The American war of 1861-65 is recent enough to be embedded still in cultural memory. — Amanda Foreman Copy Share Image
When you review the Central American wars or other Latin American wars, you find that there were dictators and there were insurgents. — Alvaro Uribe Copy Share Image
The American war is over, but this is far from being the case with the American Revolution. — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
It is important for us to remember that black people have been patriotic and have fought for that American dream in every… — Adele Logan Alexander Copy Share Image
People didn't have the political guts to stand up against an American war. — George McGovern Copy Share Image
I have been a gigantic Rolling Stones fan since approximately the Spanish-American War. — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Clearly, the American war planners misjudged the determination of the Iraqi forces. — Peter Arnett Copy Share Image
When this war is over, the Japanese language will be spoken only in hell! — William Halsey Copy Share Image
American wars in Muslim countries created some extremists and inflamed many more while producing a security vacuum that allowed them to wreak… — George Packer Copy Share Image
The argument that John F. Kennedy was a closet peacenik, ready to give up on what the Vietnamese call the 'American War'… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
What is being talked about now is the probability of the Sharon government launching an attack against Lebanon to eliminate the resistance… — Hassan Nasrallah Copy Share Image
I did not want 'Battleship' to be perceived as an American war film. I wanted to do everything I could to make… — Peter Berg Copy Share Image
All of a sudden, making a Spanish-American War joke. I think you sort of had to go to probably to an American… — David Mandel Copy Share Image
In retrospect, the political and cultural climate in the early '60s seems both a time of innocence and also like a sultry,… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
When Congress passed the Authorization for the Use of Military Force immediately after the 9/11 attacks, no one could have imagined this… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
The first war plan has failed because of Iraqi resistance. Now they are trying to write another war plan. Clearly, the American… — Peter Arnett Copy Share Image
The casualties in the Civil War amount to more than all other wars - all other American wars combined. More people died… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
Many foolish people believe that nuclear war cannot happen, because there can be no winner. However, the American war planners, who elevated… — Paul Craig Roberts Copy Share Image
I would say the special experience of American wartime policy in the last 40 years, from Vietnam on, is that the war… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
“Roosevelt reasoned, “if the Vice-Presidency led to the Governor Generalship of the Philippines, then the question would be entirely altered.” That post… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
“Never in the history of American warfare has this nation witnessed such an exhibition of cowardice, indecisiveness, incompetence, and laziness in the… — Dennis Byrne Copy Share Image
“The monster in American history is not simply that which destroys. It is a being that must be destroyed. ...There can be… — W. Scott Poole Copy Share Image
“Southerner Tom Watson, a populist Jeffersonian from Georgia, faced potential prosecution under the law because his newspaper often opposed Wilson’s war aims… — Brion T. McClanahan Copy Share Image
Saving Italy is an astonishing account of a little known American effort to save Italy’s vast store of priceless monuments and art… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
“Machigonne” was the Abenaki Indian name for Portland. Christopher Levett, an English naval captain, landed the first settlement in Casco Bay on… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One Copy Share Image
“The war, like all wars, was proving more expensive for the Bourbons than planned. Since the alliance, France had advanced to the… — Barbara W. Tuchman Copy Share Image
“In the first summer of the Iraqi war, on the crabby, sweaty second day of a blackout that shut down the northeast’s… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
“Unlike European empires, ours was supposed to entail a concert of equal, sovereign democratic American republics, with shared interests and values, led… — Greg Grandin Copy Share Image
“Known as "Ike,” Eisenhower was born prior to the Spanish American War on October 14, 1890. Graduating from West Point Military Academy… — Captain Hank Bracker Copy Share Image
“Thus, in that inevitable taking of sides which comes from selection and emphasis in history, I prefer to try to tell the… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
A formative influence on my undergraduate self was the response of a respected elder statesmen of the Oxford Zoology Department when an… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Dad’s favorite subject was history, but he taught it with a decidedly west-of-the-Pecos point of view. As the proud son of an… — Jeannette Walls Copy Share Image
The United States has used force abroad more than 130 times, but has only declared war five times - the War of… — John Yoo Copy Share Image
“A filmmaker named Robert Goldstein was imprisoned for showing the British in a bad light in a movie about the American War… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“And there were no signs whatever of the disagreements among capitalists—or of the Anglo-American war—that Stalin’s ideological illusions had led him to… — John Lewis Gaddis Copy Share Image
