American Revolution Quotes

• 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
  • Grandson
  • American Revolution
  • Ben Franklin

• In no obvious sense was the American Revolution undertaken as a social revolution.

  

  Bernard Bailyn
  • Sense
  • Social Revolution
  • American Revolution

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

  

  Bernard Bailyn
  • Leaders
  • Deficiencies
  • American Revolution

• 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
  • American Revolution
  • Beverage
  • Taxed

• 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 by the apparent corruption of the constitution, and the establishment in principle of the existing conditions of liberty.

  

  Bernard Bailyn
  • Goal
  • Constitution
  • Human History

• 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
  • Meetings
  • Declaration of Independence
  • American Revolution