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American Revolution Quotes
A beginning, not an ending.
American Revolution quotes here treat it as more than a single event — one calls it "a beginning, not a consummation," another describes its rapid change in manners and ideas, a third credits it with binding government to Christian principle.
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- Grow
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Divine right went out with the American Revolution and doesn't belong to the White House aides. What meat do they eat that makes them grow so great?
- Battle
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The American Revolution was, in fact, a battle against the philosophy of Locke and the English utilitarians.
- Free Society
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The American Revolution was sparked by a series of taxes and tariffs on tea. More recently, the Thatcher and Reagan 'revolutions' were rooted in overturning the status quo - excessive taxation - to empower the individual and encourage a free society and prosperous economy.
- Ideas
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The progress of the American Revolution has been so rapid and such the alteration of manners, the blending of characters, and the new train of ideas that almost universally prevail, that the principles which animated to the noblest exertions have been nearly annihilated.
- Power
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The American revolution not only cost Britain the 13 colonies but also forced it to rethink the slave trade and slavery, and influenced its power relations in Asia and the Pacific.
- Civil Government
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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.
- Big Part
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Obviously, a big part of the American Revolution was there would be no Church of England the way there was in England. There was a specific attempt not to have an established church.
- Heirs
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I certainly don't think that the heirs of the American Revolution were a particularly noble class.
- Power
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The removal of the British after the American Revolution opened the floodgates of paramilitary ranger power. For instance, in 1786, ranger units, including one that included Daniel Boone, attacked a number of friendly Shawnee towns along the Mad River.
- Imagination
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