America Quote by Jerry Lewis

One of the things I'm most proud of about my country is the fact that we did lick McCarthyism back in the fifties.

— Pete Seeger

After world war all we got was a lot of conformity, and conservatism and when I was in college at the university of Illinois…

— Hugh Hefner

There is certainly greatness in the '60s generation. They changed our attitudes about race in America, which was long overdue. They didn't just stand…

— Tom Brokaw

“As a culture, we had no heroes. Certainly not any politician--Barack Obama was then the most admired man in America (and likely still is),…

— J.D. Vance

“American cold war culture represented an age of anxiety. The anxiety was so severe that it sought relief in an insistent, assertive optimism. Much…

— W. Scott Poole

I looked back on the roaring Twenties - with its jazz, 'Great Gatsby,' and the pre-Code films - as a party I had somehow…

— Hugh Hefner

Nothing happened in the sixties except that we all dressed up.

— John Lennon

Television has changed how we choose our leaders. It elected Ronald Reagan and a host of Kennedy-look-alike congressmen with blow-dried hair and gleaming teeth.…

— Ronald Steel

I remember the 1940s as a time when we were united in a way known only to that generation. We belonged to a common…

— Gene Tierney

Maybe the '50s and '60s were more awkward because everyone knew there were things under the surface, but no one talked about them.

— Lily Koppel

I'm a child of the sixties, I'm a man of the sixties. During that period of time this country was coming apart at the…

— Curt Flood

I've always been drawn to the American style in the late '50s and '60s.

— Thom Browne