History Quote by Robert M. Gates

“And one day...there would be no record, nothing left standing, to show that anything had ever been built in America. It was going to…

— Philipp Meyer

“America was a great force in the world, with immense prestige, long before we became a great military power. That power has come to…

— Robert Francis Kennedy

“He was not what he made up his mind to be. A man was the sum of his limits: freedom only made him see…

— Gish Jen

“He had been told that in America, if you worked hard, anything was possible.”

— Fannie Flagg

“was a full-throated harangue, a typical performance when American officials speak about a regime not aligned with the United States.”

— Glenn Greenwald

“Collective security had a fine sound, but it was still little more than a word; it would still be the United States, and the…

— T. R. Fehrenbach

“~ “In their secretly nervous hearts, they’ve convinced themselves, poor little delusional narcissists, that their nation is the most powerful that ever was or…

— Tom Robbins

“No Big Power in all history ever thought of itself as an aggressor. That is still true today.”

— Anonymous

“The idea that the president has the power to craft a new strategy both overstates his power and understates the power of reality crafted…

— George Friedman

“I deigned to suggest to him that it was also the American thing -- America was nothing if not good intentions.”

— Aleksandar Hemon

“He was told that it was impossible, that America was not a place for shtetls, and that his plan would surely fail. It almost…

— Shulem Deen

“Everyone wanted to create his own history. There was nothing as powerful as the written word; history had taught them all that much.”

— Ted Dekker