American history Quote by Thaddeus Russell

“The individual strands of our joint history are intertwined. Yet in our attempts to negotiate resolutions to a myriad of conflicts, we remain stuck…

— Paulette Regan

“The explanation is that it is rivals rather than enemies who hamper our beginnings, and it is against them we fight until the great…

— Jean d'Ormesson

“It is my hypothesis that the fundamental source of conflict in this new world will not be primarily ideological or primarily economic. The great…

— Samuel P. Huntington

“For a man is justly despised who has one opinion in history and another in politics, one for abroad and another at home, one…

— John Emerich Edward Dalberg

“Since 1877 the driving force of American politics hasn’t primarily been a class struggle or tension between agrarian and commercial interests, or even between…

— Colin Woodard

“Yet in the 1950s and '60s, a wide range of historians quickly and uncritically...[sought to] rule out of serious discussion of the American founding…

— William Hogeland

“a better reading of history must bring home the truth that the basic factor in human affairs is not politics, but race.”

— T. Lothrop Stoddard

Clashes of values and the struggle for primacy constitute a constant in human history that accounts for that other constant - conflict and war.

— Charles Krauthammer

Many scholars have complained of our tendency to see history only in conflicts, but I am not convinced they are right. It is in…

— Bernard Beckett

“The facet most primed for conflict is liberalism. Most industrial cultures now govern themselves with laws and elected lawmakers. This pits two extremes against…

— Hannah Holmes

“If you study a historical episode and feel good about it, it probably means that you haven't had it explained very well. Historical conflict…

— Patrick N. Allitt

“All concepts of politics, of whatever kind, are about conflict──how to contain it, or abolish it.”

— Ralph Miliband