The twenty-six quotes are listed here:

• Your huddled masses yearning to be free…  –  Inscription on the Statue of Liberty
• They can have any color they want, as long as it’s black – Henry Ford concerning his Model-T
• We won’t come back till it’s over, over there… – Lyrics from George M. Cohen marching song
•  The war to end all wars – A hopeful sentiment after World War I
• How you gonna keep ‘em down on the farm…? – Tune lyric from World War I
• Don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing… – Count Basie jazz lyrics
• When you wish upon a star – Lyric from the movie Pinocchio
• The only thing we have to fear is fear itself… – Franklin Roosevelt’s 1933 speech
• A date which will live in infamy… – Part of F.D.R.’s 1941 declaration of war
• Regret to inform you – Salutation on official correspondence sent to military families
• Nuts!… – General Anthony McAuliffe’s response when the Germans demanded his surrender
• I am become death, shatterer of worlds – Robert Oppenheimer after witnessing the detonation of the first A-bomb
• Don’t sit under the apple tree… – Popular WWII song lyric
• Vita Meata Vegimin – From the I Love Lucy TV show
• Are you now or have you ever been – Common question during the McCarthy era
• AWOP bop aloobop ALOP BAM boom – Little Richard song lyric
• Ask not what your country can do for you… – John F. Kennedy inauguration speech
• We will bury you… – Soviet leader Nikita Krushev
• I have a dream… – Martin Luther King, 1963
• And it’s one, two, three, what are we fighting for…? – Viet Nam anti-war lyric
• One small step for man… – Neil Armstrong on the moon
• Where have all the flowers gone…? – Folk song from the early 1960s
• And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you give… – Beatles lyric
• Perestroika… – Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev’s reform policy
• May the force be with you… – Star Wars, 1977
• America is great collective act of imagination whose making never ends – Art critic Robert Hughes