US Quotes, 2015
Published on Nov 18, 2015
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01/07 Happy New Year!
Welcome Back!
"America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something that consists of all of us."
Woodrow Wilson
What do you think of when you hear The Roaring 20s?
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01/09 Friday!
"We must have a citizenship less concerned about what the government can do for it and more anxious about what it can do for the nation."
Warren G. Harding
How would you characterize Harding's administration?
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01/13 Tuesday
"Now I am old-fashioned. A woman, I consider, should be womanly. I have no patience with the modern neurotic girl who jazzes from morning to night, smokes like a chimney, and uses language which would make a billingsgate fishwoman blush!"
Agatha Christie
What were some significant changes in the lives and role of women during the 1920s?
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01/22 Thursday
"Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by myself."
-Herbert Hoover
How did Hoover handle the crash of the stock market?
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01/26 Monday
"Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body, the producers and consumers themselves."
-Herbert Hoover
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01/26 Tuesday
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
-FDR
How does FDR calm and reassure the American people when he takes office?
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01/28 Wednesday
"The country needs and, unless I mistake it's temper, the country demands bold, persistent experimentation. It is common sense or take a method and try it; if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something."
-FDR, 1932
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01/28 Wednesday
"We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon."
-FDR
What was FDR's impact and legacy?
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"Whether films offered visions of order restored, affirmations of work-centered values, or celebrations of a culture rooted in the mythic American village, they also held out images of competing worlds that might be entered through mimicry or consumption."
-Terry A. Cooney, Balancing Acts
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02/11 Wednesday
"Good night, then...sleep to gather strength for the morning. For the morning will come. Brightly will it shine on the brave and true, kindly on all who suffer for the cause, glorious upon the tombs of heroes. Thus will shine the dawn."
Winston Churchill, 1940
What are characteristics of a totalitarian state?
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02/17 Tuesday
"There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest."
Elie Wiesel
Holocaust survivor, American Jewish novelist
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02/19 Thursday
"If we bear all this suffering and if there are still Jews left, when it is over, then Jews, instead of being doomed, will be held up as an example."
Anne Frank
What does the word holocaust mean? What was Auschwitz?
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