American History Quotes
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American History Quotes & Sayings
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I believe that the truth of any subject only comes when all sides of the story are put together.
— Alice Walker
A President and his wise men can only propose; but Congress disposes. It is when President and Congress agree that American history marches forward.
— Theodore White
Tony Kaye is great with that kind of stuff. Up until American History X, he had only done commercials.
— Ethan Suplee
The Bible is a book of Science. Secular Humanism is a religion of mythology.
— Michael J. Findley
As professionals , the odds were in our favor, or so we believed.
— Floyd C. Forsberg
The circumstances of everyday life were too demanding-and in American's great cities, appalling.
— Charles E. Rosenberg
The struggle between centralization and decentralization is at the core of American history.
— Anthony Gregory
Ted Kennedy will go down in history as one of the giants of the U.S. Senate and one the most accomplished legislators in American history.
— Bernie Sanders
American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.
— Harold Rosenberg
I am the first African-American chairman of any major conservation organization in history. That's a big step.
— Jerome Ringo
The whole westward expansion myth is seen as romantic. But it's a joke, a blot on American history.
— Frank Waters
New Jersey for me is so alive with history. It's old, dynamic, African-American, Latino.
— Junot Diaz
Stolen bodies working stolen land. It was an engine that did not stop, its hungry boiler fed with blood.
— Colson Whitehead
Venice has been the living future of contemporary American history since its inception.
— Liam Neeson
A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.
— Grover Cleveland
The conversation seemed just as boring and forgettable as details of American history around 1805, for example.
— Patricia Highsmith
Evolution on the large scale unfolds, like much of human history, as a succession of dynasties.
— Edmund Beecher Wilson
When I was in school, all our history books were American, so we learned American history, not Canadian history.
— Dave Foley
The Day of Trouble is Near
— P.J. Parker
I hate American History after 1850.
— Emma Iadanza
Brigham Young lived to become immortal in history as an American Moses by leading his people through the wilderness into an unpromised land.
— George Bernard Shaw
American history contains much matter for pride and congratulation, and much matter for regret and humiliation.
— Herbert Croly
So many people of color who made major contributions to American history have been trapped in the purgatory of history.
— Henry Louis Gates
Hurricane Katrina is without question the worst natural disaster in American history,.
— Douglas Brinkley
The frontier has gone, and with its going has closed the first period of American history.
— Frederick Jackson Turner
For African-American people, I am in the business of inventing a reality that gives a different perspective - on history, on crime, on art, on love.
— John Edgar Wideman
Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can.
— Arthur Ashe
Barack Obama is the most antibusiness president in a generation, perhaps in American history.
— Dinesh D'Souza
I can't understand why I flunked American history. When I was a kid there was so little of it.
— George Burns
I grew up in the South, so a huge part of our American History education revolved around the Civil War.
— Anson Mount
He sailed through American history like a steel ship loaded with monoliths of granite.
— H.L. Mencken
Emerson was the chief figure in the American transcendental movement, a fact that complicates all accounts of him in literary or cultural history.
— Howard Mumford Jones
American history is parking lots.
— William Least Heat-Moon
American history is not something dead and over. It is always alive,always growing, always unfinished.
— John F. Kennedy
Latin life is rich with warmth, family values and history. I want to bring that beauty into American homes.
— Cristina Saralegui
To be an American is not ... a matter of blood; it is a matter of an ideaand history is the image of that idea. — Robert Penn Warren
Only one president in this book was a supervillain. Ladies and gentlemen, meet Chester A. Arthur, the Lex Luthor of the American Presidency.
— Daniel O'Brien
However, here's a warning you may want to heed about the American dream-read the fine print!
— J.C. Phillips
Black history is American history.
— Morgan Freeman
I love thinking about American history, thinking about LA history. I love brooding on crime.
— James Ellroy
History is the archaeology of the present and future.
— Patrick Mendis
In American religious history, theological qualms tend to get pushed aside when politics intervenes.
— Rick Perlstein
The slaves who were ourselves had known terror intimately, confused sunrise with pain, & accepted indifference as kindness.
— Ntozake Shange
Remove yourself, sir!
— David McCullough
We are studying American history for the ninth time in nine years.
— Laurie Halse Anderson
Well, I'm a history buff, anyway. I love learning about different periods, especially in American history. I'm a fan.
— William Sadler
The history of American patriotism is figuring out ways that we can work together to move forward and knit together the common government.
— Taylor Branch
I understood ... that in my own life I represented a whole period of American history.
— Laura Ingalls Wilder
Defining myself, as opposed to being defined by others, is one of the most difficult challenges I face.
— Carol Moseley Braun
If Martin Luther King were here he'd be very surprised at some of the sugar-coated versions of American history presented today.
— Kwasi Kwarteng
I also knew that I was on my way to becoming the worst athlete in the history of American boyhood.
— Frank Rich
He found his irritation that the American memory could be short.
— James Carl Nelson
The history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who took so pure a position that they had no clout at all.
— Ben Bradlee
Once people said: Give me liberty or give me death. Now they say: Make me a slave, just pay me enough.
— Todd Garlington
Gore Vidal has been a friend of mine for years, and he's one of the greatest writers in American history.
— Cybill Shepherd
There was a time in American history when almost every white person knew who Aretha Franklin was.
— Peabo Bryson
Rachael Ray is probably the most watched kitchen personality in the history of American television.
— Bill Buford
I don't think there's been a time in American history with more innocent people in prison.
— Bryan Stevenson
I have a long history in fighting for civil rights. I understand that many people in the African-American community may not understand that.
— Bernie Sanders
History has demonstrated time and again the inherent resilience and recuperative powers of the American economy.
— Ben Bernanke
< ... > tyranny is a central theme of American history, that racial exploitation and racial conflict have been part of the DNA of American culture.
— David Brion Davis
I'm covering the worst president in American history.
— Helen Thomas
The wort terrorist attack in American history also brought out the best in our country ... We are United as Americans.
— Barack Obama
In fact, no immigrant in American history has ever made a larger contribution than Alexander Hamilton
— Ron Chernow
The social and economic impact of innovative American researchers, companies, and workers over the course of U.S. history have been enormous.
— Robert Hormats
The history of American spaceflight is a history of doing less than had been planned, less than had been hoped for.
— Margaret Lazarus Dean
The American flag is the symbol of our freedom, national pride and history.
— Mike Fitzpatrick
By looking into more details of American history, we can make more sense of what's happening today.
— Christoph Waltz
