Achieve Quote by Heather Cox Richardson

Leading the boom of 1838 were state governments, who, finding themselves with the unexpected windfall of a distributed surplus from the federal government, proceeded…

— Murray Rothbard

Abraham Lincoln and others recoiled from the idea of government as a prop for the rich. In organizing the Republican Party, they highlighted the…

— Heather Cox Richardson

Mind you, Mount Rushmore isn't exactly the Parthenon or the Sistine Chapel either. After the naïve daftness of the Crazy Horse monument, I find…

— Stephen Fry

Republicans who controlled the government in the 1920s insisted that national prosperity depended on government protection of the rich, who they believed would plow…

— Heather Cox Richardson

After the Great Depression and after public urging, a nationwide public competition was held to determine a design for a memorial that would honor…

— Russ Carnahan

You see, greatness for a state doesn't require some huge monument for all to see. It is not a journey to a particular destination…

— Sonny Perdue

“With so much new territory to carve into states, the balance of Congressional power became a hot topic in the decade after the purchase,…

— Charles River Editors

Those who proposed the Constitution knew, and those who ratified the Constitution also knew that this is...a limited government tied down to specified powers....It…

— James Madison

Republicans controlled the federal government for decades after the Civil War, and their policies funneled wealth upward -- with dire consequences. In 1893, the…

— Heather Cox Richardson

In the North, the sale of government bonds was the one measure for raising funds that seemed to work. Even that, however, with the…

— G. Edward Griffin

Washington and Lincoln mean as much to us as any two men could mean to a civilization, a people, and age, but I told…

— Gutzon Borglum

I wanted to come to Washington, D.C. and help be a transformative President. And I think history, when they look back, will say this…

— George W. Bush