Quotes About American

The important thing to understand about American history, wrote Mr. Ibis, in his leather-bound journal, is that it is fictional, a charcoal-sketched simplicity for the children, or the easily bored.

Without question, the Red Ryder BB gun is the most important gun in the history of American weaponry.

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

If you look at the history of the American capital market, there's probably no innovation more important than the idea of generally accepted accountancy principles.

Genealogy of American Finance is a treasure trove of information on American banking and its history, in an unusual -- and unusually useful -- format.

Early American speeches, from Washington's to Patrick Henry's, have been detheologized in history textbooks. No one has called it censorship.

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

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

It's funny, when you look back in history books or American cookery books, one of the reasons that the quinces and cranberries are used so often is because of their natural jelling properties.

The myth that the founding of American Republic was based on the philosophy of John Locke could only have been maintained, because the history of Leibniz's influence was suppressed.

If I go down in for anything in history, I would like to be known as the person who convinced the American people that catfish is one of the finest eating fishes in the world.

Through American history, we have had populist movements that often, often, often have this ugly racial element. But, often, there are warning signs of some deeper social and economic problem.

The American people are not cowardly. But, living in prosperous isolation, they have been the spoiled children of modern history.

In reality, American girls are among the most outspoken, ambitious, successful girls in the history of the human race.

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

Nowadays, with history not being taught anymore in American public schools, self-esteem is taking its place.

I wanted to be what my high-school civics and history teacher thought of as a good American. That automatically involved taking an interest in government.

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

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.

I loved history, particularly of the British, American and Old Testament kind.

More than any other figure in our history [Tomas] Jefferson is responsible for the idea of American exceptionalism.

The White House used to belong to the American people. At least that's what I learned from history books and from covering every president starting with John F. Kennedy.

I don't think I came out of anybody. I think I developed out of the influences I described in My Dark Places. American history, L.A. of the 1950s. I'm comfortable with that.

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.