American History Quotes

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.

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

The frontier has gone, and with its going has closed the first period of American history.

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

American history is not something dead and over. It is always alive,always growing, always unfinished.

I love thinking about American history, thinking about LA history. I love brooding on crime.

Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are the most disliked and untrusted candidates for president in American history.

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

I'm working on restoring a cabinet over the obstruction of Senate Democrats. It will be one of the great cabinets ever assembled in American history.

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

I understood....that in my own life I represented a whole period of American history.

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

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

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.

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.

I grew up in the South, so a huge part of our American History education revolved around the Civil War.

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.

At various periods in American history, people get pretty rambunctious when it comes to our democratic debate.

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

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

Hurricane Katrina is without question the worst natural disaster in American history.

To an American, land is solidity, goodness, and hope. American history is about land.

Barack Obama is the most antibusiness president in a generation, perhaps in American history.

What the left are trying to do is to persuade millions of Americans that America itself is so unjust and illegitimate from the days of our founding that it isn't worth defending. It's that despicable. That's the objective here, and they are being aided and abetted by the fact that American history is so ill-taught.

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

The wort terrorist attack in American history also brought out the best in our country...We are United as Americans.

The fault line in American history is now a dividing line in the election and it's changing the conversation.

You know what? I didn't mess up about Paul Revere... In a shout-out, gotcha type of question that was asked of me, I answered candidly. And I know my American history.

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

Jimmy Carter will go down in American history as 'the president who lost Iran,'

There have been many amazing Presidents in American history, including George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Dwight Eisenhower and Ronald Reagan, all of whom I greatly admire.

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."

Donald Trump will be a tragedy, a sad joke in American history.

I think so. 9/11 has been a turning point in American history, there's no doubt about that.

...Venice has been the living future of contemporary American history since its inception.

I do think Donald Trump would be a catastrophic turn in American history.

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.

I'm very interested in the early American history, the time when the country came together.

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.

When you have the worst disaster in American history, you've got to be attuned to expectations,.

I'm sure that a previous generation of Jews who published radical newspapers and journals would be critical of [David] Simon's projects. These were left wingers who suffered casualties in some of bloodiest strikes in American history.

Barack Obama is facing a financial emergency on a grander scale. Yet his approach has been to engage in one of the biggest peacetime spending binges in American history.

Donald Verrilli has argued 37 cases in five years on behalf of the [Barak] Obama administration. Many of them turned out to be truly landmark cases. He is the seventh-longest-serving solicitor general in American history.

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

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

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

Throughout American history our presidents have invoked our nation's founding fathers. This is particularly true of recent presidents.

Well, I'm a history buff, anyway. I love learning about different periods, especially in American history. I'm a fan.

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.

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