United States History Quotes

The United States may have retained more of the intellectual imprint of the British 18th century than Britain itself. — William Rees-Mogg

Until al Qaeda attacked the United States on September 11, 2001, Hizballah had killed more Americans than had any terrorist group in history. — Robert M. Gates

Before the war it was always the United States *are*, after the war it was the United States is ... it made us an is. — Shelby Foote

History of the United States in the Administrations of Thomas Jefferson, — Stephen E. Ambrose

The United States is the most dishonest, ungodly, unspiritual nation that ever existed in the history of the planet. — Dick Gregory

Russians can give you arms but only the United States can give you a solution. — Anwar Sadat

At one time he [Cornelius Vanderbilt] personally controlled some 10 percent of all the money in circulation in the United States. — Bill Bryson

Never in the history of the United States have we cut back on troops when we've been at war. — Michele Bachmann

If you look back through history in the United States, there have been very few landslide elections. Half the country always voted for someone else. — Kevin Spacey

The land flourished because it was fed from so many sources
because it was nourished by so many cultures and traditions and peoples. — Lyndon B. Johnson

The history of the United States is the story of people of many backgrounds. — William Loren Katz

The United States in the 1980s may be the first society in history in which children are distinctly worse off than adults. — Daniel Patrick Moynihan

No Statue of Liberty ever greeted our arrival in this country ... we did not, in fact, come to the United States at all. The United States came to us. — Luis Valdez

Someone once described Ken Lewis to me as the most competitive person in the history of the United States, including the Union Army. — Charles Duhigg

I think the tradition of well-written history hasn't been squashed out of the academic world as much in Britain as it has in the United States. — Adam Hochschild

The United Staes had never in its history intervened to stop genocide and had in fact rarely even made a point of condemning it as it occurred, — Samantha Power

The United States was the first country in the history of the world to be consciously created out of an idea - and the idea was liberty. — Nathaniel Branden

The main difference between a lawyer and a prostitute is that a prostitute won't screw you after you're dead. — Mark R. Jones

The United Nations is the greatest fraud in history. Its purpose is to destroy the United States. — John E. Rankin

The New Deal began on March 25th, 1911. The day that the Triangle factory burned. — Frances Perkins

The creation of the United States of America is the central event of the past four hundred years. — Walter A. McDougall

Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce. — James A. Garfield President Of The United States

The Confederate Constitution was almost identical to that of the United States. — Bruce Catton

The major challenge for the United States is whether it can become the first outward-looking, continental, nonimperialist power in history. — Lawrence Summers

Charleston is not the center of the universe, but it should be. That is the persistent perception of many locals. — Mark R. Jones

Nothing moves me more than the history of the United States. — Henry Rollins

The history of other cultures is non-existent until it erupts in confrontation with the United States. — Edward Said

The lesson of history is rarely learned by the actors themselves. — James A. Garfield President Of The United States

In Charleston, temperance is a four letter word. — Mark R. Jones

Donald Trump called George W. Bush 'the worst president in the history of the United States.' Then he added, 'Until, of course, I'm elected.' — Conan O'Brien

The United States is the result of an enlightened philosophy; China is the outcome of traditions and history. — Patrick Mendis

The United States furnishes the first example in history of a government deliberately depriving itself of all legislative control of religion. — Philip Schaff

In the United States, there was no simpler, more agreeable time. — Sarah Vowell

Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

The people in Japan know more about the history of jazz and the musicians than the people in the United States do. — Billy Higgins

Throughout the nation's history, the national destiny of the United States has been understood in antimilitaristic, libertarian terms. — Hans Morgenthau

Mistakes from our collective past are like any other: they require intervention--a remedy--to correct. They don't erase themselves over time. — Jonathan R. Miller

Although most Americans believed in Manifest Destiny, few could agree on exactly which lands the United States was supposed to govern. — Charles W. Carey Jr.

Two hundred years after Euro-Americans "discovered" it, America's river west begins and ends at pollution. — Bill Lambrecht

We need a new, deeper appreciation of the ethnic histories of the American people, not a reduction of American history to ethnic histories. — Steven C. Rockefeller

'Lincoln' is a powerful film. It's one of those epic films that talk about this very specific issue in history of the United States. — Demian Bichir

No country in history ever sent mothers of toddlers off to fight enemy soldiers until the United States did this in the Iraq war. — Phyllis Schlafly

Great Britain provided time; the United States provided money and Soviet Russia provided blood. — Joseph Stalin

Conflict with the United States is one of the overwhelming facts of Latin American history. — Stephen Kinzer

The United States of America will sound as pompously in the world or in history as The Kingdom of Great Britain. — Thomas Paine