American Quote by Henry Louis Gates

With regard to military discipline, I may safely say that no such thing existed in the Continental Army.

— Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben

To exclude from positions of trust and command all those below the age of 44 would have kept Jefferson from writing the Declaration of…

— John F. Kennedy

“the all-time master of exits wanted to make his final departure from the public stage the occasion for explaining his own version of what…

— Joseph J. Ellis

Now is the seedtime of continental union, faith and honor. The least fracture now, will be like a name engraved with the point of…

— Thomas Paine

This is where the Continental Congress met over two hundred years ago during the American Revolution. So, Lancaster was actually the capital of our…

— Dan Quayle

“That there would be a political advantage in having the declaration written by a Virginian was clear, for the same reason there had been…

— David McCullough

“The Continental army got more generals than they got private soldiers, these days. An officer lives through more 'n two battles, they make him…

— Diana Gabaldon

“His military triumphs had been neither frequent nor epic in scale. He had lost more battles than he had won, had botched several through…

— Ron Chernow

“An unpleasant odour would not be objected to, it is not objected to now in many continental hotels.”

— H.G. Wells

In politics continental Europe was infantile - horrifying. What America lacked, for all its political stability, was the capacity to enjoy intellectual pleasures as…

— Saul Bellow

Unlike the rationalism of the French Revolution, true liberalism has no quarrel with religion, and I can only deplore the militant and essentially illiberal…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

China is one of those vast, continental conglomerates that... I mean, if they were to start a tourist trade in China, they'd just bus…

— Damon Albarn