The Oxford Dictionary of American QuotationsHugh Rawson, Margaret Miner Oxford University Press, USA, 2006 - 898 pàgines With nearly 6,000 quotations arranged historically and annotated extensively, you'll know not just who said what, but get the full story behind the quote. Follow any of the more than five hundred topics (from Abolition to Zeal) and you will get a nutshell history of what great (and not-so-great) Americans had to say about each one. Quotations are arranged chronologically in each topic, allowing the reader to trace patterns of thought over time.Fully indexed by author (including brief biographical sketches) and keyword, this is an essential reference for anyone interested in the great people and ideas of American history. |
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Abolition | 1 |
Adventure Exploration Discovery | 5 |
Advice | 9 |
Africa | 10 |
Alabama | 11 |
Alaska | 12 |
Alcohol Drinking | 13 |
Alienation | 16 |
Lawyers | 375 |
Laziness | 378 |
Leaders | 379 |
Lies | 380 |
Lincoln Abraham | 385 |
Loneliness | 387 |
Love | 388 |
Love Expressions of | 392 |
Ambition Aspiration | 17 |
Ambivalence | 18 |
American Cities | 32 |
American Revolution 17751783 | 47 |
Anger | 52 |
Animals | 53 |
Appearances | 54 |
Argentina | 55 |
Arkansas | 56 |
Army | 57 |
Art Aesthetics | 59 |
Art Architecture | 61 |
Art Dance | 63 |
Art Painting | 66 |
Art Style in Writing Expression | 69 |
Art Theater Drama Movies Magic | 70 |
Art Visual | 73 |
Art Writing | 74 |
Aspiration | 76 |
Australia | 77 |
Barriers | 79 |
Beginnings Endings | 81 |
The Bill of Rights | 82 |
Biology | 83 |
Body Looks | 86 |
Books Reading | 87 |
Bores Dullness | 89 |
Bravery | 90 |
California | 96 |
Calmness | 98 |
Capitalism Capital v Labor | 99 |
Cards | 102 |
Chance | 104 |
Character | 105 |
Charity Philanthropy | 106 |
Children | 107 |
China | 109 |
Cities | 111 |
Albany New York | 113 |
Amherst Massachusetts | 114 |
Avon New York | 115 |
Buffalo New York | 117 |
Carson City Nevada | 118 |
Cincinnati Ohio | 120 |
Cleveland Ohio | 121 |
Concord Massachusetts | 122 |
Duluth Minnesota | 123 |
Frankfort Kentucky | 124 |
Laredo Texas | 125 |
Los Angeles California | 126 |
Lubbock Texas | 127 |
Memphis Tennessee | 128 |
Muncie Indiana | 129 |
Newport Rhode Island | 130 |
Niagara Falls New York | 136 |
Nome Alaska | 137 |
Paterson New Jersey | 138 |
Philadelphia Pennsylvania | 139 |
Pittsburgh Pennsylvania | 140 |
Portland Oregon | 141 |
Rome Italy | 142 |
Santa Fe New Mexico | 143 |
Seattle Washington | 144 |
St Petersburg Russia | 145 |
Washington DC | 146 |
Weehawken New Jersey | 148 |
Civil War 18611865 | 149 |
Clothes | 155 |
Committees Conferences | 156 |
Communication | 157 |
Complaints | 158 |
Conflict | 159 |
Connecticut | 162 |
Conscience | 163 |
Conservatives | 164 |
Conversation | 170 |
Cosmology | 171 |
Craftiness | 172 |
Crime Criminals Detectives | 173 |
Crises | 177 |
Custom | 178 |
Decision | 183 |
Declaration of Independence | 184 |
Delaware | 187 |
Delay | 188 |
Democrats | 191 |
Desires | 192 |
Despair | 193 |
Desperation | 194 |
Devil the | 195 |
Differences | 197 |
Diplomacy | 198 |
Dishonesty Lies | 199 |
Divisions Barriers | 200 |
Doctors Medicine | 201 |
Doing | 202 |
Doubt | 203 |
Dreams Sleep | 204 |
Duty | 205 |
Economics | 206 |
Education | 211 |
Effort | 216 |
Emotions | 219 |
Ends Means | 220 |
England the English | 221 |
Enthusiasm Zeal | 222 |
Envy | 227 |
Equality | 233 |
Eras | 234 |
Ethics Morality Values | 235 |
Evidence | 237 |
Evil | 238 |
Excellence | 240 |
Excess | 241 |
Exercise | 243 |
Experience | 244 |
Experts | 245 |
Failings | 247 |
Faith | 248 |
Fall | 250 |
Fanaticism | 251 |
Fashion Clothes | 253 |
Fate Destiny | 255 |
Fathers | 256 |
Faults Failings | 257 |
Flag the | 259 |
Flowers | 260 |
Fools Stupidity | 263 |
Force | 264 |
Foreign Policy | 265 |
Forests | 272 |
Freedom | 273 |
Free Speech | 277 |
Free Will | 278 |
Frontier the | 280 |
Future the | 282 |
Games | 283 |
Gardens | 284 |
Genius | 285 |
Georgia | 286 |
Gettysburg Address | 287 |
Giving | 288 |
Goodness | 292 |
Government | 293 |
Grace | 298 |
Greece | 299 |
Habit Custom | 300 |
Happiness | 301 |
Harding Warren G | 303 |
Haste v Going Slow | 305 |
Haves Havenots | 306 |
Health | 307 |
Heart | 309 |
Heavens the | 310 |
Heroes | 311 |
High Position Rulers Leaders | 314 |
History | 315 |
Holidays | 318 |
Honesty | 319 |
Honor | 321 |
Hospitality | 322 |
Humans Human Nature | 323 |
Humor | 326 |
Hunger | 327 |
Idaho | 328 |
Illinois | 330 |
Illusions | 331 |
Imagination | 332 |
Indecision | 333 |
Indiana | 334 |
Indians | 335 |
Injustice | 336 |
Insults | 337 |
Intimacy Familiarity | 343 |
Iowa | 344 |
Ireland the Irish | 347 |
Judges | 348 |
July Fourth | 349 |
Justice | 351 |
Kansas | 353 |
Kentucky | 355 |
Kindness | 356 |
Knowledge Information | 357 |
Korean War 19501953 | 359 |
Labor | 360 |
Last Words | 365 |
Laughter Mirth | 369 |
Law | 370 |
Loyalty | 395 |
Luxury | 397 |
Maine | 399 |
Majorities Minorities | 401 |
Management Techniques | 403 |
Marines | 405 |
Maryland | 408 |
Massachusetts | 409 |
Mathematics | 410 |
Media | 411 |
Medicine | 414 |
Memory | 415 |
Men | 416 |
Men Women | 417 |
Mexican War 18461848 | 418 |
Mexico | 419 |
Middle Class | 421 |
Military Strategy | 423 |
Military the | 424 |
Mind Thought Understanding | 430 |
Minnesota | 433 |
Misanthropy | 434 |
Mississippi | 435 |
Mistakes | 436 |
Modern Times | 437 |
Money the Rich | 438 |
Montana | 443 |
Morality | 444 |
Nations Regions | 445 |
Brazil | 446 |
China | 447 |
Europe | 448 |
Germany | 449 |
Italy v Switzerland | 450 |
Liberia | 451 |
Scandinavia | 452 |
Spain | 453 |
Venezuela | 454 |
Nature Animals | 456 |
Nature Plants Gardens | 460 |
Nature Seas Oceans | 461 |
Nature Seasons | 462 |
Nature The Heavens the Sky | 467 |
Nature Times of Day | 469 |
Nature Trees | 471 |
Nature Weather | 472 |
Navy | 473 |
Necessity | 475 |
Nevada | 476 |
New Hampshire | 478 |
New Mexico | 479 |
Newspapers | 480 |
Night | 481 |
North Dakota | 482 |
Occult the | 483 |
Oceans | 484 |
Old Age | 485 |
Opportunity | 489 |
Oppression | 490 |
Oregon | 492 |
Pain | 493 |
Parting | 495 |
Passion | 496 |
Past the | 497 |
Patience | 498 |
Patriotism the Flag | 499 |
Patterns | 504 |
Pennsylvania | 507 |
Perception | 510 |
Photography | 511 |
Physics | 512 |
Poetry | 513 |
Politics Politicians | 523 |
Possessions | 532 |
Power | 534 |
Prairies | 536 |
Prayers Blessings | 538 |
Prejudice | 539 |
Presidency the | 541 |
Press the | 547 |
Pride Vanity | 551 |
Privacy | 552 |
Problems | 554 |
Professions | 555 |
Property | 556 |
Proverbs | 557 |
Publicity | 558 |
Questions Answers | 559 |
Quotations Proverbs | 560 |
Races Peoples | 562 |
Reality Illusions Images | 573 |
Reasons Reasonable People | 575 |
Religion | 576 |
Republicans | 581 |
Resignation | 582 |
Responsibility | 584 |
Revenge | 585 |
Revolution | 586 |
Revolutionary War | 588 |
Rich Poor Wealth Poverty | 589 |
Right | 591 |
Rights | 592 |
Roosevelt Eleanor | 593 |
Roosevelt Theodore | 594 |
Rulers | 595 |
Scandinavia | 596 |
Science Biology Physiology | 599 |
Science Geology | 600 |
Science Physics Cosmology | 601 |
Science Psychology | 604 |
Seas | 610 |
Security Safety | 611 |
Self | 612 |
SelfReliance | 614 |
Serving Ones Country | 615 |
Sex | 616 |
Ships Sailing | 618 |
Sickness | 620 |
Sin Vice Naughtiness | 622 |
Skepticism | 625 |
Sky the | 626 |
Sleep | 629 |
Socialism | 631 |
Sorrow Grief | 632 |
Soul the | 633 |
South America | 634 |
South Dakota | 635 |
South the | 636 |
Spain | 638 |
Speed | 640 |
Sports | 641 |
Spring | 649 |
Strength Toughness | 650 |
Stupidity | 651 |
Suffering Pain | 654 |
Suicide | 655 |
Summer | 656 |
Sweden | 658 |
Taxes | 659 |
Technology | 662 |
Tennessee | 663 |
Thanksgiving | 666 |
Theater | 668 |
Time | 669 |
Times | 671 |
Tolerance | 673 |
Trees | 675 |
Trust | 677 |
Truth | 678 |
Turkey | 681 |
Unhappiness | 682 |
Union the | 683 |
United States Motto | 685 |
Usefulness | 686 |
Utah | 687 |
Value Values | 688 |
Variety | 689 |
Vice Presidency the | 691 |
Vietnam War 19611975 | 692 |
Violence | 694 |
Virginia | 696 |
Virtue | 698 |
Vision Perception | 701 |
War | 702 |
War of 1812 18121814 18121815 | 708 |
War with Mexico | 709 |
Watergate | 711 |
Wealth | 713 |
West the | 714 |
West Virginia | 716 |
Whites | 717 |
Will | 719 |
Winter | 723 |
Wisdom | 724 |
Wisdom Words of | 725 |
Women | 727 |
Women Men | 732 |
Woods | 735 |
World the | 740 |
World War I 19141918 | 742 |
World War II 19391945 | 745 |
Writers Writing | 749 |
Youth | 750 |
Zeal | 752 |
Author Index | 753 |
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