Quotes for All
Not only the financial power, but also the legal power, has remained seated in Britain. The Washington Post commented on June 18, 1983 that after the American Revolution, all the old laws remained in effect in the new United States: Some of these laws of English common law dated back to 1278, long before America … Read more
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
… the connection between imperial politics and culture is astonishingly direct. American attitudes to American \”greatness\”, to hierarchies of race, to the perils of \”other\” revolutions (the American revolution being considered unique and somehow unrepeatable anywhere else in the world) have remained constant, have dictated, have obscured, the realities of empire, while apologists for overseas … Read more
Some of my ancestors fought in the American Revolution. A few more wore red coats, a few wore blue coats, and the rest wore no coats at all. We never did figure out who won that war. Edward Abbey
It would be a foetus of monarchy! Edmund Randolph
A great empire and little minds go ill together. Edmund Burke
With regard to military discipline, I may safely say that no such thing existed in the Continental Army. Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben
Why can I not fight for my country too? Deborah Sampson
This was the first Memorial Day [Monday, May 1st, 1865]. African Americans invented Memorial Day in Charleston, South Carolina. What you have there is Black Americans recently freed from slavery announcing to the world with their flowers, their feet, and their songs what the war had been about. What they basically were creating was the … Read more
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