American history Quote by Samuel Blumenfeld

Harvard is the home of American ideas.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Harvard was an extraordinary window on the world.

— Pierre Trudeau

Harvard was very important to me and has been very important to so many people for so many years.

— John Paulson

When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas.

— M. H. Abrams

“Theodore Roosevelt once said: “In 1880, I was graduated from Harvard University and then my education began.”

— Herbert N Cassion

Taking a look back, one big reqret is, I left Harvard with no real awareness of the awful inequities in the world. The appalling…

— Bill Gates

“In the fall of 1998, I began my freshman year at San Diego State University, which my dad commonly referred to as 'Harvard, without…

— Justin Halpern

America's founding fathers did not intend to take religion out of education. Many of the nation's greatest universities were founded by evangelists and religious…

— Billy Graham

Almost nothing anyone told me about Harvard has been accurate.

— Alexandra Petri

“Harvard College was probably less hurtful than any other university then in existence. It taught little, and that little ill, but it left the…

— Henry Adams

All the historians are Harvard people. It just isn't fair. Poor old Hoover from West Branch, Iowa, had no chance with that crowd;nor did…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Do I miss Harvard? Not for a second. With a few exceptions... those four years are ones I would rather forget.

— Charlie Baker