We wonder if we will be the first generation in American history to leave our children with fewer opportunities and a less prosperous nation than the one we inherited.
Black history is American history.
Throughout human history the American Idea has done more to help the poor than any other economic system ever designed.
In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins.
I sent American troops to Iraq to make its people free not to make them American. Iraqis will write their own history and find their own way.
Without question the Red Ryder BB gun is the most important gun in the history of American weaponry.
The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander to do.
Americans are rising to the tasks of history and they expect the same of us.
No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then and it is misremembered now.
In known history nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.
It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties established in our Constitution to everyone in America.
I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history.
American history is longer larger more various more beautiful and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
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.
Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.
The real 1960s began on the afternoon of November 22 1963. It came to seem that Kennedy's murder opened some malign trap door in American culture and the wild bats flapped out.
I haven't in the 23 years that I have been in the uniformed services of the United States of America ever violated an order - not one.