American History Quotes

President Barack Obama has stood watch over the greatest job loss in modern American history. And that, my friends, is one inconvenient truth that will haunt this President throughout history.
Mitt Romney

History, Truth, Greatest

American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
James A. Baldwin

History, Beautiful, Said

I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history.
Morgan Freeman

History, Black, American

No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.
Richard M. Nixon

History, War, American

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

History, Food, Successful

In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins.
Newt Gingrich

History, True, American

Black history is American history.
Morgan Freeman

History, Black, American

We wonder if we will be the first generation in American history to leave our children with fewer opportunities and a less prosperous nation than the one we inherited.
Paul Ryan

History, Children, American

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

History, Today, Leader

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

History, Greatest, Political

Barack Obama is one of the greatest politicians in American history.
John Podhoretz

History, Greatest, American

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

History, Made, American

Nixon in 1968, unlike Obama 2008, was elected as a minority president with only 43 percent of the vote. Yet, in 1972, he won what, in some measures, was the most lopsided election in American history with 61 percent.
John Podhoretz

History, Vote, American

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

History, Him, American

The great and abiding lesson of American history, particularly the cold war, is that the engine of capitalism, the individual, is mightier than any collective.
Rand Paul

Great, History, War

I like American history.
Kevin Costner

History, American

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

Women, History, Freedom

What would be the nicest thing I could say about Newt Gingrich? He may be one of the great supporters of the humanities, because you have people who don't want to study the social sciences, because it's not profitable, and now Newt, as the highest-paid historian in American history, may be an encouragement to people to study history.
Barney Frank

Great, History, May

I started drumming around the same time I came across this part of American history. But there seemed to be a way forward playing drums. There didn't seem to be a way forward being fascinated by a piece of history.
Phil Collins

Time, History, Forward

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

Great, Positive, History

We are now in the Me Decade - seeing the upward roll of the third great religious wave in American history.
Tom Wolfe

Great, History, American

When I was in school, all our history books were American, so we learned American history, not Canadian history.
Dave Foley

History, School, Learned

The Declaration of Independence is a sacred part of American history.
Paul Gillmor

History, American, Sacred

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

Time, History, Long

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

History, American, Modern

Barack Obama is the most antibusiness president in a generation, perhaps in American history.
Dinesh D'Souza

History, American, President

American history contains much matter for pride and congratulation, and much matter for regret and humiliation.
Herbert Croly

History, Regret, Pride

Through educational programming, Jewish American History Month will help raise the awareness of a people, their history and contributions. It will help combat anti-Semitism, a phenomenon that is on the rise and that unfortunately still exists in our Nation.
Jan Schakowsky

History, Help, Through

I hated the lost colony; in second grade, we were doing American History, and they said, We don't know what happened to them. That drove me nuts. That lost colony drove me crazy.
Sarah Vowell

History, Crazy, Lost

First of all, there's no mention of political parties in the Constitution, so you begin American history with not only no political conventions but also no parties.
Michael Beschloss

History, Political, American

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