American History Quotes
160 American History quotes by 141 unique authors
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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
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American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
— James A. Baldwin
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Bill and Hillary Clinton are the most investigated couple in American history - now the most thoroughly exonerated couple in American history.
— Paul Begala
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Students of reading, writing and common arithmetick . . . Graecian [Greek], Roman, English and American history . . . should be rendered . .…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The wort terrorist attack in American history also brought out the best in our country...We are United as Americans.
— Barack Obama
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The Grutter and Gratz decisions, taken together, represent a sad and tragic chapter in American history.
— Ward Connerly
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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
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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
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The frontier has gone, and with its going has closed the first period of American history.
— Frederick Jackson Turner
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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