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'The advance of the frontier has meant...a steady growth of independence on American lives." Frederick Jackson Turner Industrial Age/Gilded Age/Frontier
"The growth of a large business is merely a survival of the fittest." John D. Rockefeller Industrial Age/Gilded Age/Frontier
"You furnish the pictures and I'll furnish the war." William Randolph Hearst Imperialism
"Speak softly and carry a big stick." Theodore Roosevelt Imperialism
"I am going to make the dirt fly." Theodore Roosevelt Imperialism
"You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns, you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold." William Jennings Bryan Progressive Era
"Expose all fraud and sham, fight all public evils and abuses." Joseph Pulitizer Progressive Era
"The world must be made safe for democracy." Woodrow Wilson World War one
"The business of America is business." Calvin Coolidge The Twenties
"A chicken in every pot and two cars in every garage." Herbert Hoover The Twenties
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." Franklin D. Roosevelt Great Depression
"I pledge to you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people." Franklin Roosevelt Great Depression
"Never was so much owed by so many to so few." Winston Churchill World War Two
"Yesterday, December 7, 1941-a date which will live in infamy." Franklin D. Roosevelt World War Two
The US should support "free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or outside pressures." Harry S. Truman Cold War
"The buck stops here." Harry S. Truman Cold War
"You have the dominoes set up, you knock over the first one, and...the last one...will go over quickly." Dwight Eisenhower Cold War
"Are you now or have you ever been a member of the communist party?" HUAC (McCarthyism) Cold War
"Have you no decency, sir, at long last?" Attorney Joseph Welch to Sen. McCarthy Cold War
"We will bury you." Nikita Khrushchev Cold War
"Ich ben ein berliner." John F. Kennedy Cold War
"From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the continent." Winston Churchill Cold War
"In war there is no substitute for victory." Gen. Douglas MacArthur Cold War
"That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind." Neil Armstrong Cold War
"One of the greatest glories of democracy is the right to protest for the right." Martin Luther King, Jr. Civil Rights Movement
"I say segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever." George Wallace Civil Rights Movement
"I have a dream today"...that people will "not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their heart." Martin Luther King, Jr. Civil Rights Movement
"What we are going to start saying now is black power." Stokely Carmichael Civil Rights Movement
"I am convinced the truest act of courage...is to sacrifice ourselves for others in a totally nonviolent struggle for justice." Cesar Chavez Civil Rights Movement
"The Great Society demands an end to poverty and racial injustice." Lyndon Baines Johnson Sixties and Vietnam War
There is"light at the end of the tunnel." Gen. William Westmoreland Sixties and Vietnam War
"Peace with honor." Richard Nixon Sixties and Vietnam War
"Peace is at hand." Henry Kissinger Sixties and Vietnam War
"What is good for our country is good for General Motors, and vice versa." Charles E. Wilson Sixties and Vietnam War
"Iam not a crook." Richard Nixon Seventies, Eighties, Nineties
"I'm a Ford, not a Lincoln." Gerald Ford Seventies, Eighties, Nineties
"I thought it was a neat idea." Oliver North (Iran Contra Scandal) Seventies, Eighties, Nineties
"Are you better off now than you were four years ago?" Ronald Reagan Seventies, Eighties, Nineties
"Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall." Ronald Reagan Cold War
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