Class Quote by Paul Robeson

“Flash forward to the 1980s and 1990s and it is not foreign fascists we have to put out of our minds in order to…

— Barry Glassner

“Notwithstanding these feelings of insecurity, which were especially obvious in the immediate aftermath of the war, the leaders of America's postwar foreign policy—a group…

— James T. Patterson

Beneath everything else, North and West, there ran a profound, unvoiced, almost subconscious conviction that the [American] nation was going to go on growing-in…

— Bruce Catton

Constant reference to a 'war on terror' did accomplish one major objective: It stimulated the emergence of a culture of fear.

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

“In part because Americans were fearful of enemies within, they went looking for enemies abroad. War and conquest have served to distract nations from…

— Evan Thomas

“Why should our rulers, normally phlegmatic men, react with sudden hysteria to the pinpricks of terrorism when for decades they were able to go…

— J.M. Coetzee

America has long raised political and cultural cognitive dissonance to an art form. We are capable of living with enormous inequality and injustice while…

— Jon Meacham

“He was also aware that while the public was dividing and conquering itself by focusing on banal, media-driven conflicts such as Neoconservatives versus Liberals,…

— James Morcan

“We will always be subjected to these us-versus-them hysteria campaigns as long as people in power seek to divide Americans for their own cynical…

— Arsalan Iftikhar

America and its allies are engaged in a war against a terrorist movement that spans all corners of the globe. It is sparked by…

— Kenny Marchant

The temptation in any approaching crisis or conflict is, because people haven't got a clue what lies ahead, they're always searching into the past…

— Antony Beevor

In the mighty and almost limitless potential of American industry-the brilliance and rugged determination of its leaders; the skill, energy and patriotism of its…

— Douglas MacArthur