American Hero Collection

Famous quotes containing the words american, hero and/or collection:

    “One must always be aware, to notice—even though the cost of noticing is to become responsible.”
    —Thylias Moss, African American poet. As quoted in the Wall Street Journal (May 12, 1994)

    “What a hero Tom was become now! He did not go skipping and prancing, but moved with a dignified swagger as became a pirate who felt that the public eye was on him.”
    —Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

    “Only the history of free peoples is worth our attention; the history of men under a despotism is merely a collection of anecdotes.”
    —Sébastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort (1741–1794)