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- World War II, the atomic bomb, the Cold War, made it hard for Americans to continue their optimism. — Stephen Ambrose
- War is God's way of teaching Americans geography. — Ambrose Bierce
- Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle. — George S. Patton
- Hopefully as a country, that we learn from our mistakes of the past. — Robert Matsui
- I have to say that it's very few countries that are willing to look back at its past and apologize for its act, or make amends for its act, as the United States had one. — Robert Matsui
- I was six months old at the time that I was taken, with my mother and father, from Sacramento, California, and placed in internment camps in the United States. — Robert Matsui