Everyone fights an American war.

“Sarat smiled at the thought. "You couldn't just let us kill ourselves in peace, could you?" "Come now," said Yousef. "Everyone fights an American…

— Omar El Akkad

“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

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

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

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

— Dave Barry

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

— William Halsey

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

— James Bradley

“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

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

“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

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

“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

“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

“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

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