“Although the [American] revolution grew out of economic and political causes, it represents primarily one of those costly and unfortunate internecine wars in which the Nordics have been prone to indulge at intervals for two or three thousand years, and which have done so much to weaken them as a race.”

The Conquest of a Continent (1933)

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "Although the [American] revolution grew out of economic and political causes, it represents primarily one of those cost…" by Madison Grant?
Madison Grant photo
Madison Grant 25
American lawyer, eugenicist, and conservationist 1865–1937

Related quotes

Maxwell D. Taylor photo
Yusuf Qaradawi photo

“The Iraqis have a country that inherited cultures thousands of years old while the Americans have a culture only two hundred years old. Two hundred years will teach thousands of years!? Oh Americans, leave Iraq for its people.”

Yusuf Qaradawi (1926) Egyptian imam

Sheikh Al-Qaradhawi Reacts to the Murder of Four Americans in Al-Fallujah: 'How could you punish an entire people because four corpses were mutilated?' http://www.memritv.org/clip_transcript/en/31.htm April 2004.

Mahmud of Ghazni photo
Leon C. Marshall photo
Chester W. Wright photo
Buckminster Fuller photo

“War is obsolete. It could never have been done before. Only ten years ago… technology reached the point where it could be done. Since then the invisible technological-capability revolution has made it ever easier so to do.”

Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983) American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor and futurist

From 1980s onwards, Critical Path (1981)

Richard Wright photo
Buckminster Fuller photo
Thomas Jefferson photo
Lloyd deMause photo

Related topics