Thomas Jefferson.

No matter what one does, it is in human nature to desire more than one has. Without this instinct of greed, life would be unable to function. It is because of this instinct that the revolutionary war was started. England wanted to milk its colonies of everything they were worth and the colonies wanted to be able to have all of what they produced. Therefore, even if England had allowed home rule in the colonies, …

…still proved true in the British colonies. No matter what odds were stacked against them, how unrealistic the possibility of becoming a separate nation was, something about this period of time made a revolution inevitable. Overseas in England the parliament could have done nothing short of giving the colonists complete freedom to avoid a rebellion. The willpower of the human mind and the never-ending search for something better dominates wealth and power on every level.