Century Americans Quotes
- We current justices read the Constitution in the only way that we can: as 20th-century Americans. — William J. Brennan
- Then you get to the last half of the 20th century, Americans are getting very skeptical about their leaders and their institutions, and another place… — Michael Beschloss
- Social historians of the future no doubt will be amused by the fact that we late-twentieth-century Americans found it acceptable to discuss publicly in detail… — Mary Ann Glendon
- My heroes are, above all, the great 19th-century Americans: Emerson, Whitman, Dickinson and the others. I love the way they think. — Marilynne Robinson