Daily Dabble in the Classics, Leonard E. Read
Contrary to what most of us have been taught in school, the American Revolution was not essentially an armed conflict with England. The American Revolution was a revolutionary idea, a revolt from the Old World form of the State as sovereign to the concept of God as Sovereign. This, I believe, is the only ideal revolution. The American experiment was the nearest approach to the ideal that humanity has as yet experienced.
Source: Leonard Read, Why Not Try Freedom?, p. 50. The Foundation for Economic Education, Inc., Irvington, New York, 1958.
