American History Quotes - Page 6

• 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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• 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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• 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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• I like American history, so I was aware of the participants and a lot of it.

  Kevin Costner

  "Kevin Costner Talks HATFIELDS & McCOYS, Dramatic License in a Historical Tale, and Future Projects". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 16, 2012.

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• So many people of color who made major contributions to American history have been trapped in the purgatory of history.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Color, People, Made

  "Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr". "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. March 19, 2008.

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• President Obama is the most successful food stamp president in American history. I would like to be the most successful paycheck president in American history.

  Newt Gingrich

  Successful, President, Paychecks

  "Gingrich promises to slash taxes, calls Obama ‘food stamp president’" by Philip Rucker, www.washingtonpost.com. May 13, 2011 May 13, 2011.

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• It's not painful to relive it. I'm comfortable with my position in American history.

  Rodney King

  Painful, Position, Comfortable

  "Rodney King: 'I had to learn to forgive'" by Rory Carroll, www.theguardian.com. May 1, 2012.

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• The school curriculum today, particularly American history, is a shame.

  Rush Limbaugh

  School, Curriculum, Today

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• The arc of American history almost inevitably moves toward freedom. Whether it's Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation, the expansion of women's rights or, now, gay rights, I think there is an almost-inevitable march toward greater civil liberties.

  James McGreevey

  Moving, Gay, Thinking

  "Jersey Boy". Interview with Deborah Solomon, www.nytimes.com. April 29, 2009.

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• Do I feel any pressure as the most decorated Winter Olympian in American history? None at all. The only pressures that I know I face are those of how to pay it forward: How can I continually make a positive impact in people's lives, help others achieve their dreams, create their own Olympic mindset, creating champions within themselves?

  Apolo Ohno

  Dream, Winter, Helping Others

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• The Grutter and Gratz decisions, taken together, represent a sad and tragic chapter in American history.

  Ward Connerly

  Taken, Decision, Together

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• No man-made structure in all of American history has been hated so much, by so many, for so long, with such good reason, as that Glen Canyon Dam at Page, Arizona, Shithead Capital of Coconino County.

  Edward Abbey

  Men, Long, Dams

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.46, RosettaBooks

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• I was right about one of the most significant issues in modern American history. I was the only one who was right about one of the most significant issues in modern American history.

  Scott Ritter

  Issues, Modern, Significant

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• English history is all about men liking their fathers, and American history is all about men hating their fathers and trying to burn down everything they ever did.

  Malcolm Bradbury

  Father, Hate, Men

  Malcolm Bradbury (2012). “Stepping Westward”, p.168, Pan Macmillan

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• The whole westward expansion myth is seen as romantic. But its a joke, a blot on American history.

  Frank Waters

  Expansion, Myth, Whole

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• The struggle between centralization and decentralization is at the core of American history.

  Anthony Gregory

  Struggle, Centralization, Core

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• Cherishing Columbus is a characteristic of white history, not American history.

  James W. Loewen

  White, Columbus, Cherish

  James W. Loewen (2013). “Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong”, p.83, The New Press

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• And the other issue is Gore, $4.6 trillion - the single largest expansion of government in American history, from universal preschool, now, to prescriptions to health care - it is Socialism 101.

  Sean Hannity

  Government, Issues, Expansion

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• There is nothing antithetical in American history, culture, or traditions to teamwork. Teams were important in America's history - wagon trains conquered the West, men working together on the assembly line in American industry conquered the world, a successful national strategy and a lot of teamwork put an American on the moon first (and thus fare, last). But American mythology extols only the individual...In America, halls of fame exist for almost every conceivable activity, but nowhere do Americans raise monuments in praise of teamwork.

  Lester Thurow

  Teamwork, Successful, Moon

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• Populism is the simple premise that markets need to be restrained by society and by a democratic political system. We are not socialists or communists, we are proponents of regulated capitalism and, I might add, people who have read American history.

  Molly Ivins

  Simple, People, Political

  "I Told You So". archive.is. May 30, 2002.

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• All of Western tradition, from the late bloom of the British Empire right through the early doom of Vietnam, dictates that you do something spectacular and irreversible whenever you find yourself in or whenever you impose yourself upon a wholly unfamiliar situation belonging to somebody else. Frequently it's your soul or your honor or your manhood, or democracy itself, at stake.

  June Jordan

  History, African American, Soul

  June Jordan (1981). “Civil Wars”, Beacon Pr

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• I want people to use Perl. I want to be a positive ingredient of the world and make my American history. So, whatever it takes to give away my software and get it used, that's great.

  Larry Wall

  People, Giving, Use

  Interview with Maya Tamiya, lwn.net. January 17, 2001.

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• No library of American business achievement is complete without the story of Arthur G. Gaston. . . . Black Titan is a long overdue contribution to the recording of not just black history, but American history.

  Earl G. Graves, Sr.

  Long, Achievement, Black History

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