American History Quotes - Page 8

• I think people should look at learning about Native American history the same as visiting Washington, D.C., and seeing the monuments there. It's all part of the package.

  Chaske Spencer

  Native American, Thinking, People

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• The countless number of influential figures in American history who are of Caribbean heritage indicates the need to set aside a designated time to celebrate their contribution to our country.

  Eliot Engel

  Country, Numbers, Needs

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• 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

  Party, Political, Firsts

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

  James Ellroy

  Thinking, Crime, Brooding

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• We should not blur the lines between legal and illegal immigrants. Millions of people around the world have gone through the process to come here legally and they followed the rules that required them to pay a fee, learn English, and learn about American history and government.

  Ken Calvert

  Government, People, Gone

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

  Dinesh D'Souza

  President, Generations, Barack

  "How Obama Thinks". www.forbes.com. September 9, 2010.

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• 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

  Long, People, Come Up

  "Choosing a New Supreme Court Justice". "Special Report" with Brit Hume, www.foxnews.com. July 6, 2005.

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• Students of American history will recall that the important place where work gets done in the legislative body, almost without exception, is in the committees, more so than on the floor although sometimes more attention is paid to the floor.

  Paul Sarbanes

  Important, Body, Attention

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

  Paul Gillmor

  Independence, Sacred, Declaration

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• After eight months of one of the most intensive public and private investigations in American history, no one - no one - has come up with a shred of evidence that I had anything to do with the anthrax letters. I have never worked with anthrax. I know nothing about this matter.

  Steven Hatfill

  Eight, Letters, Matter

  Hatfill's Statement, www.foxnews.com. August 11, 2002.

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• May 4th is a particularly memorable day in American history because 84 years to the day before May 4, 1970, there was another demonstration at the Haymarket Square in Chicago.

  William Kunstler

  Memorable, Squares, Years

  "The emerging police state: resisting illegitimate authority". Book by William Moses Kunstler, p. 96, 2004.

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• I'm the treasurer of the state of Ohio, where, when the United States credit rating was downgraded for the first time in American history, and 14 government funds around the country were downgraded, we earned the highest rating we could earn on our $4 billion investment fund.

  Josh Mandel

  Country, Government, Ohio

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

  Ben Stiller

  Country, Together

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• The honest and serious student of American history will recall that our Founding Fathers managed to write both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution without using the term 'democracy' even once. No part of any of the existing state Constitutions contains any reference to the word. [The men] who were most influential in the institution and formulation of our government refer to 'democracy' only to distinguish it sharply from the republican form of our American Constitutional system.

  Clarence Manion

  Father, Writing, Men

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• The takeover of Harvard in 1805 by the Unitarians is probably the most important intellectual event in American history - at least from the standpoint of education

  Samuel Blumenfeld

  Education, Intellectual, Important

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

  William Least Heat-Moon

  Land, Goodness, Solidity

  William Least Heat Moon (1991). “Blue Highways: A Journey Into America”, Mariner Books

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• A President and his wise men can only propose; but Congress disposes. It is when President and Congress agree that American history marches forward.

  Theodore White

  Wise, Men, Democracy

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

  Barack Obama

  Iran, President, Lost

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• I don't know anything about American history or presidents. I don't know what tailgating is! I've never been to an Olive Garden!

  Emma Watson

  Garden, President, Olives

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• It is a pity that so many Americans today think of the Indian as a romantic or comic figure in American history without contemporary significance. In fact, the Indian plays much the same role in our society that the Jews played in Germany. Like the miner’s canary, the Indian marks the shift from fresh air to poison gas in our political atmosphere; and our treatment of Indians, even more than our treatment of other minorities, reflects the rise and fall in our democratic faith.

  Felix S. Cohen

  Fall, Thinking, Air

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• 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

  Crazy, Nuts, Madness

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• By some estimates, income and wealth inequality are near their highest levels in the past hundred years, much higher than the average during that time span and probably higher than for much of American history before then.

  Janet Yellen

  Past, Average, Years

  Janet Yellen's Speech At the Conference on Economic Opportunity and Inequality at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston in Boston, Massachusetts, www.federalreserve.gov. October 17, 2014.

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

  Liam Neeson

  Venice, Inception, Contemporary

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• The trial of Enron chiefs Jeffrey Skilling and Ken Lay began four-and-a-half years after perpetrating -- allegedly -- the fraud that led to the second largest bankruptcy in American history. Why four-and-a-half years? Because apparently it's harder to bring Ken Lay to trial than it is to invade two countries.

  Jon Stewart

  Country, Years, Two

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• Black history isn’t a separate history. This is all of our history, this is American history, and we need to understand that. It has such an impact on kids and their values and how they view black people.

  Karyn Parsons

  Kids, Views, Impact

  "Karyn Parsons’ Mission To Share The Untold Stories Of Black History Heroes". Interview with Jessica Dickerson, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 1, 2014.

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