American History Quotes

160 American History quotes by 141 unique authors

If we look at American history, between 1942 and 1947, the data that was collected by the Census Bureau was handed over to the FBI… — Michele Bachmann
American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it. — James A. Baldwin
Bill and Hillary Clinton are the most investigated couple in American history - now the most thoroughly exonerated couple in American history. — Paul Begala
The acceptance of the facts of African-American history and the African-American historian as a legitimate part of the academic community did not come easily. Slavery… — John Henrik Clarke
Won't it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from one book. Just… — Maya Angelou
My ideal man is Benjamin Franklin-the figure in American history most worthy of emulation ... Franklin is my ideal of a whole man. ... Where… — Isidor Isaac Rabi
Voting against the resolution authorizing the use of military force in Iraq was one of my proudest moments as a senator. It is long past… — Barbara Boxer
I'll change the posture of our federal government from being one of the most anti-science administrations in American history to one that embraces science and… — Barack Obama
Students of reading, writing and common arithmetick . . . Graecian [Greek], Roman, English and American history . . . should be rendered . .… — Thomas Jefferson
The wort terrorist attack in American history also brought out the best in our country...We are United as Americans. — Barack Obama
What we need to do is to have a sensible approach to immigration. It needs to be open. It needs to be non-dogmatic and non-bigoted.… — William J. Clinton
I argued last year on my shared blog that selling the right to immigrate would be the best approach to legal immigration. Among other benefits,… — Gary Becker
It's been written that the most sublime figure in American history was George Washington on his knees in the snow at Valley Forge. He personified… — Ronald Reagan
Criticism will survive even if no one's paying for it. Obviously it's better if people are paying for it. But the fact that artists weren't… — Unknown Author
More people are on food stamps today because of Obamas policies than ever in history. I would like to be the best paycheck president in… — Newt Gingrich
The Grutter and Gratz decisions, taken together, represent a sad and tragic chapter in American history. — Ward Connerly
No man-made structure in all of American history has been hated so much, by so many, for so long, with such good reason, as that… — Edward Abbey
Up to our own day American history has been in a large degree the history of the colonization of the Great West. The existence of… — Frederick Jackson Turner
The frontier has gone, and with its going has closed the first period of American history. — Frederick Jackson Turner
We've been a free people living under the law, with faith in our Maker and in our future. I've said before that the most sublime… — Ronald Reagan
We are going to have the candidate of food stamps, the finest food-stamp president in the American history, in Barack Obama, and we are going… — Newt Gingrich
The war against Iraq is as disastrous as it is unnecessary; perhaps in terms of its wisdom, purpose and motives, the worst war in American… — William Sloane Coffin
There can be no argument about the Lone Star State's significant contributions to American history, and we must remember the actions and the sacrifices of… — Michael McCaul
The present illegitimacy ratio is not only unprecedented in the past two centuries; it is unprecedented, so far as we know, in American history going… — Gertrude Himmelfarb
You know what? I didn't mess up about Paul Revere. ... [I]n a shout-out, gotcha type of question that was asked of me, I answered… — Sarah Palin

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