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The American Revolution and Declaration of Independence, it has often been argued, were fueled by the most radical of all American political ideas.

~Carl Bernstein

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There were people who said the Society of Cincinnati in the American revolution, of which George Washington was one of the shining lights, was a branch of the Illuminati.

~Carroll Quigley

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The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus the American Revolution, from which little was expected, produced much; but the French Revolution, from which much was expected, produced little.

~Charles Caleb Colton

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It's worth noting that at the time of the American Revolution, no sane person would have given two cents for its success.

~Diana Gabaldon

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The American Revolution was carried out in the name of the people, and it was supposedly 'We, the people,' who created the government that Americans still live under.

~Edmund Morgan

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What was the American Revolution? The people who joined to carry it out had different views of what they had done.

~Edmund Morgan

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Before the American Revolution there were frequent slave uprisings, and a lot of people would run away.

~Edward Ball

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