American History Quotes

American History Quote of the day

I don't think there's been a time in American history with more innocent people in prison.

No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.

There have been times throughout American history where what is right is not the same as what is legal. Sometimes to do the right thing you have to break the law.

The whole westward expansion myth is seen as romantic. But its a joke, a blot on American history.

In my estimation, there has not been in American history a more important leak than Edward Snowden's release of NSA material – and that definitely includes the Pentagon Papers 40 years ago.

Once I thought to write a history of the immigrants in America. Then I discovered that the immigrants were American history.

There can be no argument about the Lone Star State's significant contributions to American history, and we must remember the actions and the sacrifices of those who made Texas independence a reality.

The frontier has gone, and with its going has closed the first period of American history.

The slaves who were ourselves had known terror intimately, confused sunrise with pain, & accepted indifference as kindness.

I can't understand why I flunked American history. When I was a kid there was so little of it.

The great and abiding lesson of American history, particularly the Cold War, is that the engine of capitalism - the individual - is mightier than any collective.

My challenge was to weave into the fabric of American history enough of the presence of blacks so that the story of the United States could be told adequately and fairly.

Radical thought has inspired many of the great political and social reform movements in American history, from ending slavery to establishing the minimum wage.

This is the worst President ever. He [George W. Bush] is the worst President in all of American history.

In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins.

Here was the greatest and most moving chapter in American history, a blending of meanness and greatness, an ending and a beginning. It came out of what men were, but it did not go as men had planned.

Lincoln once said that America was founded on a proposition that was written by Jefferson in 1776. We are really founded on an argument about what that proposition means.

American history is not something dead and over. It is always alive,always growing, always unfinished.

I love thinking about American history, thinking about LA history. I love brooding on crime.

Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are the most disliked and untrusted candidates for president in American history.

The struggle between centralization and decentralization is at the core of American history.

May 4th is a particularly memorable day in American history because 84 years to the day before May 4, 1970, there was another demonstration at the Haymarket Square in Chicago.

I'm working on restoring a cabinet over the obstruction of Senate Democrats. It will be one of the great cabinets ever assembled in American history.

American history is a quagmire, and the more one knows, the quaggier the mire gets.

I understood....that in my own life I represented a whole period of American history.

English history is all about men liking their fathers, and American history is all about men hating their fathers and trying to burn down everything they ever did.

Common decency demands that [NCAA athletes] should be paid, but the only way it will happen is the same way workers got paid throughout American history, through a strong union.

Jerry Garcia was a great American master and the Grateful Dead are not just a genuine piece of musical history, but also an important part of American history.

On 9/11, 2001, the Navy stood at 316 ships. By 2008, after one of the great military buildups in American history, we were at 278 ships and had 49,000 fewer sailors.

A Time Comes When Silence is Betrayal.

Bill and Hillary Clinton are the most investigated couple in American history - now the most thoroughly exonerated couple in American history.

President Obama is the most successful food stamp president in American history. I would like to be the most successful paycheck president in American history.

The important thing to understand about American history, wrote Mr. Ibis, in his leather-bound journal, is that it is fictional, a charcoal-sketched simplicity for the children, or the easily bored.

I feel sometimes an American artist must feel, like a baseball player or something - a member of a team writing American history.

I mean you look back at American history and American culture, it's pretty striking. I mean this has been the safest country in the world forever, and the most frightened country in the world.

No man-made structure in all of American history has been hated so much, by so many, for so long, with such good reason, as that Glen Canyon Dam at Page, Arizona, Shithead Capital of Coconino County.

The conversation seemed just as boring and forgettable as details of American history around 1805, for example.

I grew up in the South, so a huge part of our American History education revolved around the Civil War.

At various periods in American history, people get pretty rambunctious when it comes to our democratic debate.

I'll change the posture of our federal government from being one of the most anti-science administrations in American history to one that embraces science and technology.

And the other issue is Gore, $4.6 trillion - the single largest expansion of government in American history, from universal preschool, now, to prescriptions to health care - it is Socialism 101.

Through American history, we have had populist movements that often, often, often have this ugly racial element. But, often, there are warning signs of some deeper social and economic problem.

I hated the lost colony; in second grade, we were doing American History, and they said, We don't know what happened to them. That drove me nuts. That lost colony drove me crazy.

It was an injured worker finding a lawyer on a contingent fee in a little town in Texas that blew the top off one of the greatest industrial disasters in American history.

First of all, there's no mention of political parties in the Constitution, so you begin American history with not only no political conventions but also no parties.

President Barack Obama has stood watch over the greatest job loss in modern American history. And that, my friends, is one inconvenient truth that will haunt this President throughout history.

American history contains much matter for pride and congratulation, and much matter for regret and humiliation.

For a long time in American history, people didn't even come up before the Senate. They didn't come before the Judiciary Committee, and up until about 1923, something like that.

The countless number of influential figures in American history who are of Caribbean heritage indicates the need to set aside a designated time to celebrate their contribution to our country.

Barack Obama is one of the greatest politicians in American history.