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"I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others."--Amelia Earhart

Footnote Page: Amelia Earhart · 13 Jan 2010 You

"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created…

Footnote Page: The Gettysburg Address · 16 Sep 2009 You

In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death.”--Anne…

Footnote Page: Anne Frank · 01 Sep 2009 You

"[We wish] that it may promote the lasting welfare of that country so dear to us all, and secure her freedom and happiness."--George Washington on the signing of the Constitution

Footnote Page: The Ratification of the Constitution of... · 25 Aug 2009 You

“It wasn’t only her voice that thrilled, with its amazing range and strength and awesome wails. To see her was to be sucked into a maelstrom of feeling that words can barely…

Footnote Page: Janis Joplin · 02 Jul 2009 You

“[Janis Joplin] perfectly expressed the feelings and yearnings of the girls of the electric generation – to be all woman, yet equal with men; to be free, yet a slave to real…

Footnote Page: Janis Joplin · 02 Jul 2009 You

Neil Armstrong's father

Footnote Page: Steven K Armstrong · 17 Jun 2009 You

"I hate to bust the cap on a woman, especially when she was sitting down, however if it wouldn't have been her, it would have been us". FRANK A. HAMER (After slaying Bonnie in…

Footnote Page: Bonnie & Clyde · 01 May 2009 You

Clyde Barrow's mother of the famous Bonnie and Clyde crime duo.

Footnote Page: Cumie Barrow · 28 Apr 2009 You

"I think this would be a good time for a beer." - Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933, upon the end of the Prohibition

Footnote Page: The Prohibition Era, 1919-1933 · 24 Mar 2009 You

The right to have a slave implies the right in some one to make the slave; that right must be equal and mutual, and this would resolve society into a state of perpetual war.…

Footnote Page: William Henry Seward · 03 Mar 2009 You

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. --Abraham Lincoln

Footnote Page: Abraham Lincoln · 27 Jan 2009 You

Could you post the pictures? This is a great story page!

Footnote Page: C.C.Camp in Falls City, Oregon · 21 Jan 2009 You

This is the famous writer and abolitiionist from the Civil War.

Footnote Page: Fredrick Douglass · 10 Jan 2009 You

Hiram Revels was the first black to serve in the U.S. Senate from 1870-1871.

Footnote Page: Hiram Revels · 10 Jan 2009 You

“Remember, remember always that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists”--Franklin D. Roosevelt

Footnote Page: A History of American Immigration · 06 Jan 2009 You

“I offer nothing more than simple facts, plain arguments, and common sense . . .”--Thomas Paine, "Common Sense"

Footnote Page: Thomas Paine · 05 Jan 2009 You

“These are the times that try men's souls: The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now,…

Footnote Page: Thomas Paine · 05 Jan 2009 You

"Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America." Inaugural Address, Washington, D.C., 1/20/53

Footnote Page: Dwight D. Eisenhower · 12 Dec 2008 You

“If I'm a star, then the people made me a star.”—Marilyn Monroe

Footnote Page: Marilyn Monroe · 12 Dec 2008 You