin Franklin
"We are not a fragile people; we are a resilient people."
David McCullough
"Liberty must at all hazards be supported. We have a right to it, derived from our maker."
John Adams
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"Never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them."
John F. Kennedy
"The price of liberty is eternal vigilance."
Thomas Jefferson
"The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed."
Steve Biko
"A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything."
Malcolm X
"Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly."
John F. Kennedy
"The right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
Second Amendment, U.S. Constitution
"The spirit of this age is that of liberty."
George Washington
"A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined; to which end a uniform and well-digested plan is requisite."
George Washington
"Independence means being able to choose your own destiny."
John Adams
"United we stand; divided we fall."
Aesop
"The man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life."
Charles Darwin
"No taxation without representation."
James Otis
"Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God."
Susan B. Anthony
"A little rebellion now and then is a good thing."
Thomas Jefferson
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"The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage."
Thucydides
"The entrails of the monarchy are the doors of liberty."
Robert Morris
"Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a seed of self-destruction."
Walter Lippmann
"One man with courage makes a majority."
Andrew Jackson
"A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul."
George Bernard Shaw
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction."
Ronald Reagan
"Justice is the constant and perpetual will to render to each one his due."
Domat
"Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government."
Thomas Jefferson
"The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday's logic."
Peter Drucker
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it."
Nelson Mandela
"Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom."
Benjamin Franklin
"A democracy is only as sound as its vote."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Liberty is the right to choose."
John Stuart Mill
"A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one."
Alexander Hamilton
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"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
"A government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
Abraham Lincoln
"It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds."
Samuel Adams
"There is nothing so terrifying as ignorance in action."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"In the course of history, there comes a time when a nation must choose to be a force for good or evil."
Henry A. Kissinger
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."
Thomas Jefferson
"The rights of the British Colonies asserted and proved."
James Otis
"Never underestimate the power of a few committed people to change the world."
Margaret Mead
"Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty."
Wendell Phillips
"If you love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace."
Samuel Adams
"United we stand, divided we fall."
Aesop (popularized during Revolutionary War)
"Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none."
Thomas Jefferson
"I am not a Virginian, but an American."
Patrick Henry
"History, in general, only informs us what bad government is."
Thomas Paine
"Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered."
Thomas Paine
"Taxation without representation is tyranny."
James Otis
"What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly."
Thomas Paine
"There are dangerous tendencies in government that might lead to tyranny."
James Madison
"A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate."
Thomas Jefferson
"The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government."
Thomas Paine
"I have not yet begun to fight!"
John Paul Jones
"A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right."
Thomas Paine
"The American people will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln
"It is in our lives and our behaviors that we manifest our deepest values."
César Chávez
"To be good, you must practice good; to be true, you must practice truth."
Thomas Jefferson
"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about answers."
Thomas Pynchon
"Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity."
Herbert Hoover
"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."
Thomas Paine
"A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined; to which end, a uniformed militia is their best security."
George Washington
"The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government."
Thomas Jefferson
"Those who are willing to give up freedom for temporary security deserve neither freedom nor security."
Benjamin Franklin
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
Thomas Jefferson
"It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority."
Benjamin Franklin
"What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value."
Thomas Paine
"The best way to predict your future is to create it."
Abraham Lincoln
"A nation’s greatness is measured by how it treats its weakest members."
Mahatma Gandhi
"Liberty is the right to choose; freedom is the result of that choice."
Friedrich Hayek
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"Give me liberty, or give me death!"
Patrick Henry
"We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately."
Benjamin Franklin
"I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country."
Nathan Hale
"The shot heard 'round the world."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"No taxation without representation!"
James Otis
"It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds."
Samuel Adams
"These are the times that try men's souls."
Thomas Paine
"Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God."
Benjamin Franklin
"Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties."
Milton
"The heart and soul of America is the way we think of ourselves, of our country, and of our faith."
James A. Garfield
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country."
Benjamin Franklin
"A people may let the plague of war overtake them, have their liberties stolen from them, yet they do not lose their spirit."
Thomas Jefferson
"An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come."
Victor Hugo
"The Constitution shall never be construed to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms."
Thomas Jefferson
"War is the health of the state."
Randolph Bourne
"Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth."
George Washington
"Ultimately, the government is just the people."
James Otis
"The great object is that every man be armed."
Patrick Henry
"To disarm the people is the best and most effective way to enslave them."
George Mason
"The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation."
Woodrow Wilson
"There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty that makes human nature rise above itself."
James Russell Lowell
"Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it."
Mark Twain
"Let us be wise in our love for freedom."
John Quincy Adams
"A revolution is not a bed of roses. It is a struggle between the future and the past."
Fidel Castro
"Freedom is never free."
Anonymous
"Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people."
John Adams
"Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!"
Patrick Henry
"These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman."
Thomas Paine
"Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes!"
William Prescott
"A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn into glorious success."
Elbert Hubbard (attributed to John Adams)
"If ever time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin."
Samuel Adams
"Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.'"
Winston Churchill (alluding to similar sentiments during the Am
"It is impossible to reason without arriving at a Supreme Being."
George Washington
"Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company."
George Washington
"Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected."
George Washington
"We are fighting, we have fought, for our liberties."
Abraham Clark
"The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more. I Am Not a Virginian, But an American!"
Patrick Henry
"Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism."
George Washington
"Without virtue there can be no liberty."
Benjamin Rush
"The die is now cast; the colonies must either submit or triumph."
George III
"There! His Majesty can now read my name without glasses. And he can double the reward on my head!"
John Hancock
"My brave fellows, we have done a good day's work."
Israel Putnam
"I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!"
Patrick Henry
"I shall strenuously recommend that this law be immediately repealed. It is simply impossible to enforce, except by military force, or general bloodshed."
Thomas Gage
"Our cause is just. Our union is perfect. Our internal resources are great, and, if necessary, foreign assistance is undoubtedly attainable."
John Dickinson
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