America Quote by Henry Kissinger

The United States tried, by depressing the clutch of diplomacy and downshifting the gearshift lever of rhetoric, to remain neutral, but it became increasingly…

— Dave Barry

Following the haphazard withdrawal from Afghanistan, the American people, especially those of our Armed Services community, rightly expressed anger and condemnation toward the Biden…

— Byron Donalds

Then as now, whatever disagreements over policies existed among Americans - and there were many such bitter policy disputes - the purposes and goals…

— Allen Weinstein

In times of war, it is often best to look to our history to see how past generations of Americans dealt with the loss…

— Virginia Foxx

“This isn't to deny that there were fierce arguments, at the time and ever since, about the causes and goals of both the Civil…

— George Packer

Today, war of necessity is used by critics of military action to describe unavoidable response to an attack like that on Pearl Harbor that…

— William Safire

“Socially, politically, economically, militarily, culturally, racially, sexually, demographically, even mythologically, World War II was the crucible that forged modern America. It was the transforming…

— Haynes Johnson

“Something new had happened. The United States had gone to war, not under enemy attack, nor to protect the lives or property of American…

— T.R. Fehrenbach

The two world wars boosted American power and devastated potential rivals to an extent that could not have lasted more than a few decades.

— Ian Bremmer

We were succeeding. When you looked at specifics, this became a war of attrition. We were winning.

— William Westmoreland

“There are situations that a nation may be in, in which peace or war, abstracted from every other consideration, may be politically right or…

— Thomas Paine

In the middle of the nineteenth century, the United States embarked on a new relationship with death, entering into a civil war that proved…

— Drew Gilpin Faust