American Revolutions

get the minus tracks and lead sheets here

Join pilgrims, revolutionaries, civil rights activists, suffragettes, abolitionists and veterans through the music that tells their story to make the United States of America a land of unparalleled freedom. Listen to the program by clicking the play button above or visiting the American Revolutions album site on bandcamp.com.

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If you’d like to get the additional bonus tracks, Man of La Mancha and The Impossible Dream, you can purchase the compact disc at CDBaby.

Favorite quotes:

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
~Declaration of Independance, in Congress, July 4, 1776

“Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by individuals who labor in freedom.”
~Albert Einstein

“Our reliance is in the love of liberty . . . Our defense is in the spirit which prizes liberty as the heritage of all men, in all lands everywhere.”
~Abraham Lincoln

“No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the Invisible Hand which conducts the affairs of men more than those of the United States.”
~George Washington

“America is another name for opportunity. Our whole history appears like a last effort of divine providence on behalf of the human race.”
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Democracy is a process, not a static condition. It is becoming rather than being. It can easily be lost, but never is fully won. Its essence is eternal struggle.”
~William H. Hastie

“Democracy cannot be static. Whatever is static is dead.”
~Eleanor Roosevelt

“There are those, I know, who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is the American dream.”
~Archibald MacLeish

“America is a willingness of the heart.”
~F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.”
~Martin Luther King Jr.

“Revolution is but thought carried into action.”
~Emma Goldman