US History Quotes

”We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”

• Thomas Jefferson

• John Locke

• Thomas Paine

• James Madison

”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

”That whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government…”

• 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

"...of the people, by the people, and for the people.”

(Gettysburg Address)

• Robert E. Lee

• Andrew Johnson

• Frederick Douglass

• Abraham Lincoln

…with malice towards none, with charity for all…to bind up the nation’s wounds…” (talking about Reconstruction)

• Robert E. Lee

• Abraham Lincoln

• Rutherford B. Hayes

• Samule Tilden

”…make the world safe for democracy.”(as America entered WWI)

• Woodrow Wilson

• Theodore Roosevelt

• Franklin Roosevelt

• William Howard Taft

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

• Woodrow Wilson

• Harry S. Truman

• Franklin Roosevelt

• Theodore Roosevelt