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“It's a great life if you don't weaken”
― John Buchanan

“Revolutionaries - true revolutionaries - are aggressive, ruthless, and generally seize the main chance, as William Henry Drayton did when he saw that stump-speaking was getting him nowhere. But defenders of the status quo tend toward caution and legalisms and inaction until it is too late”
― John Buchanan, The Road to Guilford Courthouse: The American Revolution in the Carolinas

“It was only then that Major John James realized that he was quite alone—whereupon he pulled the oldest trick in the book. Spurring Thunder on, he shouted, “Come on, boys! Come on! Here they are! Here they are!”28 The now thoroughly demoralized Tories leaped onto their horses and fled again, their leader joining them.”
― John Buchanan, The Road to Guilford Courthouse: The American Revolution in the Carolinas

“It is with great concern that Lord Cornwallis hears every day reports of Soldiers being taken by the Enemy, in consequence of their Straggling out of Camp in search of whiskey.”
― John Buchanan, The Road to Guilford Courthouse: The American Revolution in the Carolinas

“The Greenes were incensed and Rhode Islanders took up the family’s cause as theirs, for what happened to one merchant could happen to others, who were, after all, only engaged in their God-given right to smuggle rum, sugar, and molasses rather than pay duties that everyone knew Parliament had no right to levy.”
― John Buchanan, The Road to Guilford Courthouse: The American Revolution in the Carolinas

“a “free People think they have a right to an Explanation of the Circumstances which give rise to the Necessity under which they suffer.”
― John Buchanan, The Road to Charleston: Nathanael Greene and the American Revolution