American Revolution

is not over. We have changed our forms of government, but it remains yet to effect a revolution in our principles, opinions, and manners so as to accommodate them to the forms of government we have adopted.

Most of the distresses of our country, and of the mistakes which Europeans have formed of us, have arisen from the mistaken belief that the American Revolution is over. This is so far from being the case that we have only finished the first act of the great drama. We have changed our forms of government, but it remains yet to effect a revolution in our principles, opinions, and manners so as to accommodate them to the forms of government we have adopted.BENJAMIN RUSH (1745-1813) To Richard Price, May 25, 1786

is an event of beginning, not a consummation.

The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation. - Woodrow Wilson

is the cause of all mankind. We are fighting for other nations' liberty in defending our own.

It is a common observation here [Paris] that our cause is the cause of all mankind, and that we are fighting for their liberty in defending our own. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Letter to Samuel Cooper, 1777

is an event that was a beginning, not a consummation.

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