Bitter Quote by Allen Weinstein

But while the American Constitution was the child of war, ours grew out of discussion, bargaining and negotiation.

— John Allen Fraser

All our problems happened because the Americans made all the decisions.

— Mikis Theodorakis

“Yet in the 1950s and '60s, a wide range of historians quickly and uncritically...[sought to] rule out of serious discussion of the American founding…

— William Hogeland

When our interests matched, the Americans have been good to us, and when the interests differed, they wanted us to mold ourselves to them,…

— Bashar al-Assad

The tragedy of America is that it entered all the wars with a consensus in favor of them, but within a defined period, the…

— Henry Kissinger

“...the fight that political philosophers have always identified as the central conflict in human history: that between the individual and society. Thus far, scholars…

— Thaddeus Russell

Of course, there were huge disagreements in the arguments of military intervention, .. There is no point at the moment on focusing on those disagreements.

— Chris Patten

We thought that whatever we wanted to do was right and good, simply because we were Americans, and we would succeed at it because…

— Neil Sheehan

This was a type of war that we'd had no experience with before. Some of our policies were kind of trial and error in…

— William Westmoreland

Our country was founded upon the principles of debate and compromise.

— Seth Moulton

Obviously, we've all had disagreements and differences in the past. I suspect we'll have them again in the future. But last night as Americans…

— Barack Obama

Americans tended to think of war as something that had to be done from time to time, for a particular purpose or goal. They…

— David Hackett Fischer