Although most Americans believed in Manifest Destiny, few…

The United States is, after all, supposed to be a free country - and it has never made any sense to me that choices…

— Kat Timpf

“Politics are popularly supposed to govern the direction, and statesmen to be the guardian angels, of Civilization. It seems to me that they have…

— John Galsworthy

“... that with the defeat of the revolutionary workers, Europe finally fell back into its old double slavery, into Anglo-Russian slavery. The June struggle…

— Karl Marx

When the United States invaded Iraq, a New York Times/CBS News survey estimated that 42 percent of the American public believed that Saddam Hussein…

— Arundhati Roy

“These Americans believed that one great male god ruled the world. Sometimes they divided him into three parts, which they called father, son, and…

— James W. Loewen

“A 2007 Harris poll found that 71 percent of Americans believed that the continued burning of fossil fuels would alter the climate. By 2009…

— Naomi Klein

Sixty-nine percent of Americans believed that Saddam Hussein was personally responsible for 9/11 when we invaded Iraq. That is the biggest failure of the…

— Cenk Uygur

2007, according to a Harris poll, 71 percent of Americans believed that climate change was real, that it was human caused.

— Naomi Klein

We sacrificed as Americans for what we believed was right. Today it behooves us to make it right. We helped each other as we…

— Samm Tittle

“The time would come when every leader in the world would read the writings of the Chinese Communists—for it was barely possible that the…

— T. R. Fehrenbach

Americans have always believed that-within the law-all kinds of people should be allowed to take the initiative in all kinds of activities. And out…

— John W. Gardner

“Generally speaking, Americans cussed, smoke, and drank, and the Shamys had it on good authority that a fair number of them used drugs. Americans…

— Mohja Kahf

Americans once believed that their prosperity and way of life depended on having assured access to Persian Gulf oil. Today, that is no longer…

— Andrew Bacevich

And in "Elbow Room" the cast sings the glories of westward expansion in the United States, which involved the murder of native peoples and…

— Tim Wise

Providence and Manifest Destiny are synonyms often invoked to support arguments based on wishful thinking.

— Frank Herbert