America and americans Quote by Herbert Hoover

“Writing during the heyday of Modernization Theory, the French critic Raymond Aron, though resolutely anti-communist, termed American-style individualism the product of a short history…

— Pankaj Mishra

The greatest question of our time is not communism vs. individualism, not Europe vs. America, not even the East vs. the West; it is…

— Will Durant

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

— Allen Weinstein

“For Americans as a nation hate war, and see the folly of it more clearly than many peoples of the Old World. They have…

— H.E. Marshall

“I always have felt that we are a nation that is very different . . . unique, perhaps. We were founded by thinking men,…

— Jeff Shaara

“The argument that there are just wars often rests on the social system of the nation engaging in war. It is supposed that if…

— Howard Zinn

I wanted to look at the differences between how we fought then and how we fight now, because the current lack of closure generates…

— Chris Cleave

“Yet in the 1950s and '60s, a wide range of historians quickly and uncritically...[sought to] rule out of serious discussion of the American founding…

— William Hogeland

Americans tended to think of war as something that had to be done from time to time, for a particular purpose or goal. They…

— David Hackett Fischer

But while the American Constitution was the child of war, ours grew out of discussion, bargaining and negotiation.

— John Allen Fraser

“If it were but known that the combined might of the world was against aggression, the war-minded could only seek his salvation in peace,…

— Eden Phillpotts

“People everywhere were being told that this war was no continuation of politics by other means, no traditional struggle for limited objectives. It was…

— G.J. Meyer