US History Quotes

”That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed…”

• Thomas Jefferson

• John Locke

• Thomas Paine

• James Madison

”Give me liberty or give me death!”

• Benjamin Franklin

• George Washington

• John Adams

• Patrick Henry

"A house divided against itself cannot stand.”

• Robert E. Lee

• Frederick Douglass

• Abraham Lincoln

• Jefferson Davis

"All men are created equal.” (Gettysburg Address)

• Ulysses S. Grant

• Abraham Lincoln

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Dredd Scott

”We have nothing to fear, but fear itself.” (Fireside Chats)

• Woodrow Wilson

• Harry S. Truman

• Franklin Roosevelt

• Theodore Roosevelt

”…a date that will live in infamy…” (referring to Pearl Harbor)

• Franklin Roosevelt

• Hirohito

• Adolf Hitler

• Harry S. Truman

”Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.” (Inaugural Address)

• Franklin Roosevelt

• Gerald Ford

• Harry S. Truman

• John F. Kennedy

”Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.” (near the end of the Cold War)

• George W. Bush

• George H.W. Bush

• Bill Clinton

• Ronald Reagan

”I have a dream…” (March on Washington)

• Ida B. Wells

• Martin Luther King jr.

• Booker T. Washington

• W.E.B. Du Bois

”That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” (spoken when the first American stepped on the surface of the moon)

• Neil Armstrong

• John Glenn

• Sally Ride

• Buzz Aldrin