American History Quotes - Page 6

• Criticism will survive even if no one's paying for it. Obviously it's better if people are paying for it. But the fact that artists weren't able to make a living from their work hasn't detracted from the quality of that work. Charles Ives was the second greatest composer in American history and he worked in insurance his whole life.

  Ignatiy Vishnevetsky

  Artist, People, Criticism

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• It's been written that the most sublime figure in American history was George Washington on his knees in the snow at Valley Forge. He personified a people who knew that it was not enough to depend on their own courage and goodness, that they must also seek help from God - their Father and preserver. Where did we begin to lose sight of that noble beginning, of our conviction that standards of right and wrong do exist and must be lived up to? Do we really think that we can have it both ways, that God will protect us in a time of crisis even as we turn away from him in our day-to-day life?

  Ronald Reagan

  God, Father, Thinking

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• I argued last year on my shared blog that selling the right to immigrate would be the best approach to legal immigration. Among other benefits, the revenue from immigrants' payments could reduce taxes. Paying for the right to immigrate would also negate the argument that immigrants get a free ride when they gain health care and other benefits. Moreover, making immigrants pay would attract the type of immigrants who came much earlier in American history: young men and women who are reasonably skilled and want to make a long-term commitment to the United States.

  Gary Becker

  Commitment, Years, Long

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• What we need to do is to have a sensible approach to immigration. It needs to be open. It needs to be non-dogmatic and non-bigoted. We need to be firm but reasonable in the way we deal with the problem of illegal immigration. And we need to try to get as many of our immigrants who want to do so to become citizens as quickly as possible so that the American people will all see that this is a part of the process of American history, which is a good one for our country.

  William J. Clinton

  Country, People, Trying

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

  Barack Obama

  Country, Powerful, Terrorist

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• 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

  Jobs, Loss, President

  "It's All About the Jobs". Mitt Romney's speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando, Florida, www.foxnews.com. February 11, 2011.

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

  John Podhoretz

  Politician, Barack

  "A brilliant victory" by John Podhoretz, nypost.com. November 7, 2012.

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• 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

  President, Minorities, Election

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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