Quotes of: American-history Keyword

The most interesting statistic, stunning statistic that came out of my research was that in 1942, as this war production effort is going on, the number of Americans killed or injured in war-related industries surpassed the number of Americans in unif...

Arthur L. Herman

Most Americans are unaware that Thomas Jefferson was the first American president to go to war against radical Islam. Jefferson was very concerned with Islam's war-like doctrine and its inability to separate mosque and state.

Brad Thor

Watergate enabled the Democrats to cut off all aid to South Vietnam and ensure American defeat in a war their party entered and had effectively lost, before Nixon salvaged a non-Communist South Vietnam while effecting a complete American withdrawal.

Conrad Black

Americans worry that Afghanistan has become a petri dish in which the germs of Islamic fanaticism are replicating - soon Afghans will be hijacking American planes and bombing embassies everywhere. And their fears are not necessarily unfounded. The Ta...

William T. Vollmann

Americanism demands loyalty to the teacher and respect for his lesson.

Bainbridge Colby

The very time I thought I was lost, my dungeon shook and my chains fell off.

African-American

If you are going to die you will die in the dark even if you have been in the candle business.

South American

American GI Cook: Up bright and early, General? Uh, breakfast? Patton: Am I to understand that my officers have already finished eating? American GI Cook: Uh, well, we're open from six to eight. Most of the men are just coming in now. [Indicates two ...

Patton

Horror is the natural reaction to the last 5,000 years of history.

Cosmic Trigger 2: Down to Earth

Eurocentrism is quite simply the colonizer's model of the world.

The Colonizer's Model of the World: Geographical Diffusionism and Eurocentric History

She was a terrible mother, there was no doubt about it, but she didn't even have the strength to feel guilty.

Case Histories

We are all time voyagers leaving history in our wake, pioneering into the future.

Chasing Daylight: Seize the Power of Every Moment

Most civilizations had more fiction than they did real history.

The Children of the Sky

By its very nature, history is always a one-sided account.

The Da Vinci Code

Let go of your past. Start making history!

Dreams to Action Trailblazer's Guide

Communism is the riddle of history solved, and it knows itself to be this solution.

Economic & Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844/The Communist Manifesto

Revenge! The stupidest motive on earth, just an attempt to change history.

The Fireman's Fair

Together, "Light and Knowledge" are Inanimate, Intangible, and Inseparable.

Great Ship of Knowledge: Learning Earth's Deathly History

To us investigators, the concept 'soul' is irrelevant and a matter for laughter.

History and Root of the Principle of the Conservation of Energy

No moment is ever isolated With history elsewhere, drilling its stitches.

Bone Fires: New and Selected Poems

We are at a punctuation point in human history where the Industrial Age and institutions have finally come to their logical conclusion. They have essentially run out of gas.

Don Tapscott