American hero Quote by Seth Meyers

He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend - provided, of course, that he really is dead.

— Voltaire

He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead.

— Voltaire

“As a culture, we had no heroes. Certainly not any politician--Barack Obama was then the most admired man in America (and likely still is),…

— J.D. Vance

“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

“In my fifty years of public life, I have never seen a man [Ronald Reagan] more popular with the American people”

— Tip O'Neill

“President Ronald Reagan, who spent World War II in Hollywood, vividly described his own role in liberating Nazi concentration camp victims. Living in the…

— Carl Sagan

Ronald Reagan in the US was not a particularly popular president, but after his death sectors of wealth and power created a huge propaganda…

— Noam Chomsky

On June 22, 2008, at the age of 71, an American revolutionary died. He was a bona fide genius, an outspoken critich, a literary…

— Corey Taylor

To Ronald Wilson Regan, The Fortieth President of The United States: The Man Who Won The War.

— Tom Clancy

“Gerald Ford, one of the most admirable presidents of our time, once observed that if Lincoln were alive today, he’d be turning over in…

— David McCullough

Ronald Reagan, whatever his pros and cons were, was a public servant in the end.

— Eugene Jarecki

His [Gen. Douglas MacArthur's] own heroes were Lincoln and Washington, and in some ways he resembled them. Like them, he was slandered and misunderstood.

— William Manchester