American history Quote by Carlos Bulosan

“The generations of lives, experiences, and voices of marginalized and silenced Americans offer an array of diverse interpretations of U.S. history that have largely…

— Clarence Lusane

“The high courage and the supreme sacrifice of Americans who gave their lives in battle have made it possible for our land to flourish…

— John F. Kennedy

“Americans were known for a zealous and often immoderate attachment to the United States and all it represented.”

— David H. Finnie

“America was a great force in the world, with immense prestige, long before we became a great military power. That power has come to…

— Robert Francis Kennedy

“To retreat from any of the principles handed down by our forefathers, who shed their blood for the ideals we still embrace, would be…

— Walt Disney

“With each passing day, I become more and more convinced that the greatest threat to American freedom is the United States government.”

— Michel Templet

“Five years later, 750,000 Americans were dead. But the fact that such carnage had been wreaked for a cause that Ulysses S. Grant called…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“How do you force a man to fight – for freedom? The idiocy of it jarred him.”

— Michael Shaara

“It seemed to me then—and to be honest, sir, seems to me still—that America was engaged only in posturing. As a society, you were…

— Mohsin Hamid

“for men whose desire for liberty has been destroyed, liberty must be thrust upon them.”

— Milo Hastings

“We have the freedoms we fight for, and we lose those we don’t defend.”

— Salman Rushdie

“Americans, from the beginning and throughout much of their history, were a warrior people when dealing with those who stood in their path.”

— Richard Kluger