# Quote — Mark Kurlansky, Cod

> The American Revolution was the first great anticolonialist movement. It was about political freedom. But in the minds of its most hard-line revolutionaries, the New England radicals, the central expression of that freedom was the ability to make their own decisions about their own economy.

- Author: [Mark Kurlansky](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mark-kurlansky.md)
- Book: [Cod](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mark-kurlansky/cod.md)
- Page: 93
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mark_Kurlansky#Cod:_A_Biography_of_the_Fish_That_Changed_the_World_(1997)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/mark-kurlansky/cod/the-american-revolution

## More from this book

> All revolutions are to some degree about money.

p. 93 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mark-kurlansky/cod/all-revolutions-are.md)

> In trade, it is an almost infallible natural law that a hungry low-end market, an eager dumping ground for the shoddiest work, is an irresistible market force.

p. 81 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mark-kurlansky/cod/in-trade-it.md)

> It is harder to kill off fish than mammals. But after 1,000 years of hunting the Atlantic cod, we know that it can be done.

p. 233 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mark-kurlansky/cod/it-is-harder.md)