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“Remember, remember always that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists”--Franklin D. Roosevelt

Added to A History of American Immigration - Footnote Page

12 hours ago
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“I offer nothing more than simple facts, plain arguments, and common sense . . .”--Thomas Paine, "Common Sense"

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1 day ago
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“These are the times that try men's souls: The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now,…

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1 day ago
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"Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America." Inaugural Address, Washington, D.C., 1/20/53

Added to Dwight D. Eisenhower - Footnote Page

12 Dec 2008
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“If I'm a star, then the people made me a star.”—Marilyn Monroe

Added to Marilyn Monroe - Footnote Page

12 Dec 2008
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“Some people tap their feet, some people snap their fingers, and some people sway back and forth. I just sorta do ‘em all together, I guess.” -Elvis in 1956, talking about…

Added to Elvis Presley - Footnote Page

11 Dec 2008
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I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of…

Added to Martin Luther King Jr. - Footnote Page

11 Dec 2008
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“A date which will live in infamy”—Franklin D. Roosevelt

Added to Attack on Pearl Harbor - Footnote Page

11 Dec 2008
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“We came down here for wind and sand, and we have got them.” —Orville Wright, about Kitty Hawk

Added to Wright Brothers Fly Plane at Kitty Hawk, NC - Footnote Page

11 Dec 2008
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"Korea is the Greece of the Far East. If we are tough enough now, if we stand up to them like we did in Greece three years ago, they won't take any next steps…There's no telling…

Added to Korean War - Footnote Page

11 Dec 2008
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"A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure permanently half-slave and half-free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved - I do not…

Added to Lincoln-Douglas Debates - Footnote Page

11 Dec 2008
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No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now. --Richard Nixon, New York Times, March 28, 1985

Added to Vietnam War - Footnote Page

11 Dec 2008
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Wait a minute, wait a minute, you ain’t heard nothin’ yet! Wait a minute. I tell ya! You ain’t heard nothin’!—Jack Robin, First words spoken in the motion picture

Added to The Jazz Singer - Footnote Page

11 Dec 2008
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"And then the dispossessed were drawn west- from Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico; from Nevada and Arkansas, families, tribes, dusted out, tractored out. Car-loads, caravans,…

Added to The Great Depression - Footnote Page

11 Dec 2008
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“I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people.” —President Franklin D. Roosevelt

Added to FDR's New Deal for America - Footnote Page

11 Dec 2008
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“Nunna daul Isunyi”—Cherokee for “the Trail Where They Cried”

Added to The Cherokee Trail of Tears - Footnote Page

11 Dec 2008
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"Cupidity has fastened its eye upon our lands and our homes and is seeking by force and by every variety of oppression and wrong to expel us from our lands and our homes and to…

Added to The Cherokee Trail of Tears - Footnote Page

11 Dec 2008
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We are the free born sons of America. The citizens of the only republic now existing in the world. And the only people on earth who possess rights, liberties, and property which…

Added to The War of 1812 - Footnote Page

11 Dec 2008
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“Remember the “Maine”, To hell with Spain!” —battle cry for the Spanish-American War

Added to Spanish-American War - Footnote Page

11 Dec 2008
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I think it worthy of consideration, and that the wild lands of the country should be distributed so that every man should have the means and opportunity of benefiting his…

Added to The Homestead Act, 1862 - Footnote Page

10 Dec 2008

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