American Revolution Key Quotes

“We won’t be their negroes”

• John Adams

• H.P

• America will not be enslaved to the British

“The distinctions between the [colonies] is no more…I am not Virginan, but an American”

• Patrick Henry

• H.P

• The colonies joined forces to oppose the British

“We may as well assert that because a child has thrived on milk, that it is to never have meat”

• Thomas Paine

• H.P

• Just because America did well under Britain, doesn’t mean they can’t thrive by themselves.

We are determined to listen to nothing from the illegal congress.

• George III

• H.P

• Britain refused to listen to the congresses that were operating illegally.

In America the law is King.

• Thomas Paine

• H.P

• They listened to themselves more than the King.

Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country.

• Marquis De Lafayette

• H.P

• Natural rights were so important that they deserved their own country.

In the name of liberty Patriots suppressed free speech, broke into private mail and terrorized their critics...Patriots believed only in the liberty of their press.

• Alan Taylor

• H.I

• Patriots refused to listen to other opinions and actually opposed them.

They “defended freedom for white men while asserting their domination over enslaved blacks.”

• Alan Taylor

• H.I

• The revolution was focused on white men and nothing else.

“Britain didn’t so much lose America as abandon it”

• Lepore

• H.I

• Britain gave up on America

“England would have no slaves. And America would have no king.”

• Lepore

• H.I

• England was more for actual liberty than America.