On 9/11, 2001, the Navy stood at 316 ships. By 2008, after one of the great military buildups in American history, we… — Ray Mabus Copy Share Image
“But the truth is that what so often passes for American history is really a record of white priorities or conquests set… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
I grew up in a border state. I think immigration is an essential part of American history and American culture. — Meghan McCain Copy Share Image
The wort terrorist attack in American history also brought out the best in our country...We are United as Americans. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
In 'Pox: An American History,' Michael Willrich meticulously traces the story of how the smallpox vaccine was pressed into service during a… — Scott Gottlieb Copy Share Image
Anyone with a cursory knowledge of American history knows that unchecked spying undermines democracy and public trust. — Ari Melber Copy Share Image
These days I wonder more and more why people are pessimistic when American history actually supports optimism. — bell hooks Copy Share Image
Throughout American history, whites have played a significant role in helping blacks secure freedom and equality. — Jesse Lee Peterson Copy Share Image
In an instant, the law was transformed: from the last passenger on the safe-haven bandwagon to a pioneer into uncharted territory. For… — Wil S. Hylton Copy Share Image
“In Chicago and across the country, whites looking to achieve the American dream could rely on a legitimate credit system backed by… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
And being that my father is gone in immigrant and I have you know - that I owe my existence to immigration,… — Vic Mensa Copy Share Image
American history has always had elements of what we now think of as Trumpism - Joe McCarthy, George Wallace, Father Coughlin. It's… — Bill Kristol Copy Share Image
My ideal man is Benjamin Franklin-the figure in American history most worthy of emulation ... Franklin is my ideal of a whole… — Isidor Isaac Rabi Copy Share Image
The Gettysburg speech is at once the shortest and the most famous oration in American history. Put beside it, all the whoopings… — Henry Lewis Mencken Copy Share Image
“Joseph Smith, its enterprisingly mendacious inventor, went to the lengths of composing a complete new holy book, the Book of Mormon, inventing… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Given the central role he had played in the greatest political upset in American history, the reporter suggested that it had all… — Joshua Green Copy Share Image
“Notwithstanding the very prevalent impression, indeed we might say the practically universal persuasion, that there was nothing worth while talking about in… — James Joseph Walsh Copy Share Image
“It is of the nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of legislative authority," the Federalist tell us. And… — Gene Healy Copy Share Image
“This malignant persistence since September 11th is the biggest surprise of all. In previous decades, sneak attacks, stock-market crashes, and other great… — George Packer Copy Share Image
“The United States became engaged in hostilities with North Vietnam on November 1, 1955, when President Eisenhower deployed the Military Assistance Advisory… — Captain Hank Bracker, The Exciting Story of Cuba Copy Share Image
Hillary Clinton is a tough person. She's diplomatic, and I would've felt safe with her as the president. Now we have an… — Jason Bailey Copy Share Image
“Yet, if the American Negro has arrived at his identity by virtue of the absoluteness of his estrangement from his past, American… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“The point of a lot of advertising, as Mr. Wallace explained to us last year in American History & Politics, is to… — E.Lockhart Copy Share Image
There was no news in the Dan Rather piece. They didn't say [to Bush]: "We found a piece of paper that was… — Roger Ailes Copy Share Image
“We need a new, deeper appreciation of the ethnic histories of the American people, not a reduction of American history to ethnic… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The 2020 presidential election was arguably the most secure - and among the most scrutinized - in American history. — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
The problem that we have is that most Americans don't even study American history, let alone Pinochet, Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin and all… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Unlike any other leader in modern American history, we are led today by a president that has decided to pit Americans against… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
In both British and American history, fervent imperialism has always coexisted with bouts of fierce isolationism. — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
The walls that fence our fields, as well as modern Rome, and not less the Parthenon itself, are all built of ruins. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Every cigar rolled by hand carries the pressure of labor, the signature of culture, and the shadow of politics.” — Sebastian Saviano Copy Share Image
In my estimation, there has not been in American history a more important leak than Edward Snowden's release of NSA material, and… — Daniel Ellsberg Copy Share Image
Getting into the banjo and discovering that it was an African-American instrument, it totally turned on its head my idea of American… — Rhiannon Giddens Copy Share Image
There's not much place for the loyalists - especially the loyalists who left - in standard American history. — Rachel Martin Copy Share Image
“O, you happy free women, contrast your New Year's day with that of the poor bond-woman! With you it is a pleasant… — Harriet A. Jacobs Copy Share Image
I hated the lost colony; in second grade, we were doing American History, and they said, We don't know what happened to… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
The history of a movement, the history of a nation, the history of a race is the guide-post of that movement's destiny,… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
Look at the American history of slavery. Can you say that hundreds of years later that has been eased? That pain has… — Anohni Copy Share Image
During the Civil War, the fledgling Republican Party constructed the nation's first activist government, using taxes to fund social welfare legislation for… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
When I was in school, all our history books were American, so we learned American history, not Canadian history. — Dave Foley Copy Share Image
![“There was no news in the Dan Rather piece. They didn't say [to Bush]: "We found a piece of paper that was overlooked in the 300,000 pieces of paper that were covered in the Iran-Contra hearings, and we have a piece of news we'd like to ask you about." CBS decided to create a media event and cover…” quote by Roger Ailes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/110/roger-ailes-2123_american-history_there-was-no-news-in-the-dan-rather-piec_879861.jpg)
