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Volunteers won the American Revolution.

June 6th, 1944, told the world that aggression will not stand.

Forty-eight years ago today, Ike and Monty, Churchill and FDR, Allied soldiers, sailors, marines, and airmen, heroes all, forged the greatest armada in the history of man, the D-day invasion.

America has changed dramatically in those 200 years. And yet, the essentials remain.

America is the first nation in history founded on an idea: On the unshakable certainty that all men are created equal.

Most important, perhaps, Columbus Day is a time for us to do some exploring of our own -- to study and learn from the past so that we might appreciate more fully the blessings of freedom and the principles that unite all Americans today.

History records that when Brigham Young first stood overlooking the Wasatch Front and saw Salt Lake, he uttered the now-famous words, 'This is the place.'

Without Lincoln, I don't believe we would be a whole nation today.

This anniversary celebrates what many historians consider to have been the watershed event in American conservation history.

The concepts of forced termination and excessive dependency on the Federal Government must now be relegated, once and for all, to the history books.

Never, in their view, never in this history of this country have we had more motivated, more better trained, or more fine troops, men and women, than we have today.

And so, thank you for that, for writing still-new pages in the history of America and of her Navy.

You are one of the most beloved Presidents in the history of the Republic.

History may make men, but Lech Walesa has made history.

U.S. farm exports will reach $40 billion, up $8 billion above last year—the greatest 1-year increase in history.

Never in history have so many been fed by so few.

This year our country will produce more coal than in any other year in the history of the United States.

I think history has shown that it has never worked except during a time of intense crisis.