American History Quotes
We are going to have the candidate of food stamps, the finest food-stamp president in the American history, in Barack Obama, and we are going to have a candidate of paychecks.
Throughout American history our presidents have invoked our nation's founding fathers. This is particularly true of recent presidents.
There was a time in American history when almost every white person knew who Aretha Franklin was.
The largest tax reduction in American history, one page tax form, reducing government spending. Those are all the keys to economic progress.
What I'm interested in is modern American history. I'm taken with the changes that have occurred in America in my lifetime.
The takeover of Harvard in 1805 by the Unitarians is probably the most important intellectual event in American history - at least from the standpoint of education
You know what? I didn't mess up about Paul Revere... In a shout-out, gotcha type of question that was asked of me, I answered candidly. And I know my American history.
I was right about one of the most significant issues in modern American history. I was the only one who was right about one of the most significant issues in modern American history.
I think one of the most pivotal moments in modern American history was Donald Trump's immediate withdraw from TPP.
A President and his wise men can only propose; but Congress disposes. It is when President and Congress agree that American history marches forward.
I have scary eyes. I look like the guy in 'American History X,' yes. I remember coming home from school and asking my mum if I could get an eye transplant, and of course she declined.
The problem that we have is that most Americans don't even study American history, let alone Pinochet, Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin and all these guys.
I believe that the truth of any subject only comes when all sides of the story are put together.
The streets of America may not have been paved with gold, but they were cobbled in middle-class dreams.
To celebrate freedom and democracy while forgetting American's origins in a slavery economy is patriotism à la carte.
Stolen bodies working stolen land. It was an engine that did not stop, its hungry boiler fed with blood.
Once people said: Give me liberty or give me death. Now they say: Make me a slave, just pay me enough.
The heirs of Jefferson and Madison would be the Democratic-Republicans, the heirs of Hamilton and Adams would be the Federalists. But the heirs of Washington would be all Americans.
Acknowledging that all our land was stolen from Native people feels like too great a burden, so we create an alternative reality that allows us to disengage emotionally from the truth.
Still, compared to him, compared to the people we descend from, I am free of history. I'm so free of history I have to get in a car and drive seven states to find it.
Far from being marginalized, as is presently the case, nineteenth-century freethought was a social movement at the core of our national life.
How a member of the church—one who had read the Good Lord’s bible—could sit so calmly and watch a man be led to his destruction frightened me.
Of all America’s natural resources, its richest is an inexhaustible vein of irony.
In the 1940s dams were synonymous with progress, and the rivers were to be conquered with the fervour of a pioneer wielding an axe.
In Jazz, like in America, the group works together toward a common cause with lots of room left for each individual to shine.
My great-great grandfather and I were the best of friends, although we never met
The early morning sunshine shot up the ice-covered valley. It glinted off the backs of slumbering mastodon, reflected between the antlers of caribou.
For whom do you cry, my son?” the Great Spirit asked.“I do not know.”“Yes, you do.
This is a time of change, ” the Shaman said. “This is a time of enormous power.
Do you understand the meaning of the soil beneath your feet?
The other Clans will soon arrive. The greatest times of our family are before us. And so are the darkest.
We the People . . . The People of the Long House.
We must love our slaves, Papa. We must love them as hard as we are able.
West Point—The Key to the Continent and Independence.
I refuse to believe the people of Texas and all Americans in the world have forgotten us.
Do not fret, my brother, my child. For the buffalo will roam the plains once more.
We live in a complicated society, Bromley—one that is changing and which does indeed need to change. But do you not think any change must begin within our own family gathering?
There were no stars, only the darkness and an arctic chill that had intensified since the first thin, blood-red stripes of sunrise shimmered on the ocean’s horizon.
History is the archaeology of the present and future.
The popular mocking of reparations as a harebrained scheme authored by wild-eyed lefties and intellectually unserious black nationalists is fear masquerading as laughter.
