This was the fall of 2004. The wider world was deeply…

But what do we mean by the American Revolution? Do we mean the American war? The Revolution was effected before the war commenced. The…

— John Adams

“It's almost hard to imagine anything more undemocratic than the view that political officials should not debate American wars in public, but only express…

— Glenn Greenwald

“She liked a very particular kind of plot: the sort where the pirate kidnaps some virgin damsel, rapes her into loving him, and then…

— Nicole Peeler

“She retired early and, consequently, was in ignorance of the receipt of a telegram by Sylvanus Starr announcing the return of Andy P. Symes…

— Caroline Lockhart

WASHINGTON - Ever since President Obama ordered American warplanes to begin bombing terrorist targets in Iraq and Syria last year, members of Congress have…

— Peter Baker

“Southerner Tom Watson, a populist Jeffersonian from Georgia, faced potential prosecution under the law because his newspaper often opposed Wilson’s war aims and policies.…

— Brion T. McClanahan

In retrospect, the political and cultural climate in the early '60s seems both a time of innocence and also like a sultry, still summer…

— Tom Brokaw

“It is always a fashion to advise disputants to sit round a table and solve disputes by dialogue and discussion, and not to resort…

— V. Navaratnam

“This giant fleet of American warships – a modern armada – churns across the ocean day and night for a journey of four thousand…

— James Bradley

When this war is over, the Japanese language will be spoken only in hell!

— William Halsey

I have been a gigantic Rolling Stones fan since approximately the Spanish-American War.

— Dave Barry

U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt has been described as founder of the Bull Moose Party, the man who led his troops up San Juan Hill…

— Zig Ziglar

All of a sudden, making a Spanish-American War joke. I think you sort of had to go to probably to an American high school…

— David Mandel

“Thus, in that inevitable taking of sides which comes from selection and emphasis in history, I prefer to try to tell the story of…

— Howard Zinn

As always, there was an all-American war hero look to him, coded in his tousled brown hair, his summer-narrowed hazel eyes, the straight nose…

— Maggie Stiefvater