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American history
«Races didn't bother the Americans. They were something a lot better than any race. They were a People. They were the first self-constituted, self-declared, self-created People in the history of the world.»
Author: Archibald MacLeish
(Critic, Poet)
| Keywords:
American history, History of the world, The Americans
«In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins.»
«No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.»
Author: Richard M. Nixon
(President)
| About:
America and Americans,
Events,
History,
War
| Keywords:
American history, misunderstood, Vietnam, Vietnam War
«There is a constant in the average American imagination and taste, for which the past must be preserved and celebrated in full-scale authentic copy; a philosophy of immortality as duplication. It dominates the relation with the self, with the past, not infrequently with the present, always with History and, even, with the European tradition.»
Author: Umberto Eco
(Critic, Novelist)
| Keywords:
American history, celebrated, copy, dominates, duplication, European, full-scale, infrequently, in full, Philosophy of, preserved, scale, The European
«France, and the whole of Europe have a great culture and an amazing history. Most important thing though is that people there know how to live! In America they've forgotten all about it. I'm afraid that the American culture is a disaster.»
Author: Johnny Depp
(Actor)
| Keywords:
amazing, American, American culture, American history, culture, disaster, Europe, forgotten, France, History of Europe, In America, Their culture, The American
«Friendly cynics and fierce enemies alike often underestimate or ignore the strong thread of moral purpose which runs through the fabric of American history»
Author: Lyndon B. Johnson
(President)
| Keywords:
American history, Cynics, fabric, fierce, thread, underestimate
«There can be no real peace while one American is dying some place in the world for the rest of us. We are at war with the most dangerous enemy that has ever faced mankind in his long climb from the swamp to the stars, and it has been said if we lose that war, and in so doing lose this way of freedom of ours, history will record with the greatest astonishment that those who had the most to lose did the least to prevent its happening. . . . If we lose freedom here [in America], there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on Earth.»
Author: Ronald Reagan
(President)
| Keywords:
American history, astonishment, faced, swamp, swamps, The Swamp, world record
«I join you, therefore, in sincere congratulations that this den of the priesthood is at length broken up, and that a Protestant Popedom is no longer to disgrace the American history and character»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
America and Americans
| Keywords:
American history, den, Protestant
«I think that Richard Nixon will go down in history as a true folk hero, who struck a vital blow to the whole diseased concept of the revered image and gave the American virtue of irreverence and skepticism back to the people.»
Author: William S. Burroughs
| Keywords:
American history, diseased, folk, folk hero, go down, irreverence, Nixon, revered, revering, Richard, Richard Nixon, skepticism, strike back