Sarah Palin Quotes

I can't rightly say where deciding to write about the American Revolution came from; I had bits and pieces of information about the war and about the country at that time that I'd collected over the years and, of course, I'm comfortable in the woods, so, finally, it just all feel into place.

Samuel Adams was truly the man of the Revolution.

There are plenty of Minutemen. People willing to be Minutemen. Where are the people that want to be George Washington? Where are the Benjamin Franklins? Where is Sam Adams? Where is John Adams?

Listen my children and you shall hear, Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere

The spirit of 1776 is not dead. It had only been slumbering. The body of the American people is substantially republican.

New Hampshire is one of the birthplaces of American freedom and independence - a place with a love and a passion for liberty.

John Quincy Adams most certainly was a part of the Revolutionary War era. He was a young boy, but he was actively involved.

Generations of devoted American history buffs have spent countless hours reading and writing long books about the American Revolution without ever having come across the name of Dr. Thomas Young. Yet it was Young who came up with the idea for the original tea party - the one in Boston Harbor.

Patrick Henry aligned himself against ratification. So did Richard Henry Lee.

In January 1776, Thomas Paine issued 'Common Sense,' advocating independence from Great Britain.

I would like to acquire a document autographed by John Witherspoon, who signed the Declaration of Independence and is one of my American heroes.

My next book is also set in the eighteenth century. It's about the Revolution, with the focus on the year 1776. It's about Washington and the army and the war. It's the nadir, the low point of the United States of America.

America started out as an invention society.

The Declaration of Independence is no part of the Constitution or of any other book.

If the American Revolution had produced nothing but the Declaration of Independence, it would have been worthwhile.

Not enough people really think about the founding of our country, how it all began and what its really about. They don't even teach it in schools any more.

Who would think it possible to redirect historical scholarship by explaining what Thomas Jefferson said in the Declaration of Independence?

I'm very interested in the early American history, the time when the country came together.

Those men who laid the foundation of this American government and signed he Declaration of Independence were the best spirits the God of heaven could find on the face of the earth. They were choice spirits . . . noble spirits before God.

The Founding Fathers were nothing more than a bunch of snobby English shits.

I enclose to you a copy of the declaration of independence as agreed to by the House, and also, as originally framed. You will judge whether it is the better or worse for the Critics.

Yes here's to the founding fathers - slave-owners, British citizens who didn't want to pay taxes.

More than two decades later, it is hard to imagine the Revolutionary War coming out any other way.

Since first hearing the story as a child, any mention of the 'Boston Tea Party' has elicited in me an excitement that is uniquely American. When I heard rumblings that there was a new Tea Party, I got goose bumps. I love tea, I love parties, I hate taxes; I'm in! It seemed that most of America joined in my excitement!

The Declaration of Independence is a sacred part of American history.