American history Quote by Malcolm Bradbury

Here in Britain, we can get a little bit snobby about American history. Yes, their history is not quite as long as ours. But…

— Michael Portillo

American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.

— Anonymous

It's not the sentiments of men which make history but their actions.

— Norman Mailer

All history is just one man trying to take something away from another man, and usually it doesn't really belong to either of them.

— Andrew Davidson

Men make history. History does not make the man.

— Harry S. Truman

In Britain, British history is naturally a mainstream subject. Step outside your own narrow specialism, and you can find yourself treading on someone else's…

— Linda Colley

I like American history.

— Kevin Costner

It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends.…

— Karl Marx

The attitude of the English towards English history reminds one a good deal of the attitude of a Hollywood director towards love.

— Margaret Halsey

On the history of black people in Britain, again, our history of race is not America's history of race.

— Kemi Badenoch

Men are not the causers of history. History itself, by a pressure of events, causes men to resort to particular actions.

— Tanith Lee

It sometimes seems to me that the whole course of English history was one of accident, confusion, chance and unintended consequences - there's no…

— Peter Ackroyd