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The shot heard round the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson / Essayist
April And Spring
Augusta National
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Be courteous to all, but intimate with few.
George Washington / 1St U.s. President
Best Friend
Friendship
Friends
Smile
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The rich are only defeated when running for their lives.
C. L. R. James / Journalist
Change
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Haiti
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All counter-revolutionary wars are unjust, all revolutionary wars are just.
Mao Zedong / Former Chairman Of The Communist Party Of China
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John Quincy Adams most certainly was a part of the Revolutionary War era. He was a young boy, but he was actively involved.
Michele Bachmann / United States Representative
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Boys
Eras
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Boy
Certainly
John
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Winning the Revolutionary War, or the Civil War, or World War II were the turning points in our history, the sine qua non of our forward progress.
Stephen Ambrose / Historian
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Civil War
Progress
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World War Ii
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Let us therefore rely on the goodness of the cause, and the aid of the supreme Being, in whose hands victory is, to animate and encourage us to great and noble actions.
George Washington / 1St U.s. President
Hands
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Before the Civil War, the Southern states were selling a lot of cotton to England and didn't seem to mind British occupation. By and large, the Revolutionary War wasn't at all great for business.
Henry Rollins / Musician
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Civil War
Cotton
Mind
Occupation
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Selling
Southern
Civil
Southern States
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We borrowed money to fight the Revolutionary War, and so there was a debt owed. We paid it. If we have done that for 235 years, if we have done it ever since this country has existed, we can do it again.
Danny K. Davis /
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Latinos have fought in all of America's wars, beginning with the Revolutionary War. Many Latinos are fighting and dying for our country today in Iraq, just as several of their ancestors fought for freedom in Mexico over a century ago.
Joe Baca / Former U.s. Representative
Century
Dying
Fighting
Mexico
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My first direct encounter with the military was when I joined ROTC as a graduate student, although my father, who served in the U.S. Marine Corps, can trace the military service in our family all the way back to the Revolutionary War.
Tammy Duckworth / U.s. Representative
Marine
Marine Corps
Military Service
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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.
John Linder / Former United States Representative
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Father
Fifty
Path
Proud
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Strong
Taken
Thirteen
Today
United
United States
Now
Then
Since
Colonies
Could
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Fought
Founding Fathers
Other
See
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America's veterans and troops serving abroad today fought hard to preserve our red, white and blue, from the Revolutionary War to today's Global War Against Terrorism, and Congress' action today is appropriate for one of our most sacred symbols.
Bill Shuster / U.s. Representative
Veterans Day
War
Appropriate
Blue
Congress
Red
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Serving
Symbols
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Troops
White
Abroad
Fought
Global War
Preserve
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The United States established itself as a trustworthy new nation in its first two decades after the Revolutionary War by paying its debts, even when many in the country believed it had no obligation to do so. Alexander Hamilton, the founder of this newspaper, insisted on it.
John Podhoretz / Writer
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Country
Hamilton
Obligation
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Trustworthy
Two
United States
Alexander
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Debts
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Insisted
Newspaper
Paying
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Many, many people of the Revolutionary generation, the generation that fought in the Revolutionary War, understood that slavery was somehow in contradiction to what America was saying it was. And many of those folks also, at the very least, gave land to African Americans when they were liberated.
Ta-Nehisi Coates / Writer
Contradiction
Folks
Liberated
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African Americans
Fought
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War has generally had grave and fateful consequences for the American monetary and financial system. We have seen that the Revolutionary War occasioned a mass of depreciated fiat paper, worthless Continentals, a huge public debt, and the beginnings of central banking in the Bank of North America.
Murray Rothbard / Economist
Banking
Debt
Financial
Financial System
Huge
Mass
Monetary
North America
Paper
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Worthless
Consequences
Bank
Beginnings
Central
Fiat
Generally
Grave
North
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I descend from both Philadelphia Quakers and Carolina colonists whose families were separated by the Revolutionary War. That helped give me insight into the agony of Patriots who, until the British government denied their claims, had always, like Ben Franklin himself, thought of themselves as free-born Englishmen.
Edward Rutherfurd / Writer
Agony
British Government
Carolina
Claims
Colonists
Denied
Englishmen
Franklin
Give Me
Insight
Philadelphia
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Ben
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