There is, of course, a legitimate argument for some limitation upon immigration. We no longer need settlers for virgin lands, and our… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Winter makes a bridge between one year and another and, in this case, one century and the next. — Andy Goldsworthy Copy Share Image
During the first 13 centuries after the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem, no one thought of setting up a creche to celebrate… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
Latinos have fought in all of America’s wars, beginning with the Revolutionary War. Many Latinos are fighting and dying for our country… — Joe Baca Copy Share Image
In the 19th century China dominated the manufacture of porcelain. Then European factories discovered a cheaper method of making pottery of equal… — Martin Sorrell Copy Share Image
For the system of government you fashioned including the very principles on which you based it, is increasingly obsolete, and hence increasingly,… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
American strategists have calculated the proportion of civilians killed in this century's major wars. In the First World War, 5 percent of… — Colin Ward Copy Share Image
It has been very humbling and gratifying to have these men as our role models. Your generation enabled America to close out… — Eric Shinseki Copy Share Image
Every civil government is based upon some religion or philosophy of life. Education in a nation will propagate the religion of that… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
Gershwin's melodic gift was phenomenal. His songs contain the essence of New York in the 1920s and have deservedly become classics of… — George Gershwin Copy Share Image
Theoretically, you can make, obviously, a powerful argument that centuries of slavery, Jim Crow, discrimination are the primary cause for all those… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
When the Industrial Revolution of the nineteenth century brought a rapid increase in wealth, the demand of workers for a fair share… — John Boyd Orr Copy Share Image
The theory of social contracts extends as far back as Plato. However, it was the great 18th century social philosophers John Locke,… — Simon Mainwaring Copy Share Image
A stable 21st century society requires 21st century solutions not 20th century economics — Phil Harding Copy Share Image
The history of American higher education over the twentieth century is an extraordinary one, the story of the creation of a powerhouse… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
Since the middle of the twentieth century, our understanding of the American past has been revolutionized, in no small part because of… — Drew Gilpin Faust Copy Share Image
The constitution of madness as a mental illness, at the end of the eighteenth century, affords the evidence of a broken dialogue,… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
I am at the moment writing a lengthy indictment against our century. When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors,… — John Kennedy Toole Copy Share Image
It's always amusing to look at how something early in the 20th century was written in anthropology and how it's written now.… — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
ON the decline of the Roman power, about five centuries after Christ, the countries of Northern Europe were left almost destitute of… — Thomas Bulfinch Copy Share Image
In the name of celibacy, sex has been repressed for centuries and you have become just full of sexuality. Rather than transcending… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Book burning is a charming old custom, hallowed by antiquity. It has been practiced for centuries by fascists, communists, atheists, school children,… — Richard Armour Copy Share Image
Religion was made to order to "save the world," to use a phrase Christians use so much, but we really haven't been… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
