Donald Trump will be a tragedy, a sad joke in American…

I've had people tell me that I should just be sad and not joke around on Twitter, but they don't understand that joking and…

— Perfume Genius

Republicans fighting back against changes Obama made means those changes are important, as with most of the major progress in American history.

— Jonathan Chait

What's four years in our long American history? Remember when I asked that wheelchair-bound politician to "stand up." It turns me off when people…

— Joe Biden

Modern Democrats aren't the first political party to abuse power - far from it. Obama isn'€™t the first president to abuse executive power -…

— David Harsanyi

Throughout American history many of our social gains and much of our progress toward democracy were made possible by the active intervention of the…

— Harold Washington

“dark say: berthenia belle never forget the tongue hid name”

— Cathleen Margaret

“Thanks in part to the rapid mechanization of cotton production in the early 1940s, which ultimately threw millions of farm laborers out of work,…

— James T. Patterson

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself-and possibly teh bogey man.

— Pat Paulsen

We must not falsely teach American history in our schools. We have a law requiring state textbook oversight to guard against frauds like Zinn,…

— Mitch Daniels

The problem that we have is that most Americans don't even study American history, let alone Pinochet, Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin and all these guys.

— Van Jones

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…

— Edward Abbey

John Lane has long been recognized as one of the South's finest poets and memoirists. This debut establishes him as one of our finest…

— Ron Rash

“In December of 2007 human bones including skulls, which have been radiocarbon dated back to between 1304 and 1424, were found in a museum…

— Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One

Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes!

— William H. Prescott

Adam Clayton Powell's entire political career has to be looked at in the entire context of the American history and the history of, and…

— Malcolm X