The American Revolution and Declaration of Independence, it has often been argued, were fueled by the most radical of all American political ideas.
I certainly don't think that the heirs of the American Revolution were a particularly noble class.
Despite a certain amount of rhetoric, such as 'the second American Revolution,' there is a fair consensus about which events in the affairs of a people can rightly be called revolutions. It is also clear that such revolutions are proper objects of study for the historian.
Would the Protestant Reformation have happened without the printing press? Would the American Revolution have happened without pamphlets? Probably not. But neither printing presses nor pamphlets were the heroes of reform and revolution.
You get racism crossing the street; it's in the very fabric of American society.
The devastating punch we took on September 11th still reverberates throughout American society.
I think the O.J. Simpson trial was a revelation about the ongoing patterns of racial difference in American society.
American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.
We should understand the impact that Malcolm had on the whole of American society.
American society loves to prop people up and then take them down.
American society is still puritanical.
American Society for Psychical Research Journals were all around the house when I was a kid.
Roadside bombs that Iran sent to Iraq to blow up over 500 American soldiers cost a lot less than $1.7 billion.
I've never been embedded with American soldiers or British soldiers or Iraqi soldiers or any other.
Like the American soldiers who went before them, they are putting their lives on the line to protect ours.
The spirit of graft and of lawlessness is the American spirit.
It's in the American spirit to take advantage of an opportunity.
The American taxpayer should not be treated more shabbily than debtors from other nations and we should be encouraging other nations to help rebuild Iraq's economy.
How about 'anvil babies' - because that is what anchor babies are around the necks of the American taxpayer.
The Palestinian Authority gets money from the American taxpayer.
