America Quote by Christopher Gadsden

There is more selfishness and less principle among members of Congress than I had any conception of, before I became President of the U.S.

— James K. Polk

This Congress did more to uplift education, more to attack disease in this country and around the world, and more to conquer poverty than…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

I do believe that General Washington had not a firm confidence in the durability of our government. He was naturally distrustful of men, and…

— Thomas Jefferson

“Upon learning that Washington intended to reject the mantle of emperor, no less an authority than George III allegedly observed, “If he does that,…

— Joseph J. Ellis

“Again, for Wilson and the progressives, the American founding was simply a historical event distinct to its own moment and condition. Progress requires that…

— Mark R. Levin

“The Westminster government continued to aggravate the situation by haughty mismanagement, and on 4 July 1776 the Congress passed a Declaration of Independence from…

— Adam Zamoyski

No man with a genius for legislation has appeared in America. They are rare in the history of the world. There are orators, politicians,…

— Henry David Thoreau

... the American Colonists under King George III had it pretty good compared to us. They would wonder why we haven't taken up arms…

— Lewis Goldberg

“Carl Degler says (Out of Our Past): “No new social class came to power through the door of the American revolution. The men who…

— Howard Zinn

“It was through the Declaration of Independence that we Americans acknowledged the eternal quality of man. For by it we abolished a cut-and-dried aristocracy.…

— Owen Wister

If our fathers, in 1776, had acknowledged the principle that a majority had the right to rule the minority, we should never have become…

— Lysander Spooner

You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think.

— Milton Berle