The American war of 1861-65 is recent enough to be embedded still in cultural memory. — Amanda Foreman Copy Share Image
The American war is over, but this is far from being the case with the American Revolution. — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
I have been a gigantic Rolling Stones fan since approximately the Spanish-American War. — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
People didn't have the political guts to stand up against an American war. — George McGovern Copy Share Image
It is important for us to remember that black people have been patriotic and have fought for that American dream in every… — Adele Logan Alexander Copy Share Image
When this war is over, the Japanese language will be spoken only in hell! — William Halsey Copy Share Image
“And there were no signs whatever of the disagreements among capitalists—or of the Anglo-American war—that Stalin’s ideological illusions had led him to… — John Lewis Gaddis Copy Share Image
The United States has used force abroad more than 130 times, but has only declared war five times - the War of… — John Yoo Copy Share Image
The first war plan has failed because of Iraqi resistance. Now they are trying to write another war plan. Clearly, the American… — Peter Arnett Copy Share Image
In retrospect, the political and cultural climate in the early '60s seems both a time of innocence and also like a sultry,… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
All of a sudden, making a Spanish-American War joke. I think you sort of had to go to probably to an American… — David Mandel Copy Share Image
“Media censorship is a prohibition of words and pictures. The war on drugs is a complete failure, and so is the American… — Oliver Markus Copy Share Image
As always, there was an all-American war hero look to him, coded in his tousled brown hair, his summer-narrowed hazel eyes, the… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt has been described as founder of the Bull Moose Party, the man who led his troops up San… — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
“Southerner Tom Watson, a populist Jeffersonian from Georgia, faced potential prosecution under the law because his newspaper often opposed Wilson’s war aims… — Brion T. McClanahan Copy Share Image
Saving Italy is an astonishing account of a little known American effort to save Italy’s vast store of priceless monuments and art… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
I would say the special experience of American wartime policy in the last 40 years, from Vietnam on, is that the war… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
“Roosevelt reasoned, “if the Vice-Presidency led to the Governor Generalship of the Philippines, then the question would be entirely altered.” That post… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
The American war is over; but this far from being the case with the American revolution. On the contrary, nothing but the… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
“From the experience of state militias during the American Revolution, to the Spanish-American War; from the legendary Merrill’s Marauders, the highly skilled… — Tom Mangold Copy Share Image
“I was snagged around the midriff and thrown back to the bed, my head hitting the pillows, and Vance Crowe rolled his… — Kristen Ashley Copy Share Image
Younger people who are being indoctrinated into the contemporary system of falsification - they really have to do some research to find… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Known as "Ike,” Eisenhower was born prior to the Spanish American War on October 14, 1890. Graduating from West Point Military Academy… — Captain Hank Bracker Copy Share Image
“Unlike European empires, ours was supposed to entail a concert of equal, sovereign democratic American republics, with shared interests and values, led… — Greg Grandin Copy Share Image
“She liked a very particular kind of plot: the sort where the pirate kidnaps some virgin damsel, rapes her into loving him,… — Nicole Peeler Copy Share Image
“It is always a fashion to advise disputants to sit round a table and solve disputes by dialogue and discussion, and not… — V. Navaratnam Copy Share Image
“This giant fleet of American warships – a modern armada – churns across the ocean day and night for a journey of… — James Bradley Copy Share Image
“Dad’s favorite subject was history, but he taught it with a decidedly west-of-the-Pecos point of view. As the proud son of an… — Jeannette Walls Copy Share Image
“Thus, in that inevitable taking of sides which comes from selection and emphasis in history, I prefer to try to tell the… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“She retired early and, consequently, was in ignorance of the receipt of a telegram by Sylvanus Starr announcing the return of Andy… — Caroline Lockhart Copy Share Image
The world is witnessing first hand, live on television, the hearts ofAmerican warriors - and the spirit and pride only displayed by… — Ada F Kay Copy Share Image
“This was the fall of 2004. The wider world was deeply fucked, and home also. Two American wars raging—bloodbaths each, bloodbath major… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
We've trained and trained for a reason: to be better at the craft of war than our enemy, to use our skill… — Marcus Luttrell Copy Share Image
It takes a disciplined imagination to acknowledge that the less personal savageries of bombs, missiles, artillery and heavy weapons are, to those… — James Carroll Copy Share Image
“In the weeks that followed, his poll numbers slid further after he engaged in extended attacks on the parents of a slain… — Joshua Green Copy Share Image
“So it might be speculated that the British exported their dissidents and so suffered their revolution three thousand miles away from home… — Timothy C.W. Blanning Copy Share Image
The intelligence community is so vast that more people have top secret clearance than live in Washington. The U.S. will spend more… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
“From the book he carefully tears out several maps, and in this light Afghanistan’s mountains and hills and restlessly branching corridors of… — Nadeem Aslam Copy Share Image
