Rick Warren Quotes

Without doubt, President [Barack] Obama is a great historical figure.

[Benjamin] Franklin may be a great philosopher, [John Adams] told his diary in 1779, but "as a Legislator in America he has done very little."

Bill Proxmire represents almost the last of one of America's most remarkable generations.

There's no one who I believe has ever captured the soul of America more profoundly than Abraham Lincoln has.

So Columbus said, somebody show me the sunset and somebody did and he set sail for it, And he discovered America and they put him in jail for it, And the fetters gave him welts, And they named America after somebody else.

I think that Malcolm X was the most remarkable historical figure produced by Black America in the 20th century.

America is thataway, Mr. Lincoln," laughed Davis, pointing north. "You're in Mississippi now.

Martin Luther King was never an up close and personal figure in the United States.

One great blemish in the popular mind of America and the prolific parent of an innumerable brood of evils, is Universal Distrust . . . you no sooner set up an idol firmly, than you are sure to pull it down and dash it into fragments: and this because directly you reward a benefactor, or a public servant, you distrust him, merely because he is rewarded . . . . Any man who attains a high place among you, from the President downwards, may date his downfall from that moment.

I’m like America ” he said. Stephanie swung around to look at him unnerved. “What are you talking about ” she said. “Are you off your meds ” “Our hands are dirty ” Jules said.

America was built on an attempted genocide, anyway. Guns were completely necessary.

Abraham Lincoln was interested in, in saving the Union. Well, most negroes have been tricked into thinking that Lincoln was a negro lover whose primary aim was to free them, and he died because he freed them.

The Bostonians are really, as a race, far inferior in point of anything beyond mere intellect to any other set upon the continent of North America. They are decidedly the most servile imitators of the English it is possible to conceive.

As Latinos, you want [people] to come to America - not necessarily Latinos, but [anyone who wants] to come here for a better life. That's kind of how this country was founded and the history of this country.

I’m not Thomas Jefferson. He was a pussy.

The Marshall Plan will go down in history as one of America's greatest contributions to the peace of the world.

The history of this country was made largely by people who wanted to be left alone. Those who could not thrive when left to themselves never felt at ease in America.

I believe that the flag of the Confederate States of America is a painful symbol and reminder of racial injustice and slavery which Abraham Lincoln denounced from here over 150 years ago.

These gentlemen are the moral equivalents of America's founding fathers.

We [Americans] have a historical trauma when it comes to the past relationships when it comes to Native Americans and the history of how America was created. With this film, it's nice to see that the trauma is presented from a white male that was in the Civil War and that trauma affects him in a way that still exists.

Well, let's see. There's -- of course -- in the great history of America rulings there have been rulings.

Because of what America is and what America has done, a firmer courage, a higher hope, inspires the heart of all humanity.

Harriet Tubman lived to see the harvest.

It was not necessarily the best of times in America when Catholics and Protestants were suspicious of and hated one another; but at least they were taking their beliefs seriously, and the more or less satisfactory accommodations they worked out were not simply the result of apathy about the state of their souls.

The true America is the Middle West, and Columbus discovered nothing at all except another Europe.