Revolutionary War Quotes

Give me liberty or give me death. – Patrick Henry

These are the times that try men’s souls. – Thomas Paine

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. – Martin Luther King Jr.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal. – Thomas Jefferson

I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death. – Patrick Henry

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. – Thomas Paine

We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately. – Benjamin Franklin

I regret that I have but one life to give for my country. – Nathan Hale

No taxation without representation! – James Otis

We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free. – George Washington

Those who won our independence believed liberty to be the secret of happiness. – Louis D. Brandeis

I have not yet begun to fight! – John Paul Jones

A house divided against itself cannot stand. – Abraham Lincoln

I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country. – Nathan Hale

United we stand, divided we fall. – John Dickinson

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. – Thomas Jefferson

The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. – Patrick Henry

Revolutionary War Quotes part 2

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination, and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand. – Harry S. Truman

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. – Nelson Mandela

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

The American dream is not that every man must be level with every other man. The American dream is that every man must be free to become whatever God intends he should become. – Ronald Reagan

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth. – George Washington

It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men. – Samuel Adams

The Revolution was in the minds of the people, and this was effected from 1760–1775, in the course of fifteen years before a drop of blood was shed at Lexington. – John Adams

The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind. – Thomas Paine

America is a tune. It must be sung together. – Gerald Stanley Lee

The true test of the American ideal is whether we’re able to recognize our failings and then rise together to meet the challenges of our time. – Barack Obama

I am resolved to exert every power I possess under the Constitution in behalf of the Union. – Abraham Lincoln

It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about? – Henry David Thoreau

The harder the conflict, the greater the triumph. – George Washington

We are not an island, but a quilt in a shared experience. – Jesse Jackson

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men should do nothing. – Edmund Burke

A people free to choose will always choose peace. – Ronald Reagan

There is nothing so powerful as truth – and often nothing so strange. – Daniel Webster

It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brushfires in people’s minds. – Samuel Adams

Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don’t have the strength. – Theodore Roosevelt

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. – Thomas Jefferson

A nation that forgets its past can function no better than an individual with amnesia. – David McCullough

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. – Frederick Douglass

The future doesn’t belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave. – Ronald Reagan

The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened. – John F. Kennedy

We, the people, are the rightful masters of both the Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution. – Abraham Lincoln

Be the change you wish to see in the world. – Mahatma Gandhi

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination, and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand. – Harry S. Truman

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth. – George Washington