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  • Revolutionary war is an antitoxin which not only eliminates the enemy's poison but also purges us of our own filth.

    Military   War   Enemy  
    Zedong Mao, Stuart Schram (2015). “Mao's Road to Power: Revolutionary Writings, 1912-49: V. 6: New Stage (August 1937-1938): Revolutionary Writings, 1912-49”, p.336, Routledge
  • I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.

    John Adams (2003). “The Letters of John and Abigail Adams”, p.264, Penguin
  • Writing for a newspaper is like running a revolutionary war. You go to battle not when you are ready, but when action offers itself.

    Running   War   Writing  
  • It [eBook] is like introducing the machine gun to a revolutionary war. It changes everything. If you can reach your fans directly without having to go through a middle man, the entire economics of the publishing business changes.

    War   Gun   Men  
  • If the Founding Fathers and other patriots who fought during the Revolutionary War could see the United States today, I believe they would be proud of the path that the thirteen colonies, now fifty strong states, have taken since then.

    Strong   War   Father  
  • Revolutionary war is an antitoxin that not only eliminates the enemy's poison but also purges us of our own filth. Every just, revolutionary war is endowed with tremendous power and can transform many things or clear the way for their transformation. The Sino-Japanese war will transform both China and Japan; provided China perseveres in the War of Resistance and in the united front, the old Japan will surely be transformed into a new Japan and the old China into a new China, and people and everything else in both China and Japan will be transformed during and after the war.

    Peace   War   Japan  
  • They fought their first action in March of 1775. Embarked on eight small ships, they sailed to the Bahamas and captured a British fort near Nassau, seizing gunpowder and supplies. Later, during the Revolutionary War, Marines fought several engagements in their distinctive green coats, such as helping George Washington to cross the Delaware River, and assisting John Paul Jones on the Bonhomme Richard to capture the British frigate Serapis during their famous sea fight.

    War   Marine   Fighting  
    "Marine". Book by Tom Clancy, 1996.
  • The revolutionary war is a war of the masses; it can be waged only by mobilizing the masses and relying on them.

    War   Revolution   Mass  
    Mao Tse-Tung, Zedong Mao (1977). “Selected Works of Mao Tse-Tung”, Pergamon
  • As soon as I moved to Princeton in 1978, I became fascinated by local history, much of it Revolutionary War-era; and I became fascinated by the presidency of Woodrow Wilson at Princeton University.

  • Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

    Address on first anniversary of Alliance for Progress, 13 Mar. 1962
  • We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.

    Peace   War   Negative  
  • See, bad things happen to me on field trips. Like at my fifth-grade school, when we went to the Saratoga battlefield, I had this accident with a Revolutionary War cannon. I wasn't aiming for the school bus, but of course I got expelled anyway. - Percy Jackson

    War   School   Fields  
    Rick Riordan (2006). “The lightning thief”
  • From the time of the Revolutionary War, when citizens stood forward to defend their liberties against the depredations of tyranny. All the way through Civil War, through the great World Wars, this nation has been defended by the tradition of common ordinary folks who come from behind the plow, come from the store-clerking, come from the classrooms, and so forth to get on the battlefields - ordinary citizens turned into heroes in defense of their liberty, because that's the potential of freedom.

    War   Hero   Liberty  
    Alan Keyes' Speech during Rally in Idaho Falls, Idaho, www.keyesarchives.com. May 12, 2000.
  • I had a question. "Why does the name Pearl Harbor sound so familiar?" The lieutenant colonel's eyes narrowed. "Pearl Harbor is the most famous U.S. military base in the world," he said crisply. "It's the only place on U.S. soil that has been attacked in a wars, since the Revolutionary War." None of this was ringing a bell, but you already know I'm totally uneducated. Gazzy leaned over to whisper, "It was a movie with Ben Affleck." Ah. Now I remembered.

    Military   War   Eye  
    James Patterson (2009). “Maximum Ride: Max”, p.137, Random House
  • In all their wars against the French they [the Americans] never showed such conduct, attention and perseverance as they do now.

  • One night I walked out of the church when the priest said that we should never have fought the Revolutionary war and every war was bad. It was 4th of July. It was an outrageously political statement. I just never felt right when people in the church would take these overtly political positions especially when I felt like I was a good Christian, I was serving my country, and I just didn't feel like I deserved to be lambasted by the priest on the 4th of July.

    Christian   Country   War  
    "'I'm Spiritual. I'm Religious. I'm a Good Christian.'". Interview with Steven Waldman, www.beliefnet.com. December 2003.
  • With regard to military discipline, I may safely say that no such thing existed in the Continental Army.

  • Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

    1822; cited in U.S. Senate, Alleged Assassination Plots (1975).
  • The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.

    Freedom   War   Mean  
  • Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

    George Washington (1852). “The Life of General Washington: First President of the United States”, p.94
  • Be courteous to all, but intimate with few.

    George Washington (1852). “The life of General Washington: first president of the United States”, p.94
  • If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

    "The Last Enemy" by Rebecca Sato, www.pbs.org. November 11, 2010.
  • More than two decades later, it is hard to imagine the Revolutionary War coming out any other way.

    War   Two   Way  
    George W. Bush (1982). “Public paper of the presidents of the United States”, p.913, Government Printing Office
  • The intelligence community is so vast that more people have top secret clearance than live in Washington. The U.S. will spend more on the war in Afghanistan this year, adjusting for inflation, than we spent on the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, the Mexican-American War, the Civil War and the Spanish-American War combined.

    War   Years   People  
  • Reading is learning, but applying is also learning and the more important kind of learning at that. Our chief method is to learn warfare through warfare. A person who has had no opportunity to go to school can also learn warfare — he can learn through fighting in a war.

    War   Reading   School  
    "Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works".
  • We fight, get beat, rise, and fight again.

    Art   Military   War  
    Nathanael Greene, Richard K. Showman (2005). “The Papers of General Nathanael Greene”, University of North Carolina Press
  • [It was] the poverty caused by the bad influence of the English bankers on the Parliament which has caused in the colonies hatred of the English and . . . the Revolutionary War.

    War   Hatred   Political  
  • Our flag means all that our fathers meant in the Revolutionary War. It means all that the Declaration of Independence meant. It means justice. It means liberty. It means happiness.... Every color means liberty. Every thread means liberty. Every star and stripe means liberty.

    Stars   Father   War  
  • Without armed struggle neither the proletariat, nor the people, nor the Communist Party would have any standing at all in China and it would be impossible for the revolution to triumph. In these years [the eighteen years since the founding of the Party] the development, consolidation and bolshevization of our Party have proceeded in the midst of revolutionary wars; without armed struggle the Communist Party would assuredly not be what it is today. Comrades throughout the Party must never forget this experience for which we have paid in blood.

    Peace   War   Party  
    Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.38, Lulu.com
  • I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.

    Before being executed as a spy by the British, 22 September 1776, in Henry Phelps Johnston 'Nathan Hale, 1776' (1914) ch. 7.
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