American History Quotes - Page 5

• To judge by what my children are learning in school, you'd think American history was 75 percent slavery and 25 percent everything else (and that 25 percent includes a large dollop of imperialism, racism, sexism and homophobia, leaving little time for Lincoln, Edison, Clay, Holmes, Alcott, Dickinson, Adams, Longfellow or Fulton).

  Mona Charen

  Children, School, Thinking

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• The Reverend Douglas Wilson may not be a professional historian, as his detractors say, but he has a strong grasp of the essentials of the history of slavery and its relation to Christian doctrine. Indeed, sad to say, his grasp is a great deal stronger than that of most professors of American history, whose distortions and trivializations disgrace our college classrooms. And the Reverend Mr. Wilson is a fighter, especially effective in defense of Christianity against those who try to turn Jesus' way of salvation into pseudo-moralistic drivel.

  Eugene Genovese

  Christian, Strong, Jesus

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• The conversation seemed just as boring and forgettable as details of American history around 1805, for example.

  Patricia Highsmith

  Example, Details, Boring

  Patricia Highsmith (2001). “People Who Knock on the Door”, p.13, W. W. Norton & Company

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• There's not much place for the loyalists - especially the loyalists who left - in standard American history.

  Rachel Martin

  Loyalists, Standards, Left

  Source: www.npr.org

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• What happened in the interim is, billions of records have been digitized. Historians and scholars have always used genealogical records to tell the story of American history. It takes months and years of research. I can't even tell you how laborious that is. You have to be somebody who has a lot of free time, like a professor who can take tenure or someone with a great deal of leisure.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Years, Stories, Records

  "Black Ancestry Matters on 'Finding Your Roots'". Interview with Alexandra Phanor-Faury, www.ebony.com. January 26, 2016.

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• Modern Democrats aren't the first political party to abuse power - far from it. Obama isn'€™t the first president to abuse executive power - not by a longshot. But he has to be the first president in American history to overtly and consistently argue that he's empowered to legislate if Congress doesn'€™t pass the laws he favors. It's an argument that's been mainstreamed by partisans and cheered on by those in media desperate to find a morsel of triumph in this presidency.

  David Harsanyi

  Party, Media, Law

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• Unlike any other leader in modern American history, we are led today by a president that has decided to pit Americans against each other.

  Marco Rubio

  Leader, President, Pits

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• There was a time in American history when almost every white person knew who Aretha Franklin was.

  Peabo Bryson

  White, Franklin, Persons

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• The Catholic Church with its foreshortened American history and tangled puritanical roots was as inviolate to my mother and father as it was to the last-ditch aristocrats of Evelyn Waugh.

  Maureen Howard

  Christian, Mother, Father

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• He sailed through American history like a steel ship loaded with monoliths of granite.

  H. L. Mencken

  Political, Steel, Politics

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.227, Vintage

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• The Obama administration and the Democratic Congress have taken the biggest lurch to the left in policy in American history. There've been no - no Congress, no administration that has run this far to the left in such a small period of time. And there is a reaction to that.

  Haley Barbour

  Running, Taken, Administration

  "Miller: Turn Out Feds, Give Alaska Greater Control of Its Resources". www.foxnews.com. August 29, 2010.

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• His [Gen. Douglas MacArthurs] twenty-two medals-thirteen of them for heroism-probably exceeded those of any other figure in American history. He seemed to seek death on battlefields.

  William Manchester

  Courage, Two, Twenties

  William Manchester (1983). “American Caesar”, Laurel

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• Students of reading, writing and common arithmetick . . . Graecian [Greek], Roman, English and American history . . . should be rendered . . . worthy to receive, and able to guard the sacred deposit of the rights and liberties of their fellow citizens.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Education, Reading, Writing

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• By looking into more details of American history, we can make more sense of what's happening today.

  Christoph Waltz

  Details, Today, Happenings

  "Comic-Con 2012: 'Django' Star Christoph Waltz Says Tarantino's Slavery Film Helps 'Make Sense of What's Happening Today" by Todd Gilchrist, www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 14, 2012.

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• From tea parties to the election in Massachusetts, we are witnessing the single greatest political pushback in American history.

  Marco Rubio

  Party, Political, Tea

  Marco Rubio's Conservative Political Action Conference speech, voices.washingtonpost.com. February 18, 2010.

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• If we look at American history, between 1942 and 1947, the data that was collected by the Census Bureau was handed over to the FBI and other organizations at the request of President Roosevelt, and that's how the Japanese were rounded up and put into the internment camps.

  Michele Bachmann

  Data, Census Bureau, Organization

  "Bachmann Warns Of Link Between Census, Japanese Internment". Fox News Interview, talkingpointsmemo.com. June 25, 2009.

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• Bill and Hillary Clinton are the most investigated couple in American history - now the most thoroughly exonerated couple in American history.

  Paul Begala

  Couple, Bills, Clinton

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• The acceptance of the facts of African-American history and the African-American historian as a legitimate part of the academic community did not come easily. Slavery ended and left its false images of black people intact.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Acceptance, People, Community

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• Until Eleanor Roosevelt, there was only one or two First Ladies in all of American history who made an impact, who people could even have recognized or identified. And it's really only been since Jackie Kennedy that there's been this idea that the family life of the president is such a central thing.

  Gail Collins

  Impact, Ideas, Two

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• Obama has seen to the passage of the most radical legislation in recent American history and so-called 'progressives' should be thanking him for it - even as many of the rest of us rear in horror from its implications.

  John Podhoretz

  Thanking Him, Horror, Legislation

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• American history is a quagmire, and the more one knows, the quaggier the mire gets.

  Sarah Vowell

  Quagmire, Knows

  Sarah Vowell (2003). “The Partly Cloudy Patriot”, p.156, Simon and Schuster

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• My ideal man is Benjamin Franklin-the figure in American history most worthy of emulation ... Franklin is my ideal of a whole man. ... Where are the life-size-or even pint-size-Benjamin Franklins of today?

  Isidor Isaac Rabi

  Hero, Men, History

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• Voting against the resolution authorizing the use of military force in Iraq was one of my proudest moments as a senator. It is long past time to close this tragic chapter in American history.

  Barbara Boxer

  Military, Past, Iraq

  FaceBook post by Senator Barbara Boxer from May 22, 2014

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• I'll change the posture of our federal government from being one of the most anti-science administrations in American history to one that embraces science and technology.

  Barack Obama

  Technology, Government, Administration

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• More people are on food stamps today because of Obamas policies than ever in history. I would like to be the best paycheck president in American history. ... And so Im prepared if the NAACP invites me, Ill go to their convention and talk about why the African-American community should demand paychecks and not be satisfied with food stamps.

  Newt Gingrich

  People, Community, African American

  "What Newt said about food stamps" by Dylan Byers, www.politico.com. January 6, 2012.

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