quotes about American History
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I grew up in the South, so a huge part of our American History education revolved around the Civil War.
-- Anson MountSource : "Q&A – Anson Mount (Cullen Bohannon)". AMCtv.com Interview, www.amc.com. November 2011.
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The struggle between centralization and decentralization is at the core of American history.
-- Anthony Gregory -
The wort terrorist attack in American history also brought out the best in our country...We are United as Americans.
-- Barack Obama -
I'm very interested in the early American history, the time when the country came together.
-- Ben Stiller -
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When you have the worst disaster in American history, you've got to be attuned to expectations,.
-- Charles Krauthammer -
By looking into more details of American history, we can make more sense of what's happening today.
-- Christoph Waltz -
When I was in school, all our history books were American, so we learned American history, not Canadian history.
-- Dave FoleySource : Interview with Stephen Thompson, www.avclub.com. October 14, 1998.
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Hurricane Katrina is without question the worst natural disaster in American history,.
-- Douglas BrinkleySource : "Douglas Brinkley to write Katrina book". www.today.com. September 13, 2005.
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There have been times throughout American history where what is right is not the same as what is legal. Sometimes to do the right thing you have to break the law.
-- Edward SnowdenSource : "Edward Snowden’s Motive Revealed: He Can ‘Sleep at Night’". Interview with Brian Williams, www.nbcnews.com. May 28, 2014.
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The whole westward expansion myth is seen as romantic. But its a joke, a blot on American history.
-- Frank Waters -
For a long time in American history, people didn't even come up before the Senate. They didn't come before the Judiciary Committee, and up until about 1923, something like that
-- Fred Thompson -
The frontier has gone, and with its going has closed the first period of American history.
-- Frederick Jackson TurnerSource : "The Significance of the Frontier in American History" (1893) See Bancroft 1; Robert P. Porter 1; Turner 1
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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 -
American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
-- James A. Baldwin -
I love thinking about American history, thinking about LA history. I love brooding on crime.
-- James Ellroy -
American history is not something dead and over. It is always alive,always growing, always unfinished.
-- John F. Kennedy -
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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 -
Barack Obama is one of the greatest politicians in American history.
-- John PodhoretzSource : "A brilliant victory" by John Podhoretz, nypost.com. November 7, 2012.
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I understood....that in my own life I represented a whole period of American history.
-- Laura Ingalls Wilder -
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A trillion dollars spent, 2,000 American lives lost - Afghanistan is the longest war in American history. But you don't hear a word about it.
-- Michael Baumgartner -
Once I thought to write a history of the immigrants in America. Then I discovered that the immigrants were American history.
-- Oscar HandlinSource : Oscar Handlin (2002). “The Uprooted: The Epic Story of the Great Migrations That Made the American People”, p.3, University of Pennsylvania Press
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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 -
The Declaration of Independence is a sacred part of American history.
-- Paul Gillmor -
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There was a time in American history when almost every white person knew who Aretha Franklin was.
-- Peabo Bryson -
There's not much place for the loyalists - especially the loyalists who left - in standard American history.
-- Rachel MartinSource : Source: www.npr.org
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American history is a quagmire, and the more one knows, the quaggier the mire gets.
-- Sarah VowellSource : Sarah Vowell (2003). “The Partly Cloudy Patriot”, p.156, Simon and Schuster
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To an American, land is solidity, goodness, and hope. American history is about land.
-- William Least Heat-Moon -
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Well, I'm a history buff, anyway. I love learning about different periods, especially in American history. I'm a fan.
-- William SadlerSource : "William Sadler on Freedom, naked tai chi, and getting silly as the Grim Reaper". Interview with Will Harris, film.avclub.com. June 20, 2015.
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Barack Obama is the most antibusiness president in a generation, perhaps in American history.
-- Dinesh D'Souza -
I'm a history geek and I love American history. It's so bizarre and so problematic and I love the many conundrums that it represents. You can go down so many black holes.
-- Matana Roberts -
Throughout American history our presidents have invoked our nation's founding fathers. This is particularly true of recent presidents.
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It's not painful to relive it. I'm comfortable with my position in American history.
-- Rodney KingSource : "Rodney King: 'I had to learn to forgive'" by Rory Carroll, www.theguardian.com. May 1, 2012.
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I used to teach. I quote American history and I love words. I've read the dictionary I don't know how many times throughout my life. People say, "You read the dictionary?" I say, "Yes, and you can really believe it."
-- Jackee HarrySource : "Jackée Harry on 227, Ladybugs, and why she wants to be the next Maggie Smith". Interview with Marah Eakin, tv.avclub.com. February 26, 2016.