American history Quote by Jordan L. Hawk

“He was an American character, one typical of men of his generation, men who embraced the notion of freedom and individualism and the open…

— Barack Obama

“He is an Englishman, and in the midst of national and professional prejudices, unsoftened by cultivation, retains some of the noblest endowments of humanity.”

— Mary Shelley

“In many ways he was like America itself, big and strong, full of good intentions, a roll of fat jiggling at his belly, slow…

— Tim O'Brien

“In his combination of earnestness, social conscience, and willingness to scrap, he was a perfect hero for 1943, as America went about the rumbling,…

— Michael Chabon

“The ferocious virtues that had been necessary for survival on the American frontier were theirs: they were men who lived freely, wastefully, independently, and…

— Wallace Stegner

“Hard, brown, ancient, he possessed a prehistoric strain of maleness, a blend of grit and integrity and calcified stubbornness that was rare in Lyndon…

— Phil Knight

“Young men who had fought for an uncertain cause felt equally uncertain about their place in modern America.”

— Paul Brody

“As he spoke, he looked into their faces and saw, as though in his own features, that fundamentally they all bore the indelible impress…

— Alexander Solzhenitsyn

“[...] perhaps these thirty years of revolution had taught him that men are unfit for liberty, and he thought that he had spent his…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“Perhaps his taciturnity hid a contempt for the human race which had abandoned the great dreams of his youth and now wallowed in sluggish…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“His act was rather that of a harmless lunatic than an enemy. We were not so new to the country as not to know…

— Ambrose Bierce

[T]he man who, in the concrete pressure of a struggle for national independence by a single people, had the coolness, forecast, and capacity to…

— Abraham Lincoln