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| There is hardly a political question in the United States which does not sooner or later turn into a judicial one. Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes |
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| The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending at all hazards; and it is our duty to defend them against all attacks ... It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is, if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and designing men. Samuel Adams Quotes |
| In the United States today, we have more than our share of nattering nabobs of negativism. Spiro T. Agnew Quotes |
| The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It’s over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam. J. G. Ballard Quotes |
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| In America, if you put your mind to it you can have anything you want. You just can't have everything you want. Bernard Baruch Quotes |
| Here in the U.S., culture is not that delicious panacea which we Europeans consume in a sacramental mental space and which has its own special columns in the newspapers—and in people’s minds. Culture is space, speed, cinema, technology. This culture is authentic, if anything can be said to be authentic. Jean Baudrillard Quotes |
| In America there are two classes of travel: first class and with childen. Robert Benchley Quotes |
| "For a nation which has an almost evil reputation for bustle, bustle, bustle, and rush, rush, rush, we spend an enormous amount of time standing around in line in front of windows, just waiting." Robert Benchley Quotes |
| The spirit is at home, if not entirely satisfied, in America. Allan Bloom Quotes |
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| Americans are far more remarkable than we give ourselves credit for. We've been so busy damning ourselves for years. We've done it all, and yet we don't take credit for it. Ray Bradbury Quotes |
| America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered. Louis D. Brandeis Quotes |
| Americans are just beginning to regard food the way the French always have. Dinner is not what you do in the evening before something else. Dinner is the evening. Art Buchwald Quotes |
| The story of America is the story of expanding liberty: an ever-widening circle, constantly growing to reach further and include more. Our nation's founding commitment is still our deepest commitment: In our world, and here at home, we will extend the frontiers of freedom. George W. Bush Quotes |
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| This mesa plain had an appearance of great antiquity, and of incompleteness; as if, with all the materials for world-making assembled, the Creator had desisted, gone away and left everything on the point of being brought together, on the eve of being arranged into mountain, plain, plateau. The country was still waiting to be made into a landscape. Willa Cather Quotes |
| "The British have been more up for it than the Americans were, particularly with respect to nudity in the show. In Europe there are adverts that show the breasts, so people are less frightened of that aspect of the show. Americans can withstand incredible violence on TV shows - which, as I come from England and Canada, I find difficult to stomach - but they are more puritanical when it comes to nudity on screen." Kim Cattrall Quotes |
| “This is free ground. All the way from here to the Pacific Ocean. No man has to bow. No man born to royalty. Here we judge you by what you do, not by what your father was. Here you can be something. Here’s a place to build a home. . . It’s the idea that we all have value, you and me . . .” Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain Quotes |
| It's fairly obvious that American education is a cultural flop. Americans are not a well-educated people culturally, and their vocational education often has to be learned all over again after they leave school and college. On the other hand, they have open quick minds and if their education has little sharp positive value, it has not the stultifying effects of a more rigid training. Raymond Chandler Quotes |
| Three quarters of the American population literally believe in religious miracles. The numbers who believe in the devil, in resurrection, in God doing this and that -- it's astonishing. These numbers aren't duplicated anywhere else in the industrial world. You'd have to maybe go to mosques in Iran or do a poll among old ladies in Sicily to get numbers like this. Yet this is the American population. Noam Chomsky Quotes |
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| You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else. Sir Winston Churchill Quotes |
| America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still. e. e. (Edward Estlin) cummings Quotes |
| The people of the United States, perhaps more than any other nation in history, love to abase themselves and proclaim their unworthiness, and seem to find refreshment in doing so... That is a dark frivolity, but still frivolity. Robertson Davies Quotes |
| "The American is a new man, who acts upon new principles; he must therefore entertain new ideas, and form new opinions. . . . Here individuals of all nations are melted into a new race of men, whose labours and posterity will one day cause great changes in the world. . . . An [immigrant] when he first arrives . . . no sooner breathes our air than he forms new schemes, and embarks in designs he never would have thought of in his own country. . . . He begins to feel the effects of a sort of resurrection; hitherto he had not lived, but simply vegetated; he now feels himself a man . . . Judge what an alteration there must arise in the mind and thoughts of this man; . . . his heart involuntarily swells and glows; this first swell inspires him with those new thoughts which constitute an American. " Hector St. John de Crevecoeur Quotes |
| "The main village, which includes the Railroad station, is built around a village green or informal park. In the park will be benches, a bandstand, drinking fountain, trees, and shrubs. It will be a place for people to sit and rest; mothers and grandmothers can watch over small children at play. I want it to be very relaxing, cool, and inviting. Around the park will be built the town. At one end will be the Railroad Station; at the other end, the Town Hall. The Hall will be built to represent a Town Hall, but actually we will use it as our administration building. It will be the headquarters of the entire project. Adjoining the Town hall will be the Fire and Police Stations. The Fire Station will contain practical fire apparatus, scaled down. The police station will also be put to practical use. Here the visitors will report all violations, lost articles, lost kids, etc. In it we could have a little jail where the kids could look in. We might even have characters in it." Walt Disney Quotes |
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| "The standardized American is largely a myth created not least by Americans themselves." Irwin Edman Quotes |
| "There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence and energy of her citizens cannot cure." Dwight D Eisenhower Quotes |
| America is woven of many strands. I would recognize them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many. This is not prophecy, but description. Ralph Ellison Quotes |
| America is so vast that almost everything said about it is likely to be true, and the opposite is probably equally true. James T. Farrell Quotes |
| "When I compare our high schools to what I see when I'm traveling abroad, I am terrified for our work force of tomorrow. In math and science, our fourth graders are among the top students in the world. By eighth grade, they're in the middle of the pack. By 12th grade, U.S. students are scoring near the bottom of all industrialized nations. . . . The percentage of a population with a college degree is important, but so are sheer numbers. In 2001, India graduated almost a million more students from college than the United States did. China graduates twice as many students with bachelor's degrees as the U.S., and they have six times as many graduates majoring in engineering. In the international competition to have the biggest and best supply of knowledge workers, America is falling behind." Thomas L. Friedman Quotes |
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| I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own. Margaret Fuller Quotes |
| Most people are looking for security, a nice, safe, prosperous future. And there's nothing wrong with that. It's called the American Dream. Lee Iacocca Quotes |
| America is not like a blanket: one piece of unbroken cloth, the same color, the same texture, the same size. America is more like a quilt: many patches, many pieces, many colors, many sizes, all woven and held together by a common thread. Jesse Jackson Quotes |
| Growing up female in America. What a liability! You grew up with your ears full of cosmetic ads, love songs, advice columns, whoreoscopes, Hollywood gossip, and moral dilemmas on the level of TV soap operas. Erica Jong Quotes |
| Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans -- born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today at home and around the world. John Fitzgerald Kennedy Quotes |
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| "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to be free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" Emma Lazarus Quotes |
| Had the King of Spain employed the hands of his people, and his Spanish iron so, he had brought to light but little of that treasure that lay so long hid in the dark entrails of America. John Locke Quotes |
| There are those who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is the American Dream. Archibald MacLeish Quotes |
| In America all too few blows are struck into flesh. We kill the spirit here, we are experts at that. We use psychic bullets and kill each other cell by cell. Norman Mailer Quotes |
| Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner, unless you eat some of what's on that plate. Being here in America doesn't make you an American. Being born here in America doesn't make you an American. Malcolm X Quotes |
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| The Americans who are the most efficient people on earth...have invented so wide a range of pithy and hackneyed phrases that they can carry on a...conversation without giving a moment's reflection to what they are saying and so leave their minds free to consider more important matters of big business and fornication. W. Somerset Maugham Quotes |
| October is a fine and dangerous season in America...a wonderful time to begin anything at all. You go to college, and every course in the catalogue looks wonderful. Thomas Merton Quotes |
| "We create an environment where it is alright to hate, to steal, to cheat, and to lie if we dress it up with symbols of respectability, dignity and love." Whitney Moore, Jr. Quotes |
| There is one unmistakable lesson in American history: A community that allows a large number of young men to grow up in broken families, dominated by women, never acquiring any stable relationship to male authority, never acquiring any set of rational expectations about the future — that community asks for and gets chaos... And it is richly deserved. Daniel Patrick Moynihan Quotes |
| "You see for me, America is an idea. It is a stage for transformation. I felt when I came to Iowa City from Calcutta that suddenly I could be a new person . . . What America offers me is romanticism and hope . . . Suddenly, I found myself in a country where–theoretically, anyway–merit counts, where I could choose to discard that part of my history that I want, and invent a whole new history for myself. It's that capacity to dream and then try to pull it off, if you can." Bharati Mukeriee Quotes |
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| "If there is a country in the world where concord, according to common calculation, would be least expected, it is America. Made up as it is of people from different nations, accustomed to different forms and habits of government, speaking different languages, and more different in their modes of worship, it would appear that the union of such a people was impracticable; but by the simple operation of constructing government on the principles of society and the rights of man, every difficulty retires, and all the parts are brought into cordial unison. There the poor are not oppressed, the rich are not privileged. Industry is not mortified by the splendid extravagance of a court rioting at its expense. Their taxes are few, because their government is just: and as there is nothing to render them wretched, there is nothing to engender riots and tumults." Thomas Paine Quotes |
| "The American Dream [is] one of the greatest ideas in the history of human achievement . . . It thrives today in an age when its core components of freedom and opportunity are open to more Americans than ever before. It holds a real, identifiable place in the American heart and mind, and it informs the aspirations of everyone from farmers to software developers, from detectives to bankers, from soldiers to social workers . . . It defines us as a people, even as we add to its meaning with each new chapter in our national experience and our individual actions." Dan Rather Quotes |
| "America is not only big and rich, it is mysterious; and its capacity for the humorous or ironical concealment of its interests matches that of the legendary inscrutable Chinese." David Riesman Quotes |
| The one being abhorrent to the powers above the earth and under them is the hyphenated American—the “German-American,” the “Irish-American," or the "native-American." Be Americans, pure and simple! If you don't act on the theory that every man who in good faith assumes the duties and responsibilities of an American citizen in a spirit of true Americanism is an American, and is to be treated as such, ...you are yourselves unfit to take part in managing our government and you are bound to make a failure if you try to better the condition of our cities. Theodore Roosevelt Quotes |
| There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all. This is just as true of the man who puts “native” before the hyphen as of the man who puts German or Irish or English or French before the hyphen. Americanism is a matter of the spirit and of the soul. Our allegiance must be purely to the United States. We must unsparingly condemn any man who holds any other allegiance. But if he is heartily and singly loyal to this Republic, then no matter where he was born, he is just as good an American as any one else. The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English-Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian-Americans, or Italian-Americans, each preserving its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans of that nationality than with the other citizens of the American Republic. The men who do not become Americans and nothing else are hyphenated Americans; and there ought to be no room for them in this country. The man who calls himself an American citizen and who yet shows by his actions that he is primarily the citizen of a foreign land, plays a thoroughly mischievous part in the life of our body politic. He has no place here; and the sooner he returns to the land to which he feels his real heart-allegiance, the better it will be for every good American. Theodore Roosevelt Quotes |
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| "England and America are two countries separated by the same language." George Bernard Shaw Quotes |
| America is like a healthy body and its resistance is threefold: its patriotism, its morality and its spiritual life. If we can undermine these three areas, America will collapse from within. Josef Stalin Quotes |
| In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. That is what makes America what it is. Gertrude Stein Quotes |
| The polls...indicate that Nixon will get a comfortable majority of the youth vote. And that he might carry all fifty states....This may be the year when we finally come face to face with ourselves -- that we really are just a nation of...used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns, and no qualms at all about killing anyone else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable. Hunter S. Thompson Quotes |
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| Old elephants limp off to the hills to die; old Americans go out to the highway and drive themselves to death with huge cars. Hunter S. Thompson Quotes |
| America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair. Arnold J. Toynbee Quotes |
| "The name of American, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of Patriotism.... It should be the highest ambition of every American to extend his views beyond himself, and to bear in mind that his conduct will not only affect himself, his country, and his immediate posterity; but that its influence may be co-extensive with the world, and stamp political happiness or misery on ages yet unborn." George Washington Quotes |
| "Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America -- that we are fixed and certain only when we are in movement." Thomas Wolfe Quotes |
| The three great American vices seem to be efficiency, punctuality, and the desire for achievement and success. They are the things that make the Americans so unhappy and so nervous. Lin Yutang Quotes |
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| "America is God’s Crucible, the great Melting Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and reforming! Here you stand, good folk, think I, when I see them at Ellis Island, here you stand in your fifty groups with your fifty languages and histories . . . into the crucible with you all! God is making the American . . . the real American has not yet arrived. He is only in the crucible, I tell you—he will be the fusion of all the races." Israel Zangwill Quotes |
| In the United States the majority undertakes to supply a multitude of ready-made opinions for the use of individuals, who are thus relieved from the necessity of forming opinions of their own. Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes |
| The surface of American Society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through. Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes |
| America - a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose. Herbert Hoover Quotes |
| Our American values are not luxuries but necessities, not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. Our common vision of a free and just society is our greatest source of cohesion at home and strength abroad, greater than the bounty of our material blessings. Jimmy Carter Quotes |
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| In a country as big as the United States, you can find fifty examples of anything. Jeffery F. Chamberlain Quotes |
| This is the story of America. Everybody's doing what they think they're supposed to do. Jack Kerouac Quotes |
| I'm not going to quit. Why should I quit? This country is worth fighting for. Author Unknown Quotes |
| By heritage and by choice, the United States of America will make that stand. George W. Bush Quotes |
| America will never run... And we will always be grateful that liberty has found such brave defenders. George W. Bush Quotes |
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| What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them. Henry Ford II Quotes |
| When American(s) ask for the cooperation of (their) fellow citizens, it is seldom refused; and I have often seen it afforded spontaneously and with great good will. Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes |
| America...just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable. Hunter S. Thompson Quotes |
| England and America are two countries separated by a common language. George Bernard Shaw Quotes |
| America is a young country with an old mentality. George Santayana Quotes |
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| America has never been an empire. We may be the only great power in history that had the chance, and refused – preferring greatness to power and justice to glory. George W. Bush Quotes |
| America has never been united by blood or birth or soil. We are bound by ideals that move us beyond our backgrounds, lift us above our interests and teach us what it means to be citizens. George W. Bush Quotes |
| There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence and energy of her citizens cannot cure. Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes |
| The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced. Frank Zappa Quotes |
| America is therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the World's History shall reveal itself. Georg W. Hegel Quotes |
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| You give me a credit to which I have no claim in calling me 'the writer of the Constitution of the United States.' This was not, like the fabled Goddess of Wisdom, the offspring of a single brain. It ought to be regarded as the work of many heads and many hands. James Madison Quotes |
| In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them. Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes |
| America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole. Bobcat Goldthwaite Quotes |
| There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America. Bill Clinton Quotes |
| There's the country of America, which you have to defend, but there's also the idea of America. America is more than just a country, it's an idea. An idea that's supposed to be contagious. Bono Quotes |
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| I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the crimson light of a rising sun fresh from the burning, creative hand of God. I see great days ahead, great days possible to men and women of will and vision. Carl Sandburg Quotes |
| The trouble with America is that there are far too many wide-open spaces surrounded by teeth. Charles Luckman Quotes |
| America is the greatest, freest and most decent society in existence. It is an Oasis of goodness in a desert of cynicism and barbarism. This country, once an experiment unique in the world, is now the last best hope for the world. Dinesh D'Souza Quotes |
| Just what is it that America stands for? If she stands for one thing more than another it is for the sovereignty of self-governing people. Woodrow Wilson Quotes |
| In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes. Adlai Stevenson Quotes |
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| America's greatest strength, and its greatest weakness, is our belief in second chances, our belief that we can always start over, that things can be made better. Anthony Walton Quotes |
| There is a New America every morning when we wake up. It is upon us whether we will it or not. Adlai Stevenson Quotes |
| America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair. Arnold Toynbee Quotes |
| America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses. Woodrow Wilson Quotes |
| The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people. Walt Whitman Quotes |
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| Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people. Walt Whitman Quotes |
| Intellectually, I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country. Sinclair Lewis Quotes |
| I just want to say this. I want to say it gently but I want to say it firmly: There is a tendency for the world to say to America, "the big problems of the world are yours, you go and sort them out," and then to worry when America wants to sort them out. Tony Blair Quotes |
| America is a mistake, a giant mistake. Sigmund Freud Quotes |
| I don't measure America by its achievement but by its potential. Shirley Chisholm Quotes |
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| All great change in America begins at the dinner table. Ronald Reagan Quotes |
| Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected. Oscar Wilde Quotes |
| America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up. Oscar Wilde Quotes |
| America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. Oscar Wilde Quotes |
| Americans are so enamored of equality, they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom. Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes |
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| It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it. Mark Twain Quotes |
| The Americans combine the notions of Christianity and of liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive the one without the other. Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes |
| What a pity, when Christopher Colombus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it. Margot Asquith Quotes |
| Europe will never be like America. Europe is a product of history. America is a product of philosophy. Margaret Thatcher Quotes |
| Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy. Margaret Thatcher Quotes |
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| America is not merely a nation but a nation of nations. Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes |
| America is a country that doesn't know where it is going but is determined to set a speed record getting there. Laurence J. Peter Quotes |
| The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children. King Edward VIII Quotes |
| There are three social classes in America: upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class. Judith Martin Quotes |
| America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy. John Updike Quotes |
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| I believe America's best days are ahead of us because I believe that the future belongs to freedom, not to fear. John Kerry Quotes |
| I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth. John Adams Quotes |
| It was by the sober sense of our citizens that we were safely and steadily conducted from monarchy to republicanism, and it is by the same agency alone we can be kept from falling back. Thomas Jefferson Quotes |
| My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man. John F. Kennedy Quotes |
| To those new States whom we welcome to the ranks of the free, we pledge our word that one form of colonial control shall not have passed away merely to be replaced by a far more iron tyranny. John F. Kennedy Quotes |
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| Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty. John F. Kennedy Quotes |
| Born often under another sky, placed in the middle of an always moving scene, himself driven by the irresistible torrent which draws all about him, the American has no time to tie himself to anything, he grows accustomed only to change, and ends by regarding it as the natural state of man. He feels the need of it, more he loves it; for the instability; instead of meaning disaster to him, seems to give birth only to miracles all about him. Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes |
| The whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance, a revolutionary crisis, or a battle. Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes |
| The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands. George W. Bush Quotes |
| When you stand for your liberty, we will stand with you. George W. Bush Quotes |
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| The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation. Woodrow Wilson Quotes |
| Let America realize that self-scrutiny is not treason. Self-examination is not disloyalty. Richard Cardinal Cushing Quotes |
| One characteristic of Americans is that they have no tolerance at all of anybody putting up with anything. We believe that whatever is going wrong ought to be fixed. Margaret Mead Quotes |
| Americans think of themselves collectively as a huge rescue squad on twenty-four-hour call to any spot on the globe where dispute and conflict may erupt. Eldridge Cleaver Quotes |
| We are quite rich enough to defend ourselves, whatever the cost. We must now learn that we are quite rich enough to educate ourselves as we need to be educated. Walter Lippmann Quotes |
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| We're Americans - with a capital A! And do you know what that means? Do you? It means that our forefathers were kicked out of every decent country in the world. From the movie Quotes |
| I love America. It's Americans I can't stand. Attributed to both Charles Shultz and Bi Quotes |
| Americans always try to do the right thing after they've tried everything else. Winston Churchill Quotes |
| America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success. Sigmund Freud Quotes |
| In America, with all its evils and faults, you can still reach through the forest and see the sun. But we do not know yet whether the sun is rising or setting for our country. Dick Gregory, 1964 Quotes |
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| The surface of American Society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colors breaking through. Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes |
| Every time Europe looks across the Atlantic to see the American Eagle, it observes only the rear end of an ostrich. H.G. Wells Quotes |
| I feel that I am a citizen of the American dream and that the revolutionary struggle of which I am a part is a struggle against the American nightmare. Eldridge Cleaver Quotes |
| America is the best half-educated country in the world. Nicholas Murray Butler Quotes |
| He only salutes the flag with one finger. Unknown Quotes |
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| [T]he American is a gentle guy; but don't pressure him; if you do he turns toad and squirts poison. Martin H. Fischer Quotes |
| America is just the country that shows how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society. Peter Kroptkin, speech, 1891 Quotes |
| If you surveyed a hundred typical middle-aged Americans, I bet you'd find that only two of them could tell you their blood types, but every last one of them would know the theme song from The Beverly Hillbillies. Dave Barry Quotes |
America! half-brother of the world!
With something good and bad of every land.
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| You have to be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination. Charles De Gaulle Quotes |
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| It has been an unchallengeable American doctrine that cranberry sauce, a Pink goo with overtones of sugared tomatoes, is a delectable necessity of the Thanksgiving board and that turkey is uneatable without it.... There are some things in every country that you must be born to endure; and another hundred years of general satisfaction with Americans and America could not reconcile this expatriate to cranberry sauce, peanut butter, and drum majorettes. Alistair Cooke Quotes |
| Being an American is a spectator sport. Brock Fiant Quotes |
| The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure. Thomas Jefferson Quotes |
| The American experiment is the most tremendous and far reaching engine of social change which has ever either blessed or cursed mankind. Charles Francis Adams Quotes |
| There is a malaise that exists in your land - what appears to many as the sudden and tragic disappearance of the American dream which, in some ways, has turned to nightmare. J.J. Greene Quotes |
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| America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still. e.e. cummings Quotes |
| America is a great big heart attack. Carrie Latet Quotes |
| I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort. If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it. Henry James Quotes |
| The fact is that Americans are not a thoughtful people; they are too busy to stop and question their values. William Ralph Quotes |
| They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they kept only one; they promised to take our land, and they did. Red Cloud Quotes |
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| ...a "land of the free" that struggles under the incredible burden of limitless taxes and laws; the home of the "brave" who stay silent to keep their jobs and avoid scrutiny by the IRS or the police. Fred Woodworth Quotes |
| I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves. John Wayne Quotes |
| States!... Go put your creed into your deed. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
| My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth. Abraham Lincoln Quotes |
Oh Beautiful for smoggy skies, insecticided grain,
For strip-mined mountain's majesty above the asphalt plain.
America, America, man sheds his waste on thee,
And hides the pines with billboard signs, from sea to oily sea.
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| What this country needs is more free speech worth listening to. Hansell B. Duckett Quotes |
| We have the Bill of Rights. What we need is a Bill of Responsibilities. Bill Maher Quotes |
| It is a pity that instead of the Pilgrim Fathers landing on Plymouth Rock, Plymouth Rock had not landed on the Pilgrim Fathers. Chauncey Depew, at an 1881 New England S Quotes |
| America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair. Arnold Toynbee Quotes |
| I pledge allegiance to the earth and to the flora, fauna and human life that it supports, one planet indivisible, with safe air, water & soil, economic justice, equal rights and peace for all. Author Unknown Quotes |
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| I just don't know why they're shooting at us. All we want to do is bring them democracy and white bread. Transplant the American dream. Freedom. Achievement. Hyperacidity. Affluence. Flatulence. Technology. Tension. The inalienable right to an early coronary sitting at your desk while plotting to stab your boss in the back. Hawkeye Quotes |
| Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so. Gore Vidal Quotes |
| America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable. Hunter S. Thompson Quotes |
| We need a type of patriotism that recognizes the virtues of those who are opposed to us. We must get away from the idea that America is to be the leader of the world in everything. She can lead in some things. The old "manifest destiny" idea ought to be modified so that each nation has the manifest destiny to do the best it can - and that without cant, without the assumption of self-righteousness and with a desire to learn to the uttermost from other nations. Francis John McConnell Quotes |
| No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public. H.L. Mencken Quotes |
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| Americans like fat books and thin women. Russell Baker Quotes |
| Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America - that we are fixed and certain only when we are in movement. Thomas Wolfe Quotes |
| I bet after seeing us, George Washington would sue us for calling him "father." Will Rogers Quotes |
| Here we write well when we expose frauds and hypocrites. We are great at counting warts and blemishes and weighting feet of clay. In expressing love, we belong among the underdeveloped countries. Saul Bellow Quotes |
| America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense... human rights invented America. Jimmy Carter Quotes |
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| What the American public doesn't know is what makes them the American public. From the movie Quotes |
| There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong. G.K. Chesterton Quotes |
| The metaphor of the melting pot is unfortunate and misleading. A more accurate analogy would be a salad bowl, for, though the salad is an entity, the lettuce can still be distinguished from the chicory, the tomatoes from the cabbage. Carl N. Degler Quotes |
| America is a place where Jewish merchants sell Zen love beads to agnostics for Christmas. John Burton Brimer Quotes |
| I pledge allegiance to my Flag and the Republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Francis Bellamy Quotes |
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| America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people. Gloria Steinem Quotes |
| We Americans have no commission from God to police the world. Benjamin Harrison, address to Congress, Quotes |
| The winds that blow through the wide sky in these mounts, the winds that sweep from Canada to Mexico, from the Pacific to the Atlantic - have always blown on free men. Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes |
| America is the only country ever founded on the printed word. Marshall McLuhan Quotes |
| I will never admit that the beloved flag is to me merely the symbol of a land where I can live in rich content and make money. Henry Cabot Lodge Quotes |
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| If America ever passes out as a great nation, we ought to put on our tombstone: America died from a delusion she had Moral Leadership. Will Rogers Quotes |
Rachel: The pilgrims came here to escape persecution from the British.
Elizabeth: Yes, so they could go about persecuting the Indians.
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| Aborigines, n.: Persons of little worth found cumbering the soil of a newly discovered country. They soon cease to cumber; they fertilize. Ambrose Bierce Quotes |
| What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it. Margot Asquith Quotes |
| The skies of happiness shine upon these United States of America. Mirakel Reves Quotes |
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| I love my freedom. I love my America. Jessi Lane Adams Quotes |
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You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world.... We are not a nation, so much as a world. Herman Melville Quotes |
| May I never wake up from the American dream. Carrie Latet Quotes |
| In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from. Peter Ustinov Quotes |
| America is much more than a geographical fact. It is a political and moral fact - the first community in which men set out in principle to institutionalize freedom, responsible government, and human equality. Adlai Stevenson Quotes |
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| America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization. Georges Clemenceau Quotes |
| The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples. Walter Lippman Quotes |
| If you can speak three languages you're trilingual. If you can speak two languages you're bilingual. If you can speak only one language you're an American. Author Unknown Quotes |
| Very little is known about the War of 1812 because the Americans lost it. Eric Nicol Quotes |
| America is not just a country but a way. Carrie Latet Quotes |
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What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds. Will Rogers Quotes |
Oh, it's home again and home again, America for me!
I want a ship that's westward bound to plough the rolling sea
To the blessed land of Room Enough beyond the ocean bars,
Where the air is full of sunlight and the flag is full of stars.
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| What we need are critical lovers of America - patriots who express their faith in their country by working to improve it. Hubert H. Humphrey Quotes |
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The United States is the only country with a known birthday. James G. Blaine Quotes |
| Not merely a nation but a nation of nations. Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes |
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| We sleep peacefully at night, cradled by the big strong hands of America. Val Saintsbury Quotes |
| Don't forget to stop every once in a while and actually thank God for blessing America - he gets a lot of requests, you know. Carrie Latet Quotes |
| It is the flag just as much of the man who was naturalized yesterday as of the men whose people have been here many generations. Henry Cabot Lodge Quotes |
| Ours is the only country deliberately founded on a good idea. John Gunther Quotes |
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We need an America with the wisdom of experience. But we must not let America grow old in spirit. Hubert H. Humphrey Quotes |
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| We on this continent should never forget that men first crossed the Atlantic not to find soil for their ploughs but to secure liberty for their souls. Robert J. McCracken Quotes |
| When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white man came, an Indian said simply, "Ours." Vine Deloria, Jr. Quotes |
Star-spangled happiness
and banner waves of pride.
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| My favorite thing about the United States? Lots of Americans, one America. Val Saintsbury Quotes |
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Of all the supervised conditions for life offered man, those under USA's constitution have proved the best. Wherefore, be sure when you start modifying, corrupting or abrogating it. Martin H. Fischer Quotes |
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Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world. Woodrow Wilson Quotes |
| America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. Abraham Lincoln Quotes |
| Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian. Robert Orben Quotes |
| Only Americans can hurt America. Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes |
| We dare not forget that we are the heirs of that first revolution. John F. Kennedy Quotes |
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| A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election. Bill Vaughan Quotes |
| We cannot reform the world.... Uncle Sugar is as dangerous a role for us to play as Uncle Shylock. John F. Kennedy Quotes |
| To me, being an American means feeling safe. Currielene Armstrong Quotes |
| If you take advantage of everything America has to offer, there’s nothing you can’t accomplish. Geraldine Ferraro Quotes |
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If our country is worth dying for in time of war let us resolve that it is truly worth living for in time of peace. Hamilton Fish Quotes |
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| America is a nation with many flaws, but hopes so vast that only the cowardly would refuse to acknowledge them. James Michener Quotes |
| When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies glistening in the sun, the wide and rising plains, the great mountains, and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self-respect. Adlai Stevenson Quotes |
| America is great because it has as much diversity in geographies as it does in peoples. Aurora Raigne Quotes |
| America is God's crucible, the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and reforming!... The real American has not yet arrived. He is only in the crucible, I tell you - he will be the fusion of all races. Israel Zangwill Quotes |
| Some Americans need hyphens in their names, because only part of them has come over; but when the whole man has come over, heart and thought and all, the hyphen drops of its own weight out of his name. Woodrow Wilson Quotes |
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| America is a passionate idea or it is nothing. America is a human brotherhood or it is chaos. Max Lerner Quotes |
| America, for me, has been the pursuit and catching of happiness. Aurora Raigne Quotes |
| This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in. Theodore Roosevelt Quotes |
| There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America. William J. Clinton Quotes |
| This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave. Elmer Davis Quotes |
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| Yet America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres. Ralph Waldo Emerson, "The Poet," Quotes |
| How often we fail to realize our good Fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy. Paul Sweeney Quotes |
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What the people want is very simple. They want an America as good as its promise. Barbara Jordan Quotes |
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If you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag; wash it. Norman Thomas Quotes |
| America is a tune. It must be sung together. Gerald Stanley Lee Quotes |
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| What is the essence of America? Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom "to" and freedom "from." Marilyn vos Savant, in Quotes |
| Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans. John F. Kennedy Quotes |
| But what do we mean by the American Revolution? Do we mean the American War? The revolution was effected before the war commenced. The revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people. Geoffrey F. Abert Quotes |
| But what do we mean by the American Revolution? Do we mean the American War? The revolution was effected before the war commenced. The revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people. Geoffrey F. Abert Quotes |
| That the said Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press or the rights of conscience; or to prevent the people of the United states who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms... Samuel Adams Quotes |
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| Let us talk sense to the American people. Let us tell them the truth, that there are not gains without pains. Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno Quotes |
| In the United States today, we have more than our share of nattering nabobs of negativism. Spiro Agnew Quotes |
| I love the United States, but I see here everything is measured by success, by how much money it makes, not the satisfaction to the individual. John Fellows Akers Quotes |
| I had always loved beautiful and artistic things, though before leaving America I had had a very little chance of seeing any. Emma Albani Quotes |
| When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white man came, an Indian said simply, "Ours. Father Andrew SDC Quotes |
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| We really are 15 countries, and it's really remarkable that each of us thinks we represent the real America. The Midwesterner in Kansas, the black American in Durham -- both are certain they are the real American. Maya Angelou Quotes |
| We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans. Reubin Askew Quotes |
| I love America because America trusts me. When I go into a shop to buy a pair of shoes I am not asked to produce my Identity Card. I love it because my mail is not censored. My phone is not tapped. My conversation with friends is not reported to the secret police. Janina Atkins Quotes |
| Ours is a country built more on people than on territory. The Jews will come from everywhere: from France, from Russia, from America, from Yemen. ... Their faith is their passport. Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe Quotes |
| America is the country where you buy a lifetime supply of aspirin for one dollar, and use it up in two weeks. John Barrymore Quotes |
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| Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball. Jacques Martin Barzun Quotes |
| Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity. Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities. So I believe that dreams--daydreams, you know, with your eyes wide open and your brain machinery whizzing--are likely to lead to the betterment of the world. The imaginative child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to invent, and therefore to foster, civilization. L. Frank Baum Quotes |
| There is a need for heroism in American life today. Vicki Baum Quotes |
| Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic. (Enoch) Arnold Bennett Quotes |
| The secretary of education does not work for the education establishment. The secretary works for the American people. William John Bennett Quotes |
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| England and America are two countries separated by the same language. Sir Walter Besant Quotes |
| Winston Churchill was not entirely British. His mother was American, making Sir Winston part Iroquois Indian. Rachel Blanchard Quotes |
| Our American past always speaks to us with two voices: the voice of the past, and the voice of the present. We are always asking two quite different questions. Historians reading the words of John Winthrop usually ask, What did they mean to him? Citizens ask, What do they mean to us? Historians are trained to seek the original meaning; all of us want to know the present meaning. Daniel J(oseph) Boorstin Quotes |
| The American experience stirred mankind from discovery to exploration, from the cautious quest for what they knew (or what they thought they knew) was out there, to an enthusiastic reaching to the unknown. Daniel J(oseph) Boorstin Quotes |
| [Americans] expect to eat and stay thin, to be constantly on the move and ever more neighborly...to revere God and be God. Daniel J(oseph) Boorstin Quotes |
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| The Constitution of the United States is not a mere lawyers' document; it is a vehicle of life, and its spirit is always the spirit of the age. Nadia Boulanger Quotes |
| The problem is that Americans would like to be independent of the rest of the world ... Except the world ain't that way. Trying to be independent of the rest of the world is to commit suicide. Ben(jamin William) Bova Quotes |
| One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife.... Robert Whitney Boynton Quotes |
| The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me, by newspapers and The Bible. Van Wyck Brooks Quotes |
| The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you. Rita Mae Brown Quotes |
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| Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights; American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others. William Jennings Bryan Quotes |
| America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world. George Herbert Walker Bush Quotes |
| Terrorist attacks can shake The Foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch The Foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve." [referring to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon] George Walker Bush Quotes |
| Indeed, the Founders mentioned the pagan authors in so many heartfelt speeches, pamphlets and letters that today's sweeping references to America's 'Christian' roots and 'Judeo-Christian heritage' ought to be amended. Maybe these terms should be reserved to explain the traditional religions and morality of individuals, families, congregations, small communitities. Politically, our notions of virtue and vice have had another genesis. Colin Campbell Quotes |
| This American system of ours . . . call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you like, gives to each and every one of us a great opportunity if we only seize it with both hands and make the most of it. Al Capone Quotes |
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| My rackets are run on strictly American lines and they're going to stay that way. Al Capone Quotes |
| America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense ... human rights invented America. James Earl Quotes |
| An American is a man with two arms and four wheels. A Chinese Child Quotes |
| I am often troubled as I try hard here to create a new sense of common purpose ... that sometimes we forget that we are all in this because we are seeking a good that helps all Americans. William Jefferson Clinton Quotes |
| I have news for the forces of greed and the defenders of the status quo: your time has come -- and gone. It's time for change in America. William Jefferson Clinton Quotes |
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| A world in which others controlled the course of their own development ... would be a world in which the American system would be seriously endangered. Benjamin Cohen Quotes |
| Well, it looks like the all-star balloting is about over, especially in the National and American Leagues. Jerry Coleman Quotes |
| In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who 'come out' together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude. Charles Caleb Colton Quotes |
| I think the American public wants a solemn ass as a President, and I think I'll go along with them. (John) Calvin Coolidge Quotes |
| Loneliness seems to have become the great American disease. John Corry Quotes |
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| We must get the American public to look past the glitter, beyond the showmanship, to the reality, the hard substance of things. And we'll do it ... not so much with speeches that will bring people to their feet as with speeches that bring people to their senses. Mario M(atthew) Cuomo Quotes |
| We can now prove that large numbers of Americans are dying from sitting on their behinds. Bruce B. Dan Quotes |
| One of the things that is wrong with America is that everybody who has done anything at all in his own field is expected to be an authority on every subject under the sun. Elmer Davis Quotes |
| You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination. General Charles De Gaulle Quotes |
| The American male at the peak of his physical powers and appetites, driving 160 big white horses across the scenes of an increasingly open society, with weekend money in his pocket and with little prior exposure to trouble and tragedy, personifies "an accident going to happen. John Sloan Dickey Quotes |
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| If I were to select a jack-booted group of fascists who are perhaps as large a danger to American Society as I could pick today, I would pick BATF. John Dingell Quotes |
| If anyone attempts to hall down the American flag shoot him on the spot. John A. Dix Quotes |
| At least she's the president of something, which is more than I can say." (on his wife Elizabeth, president of the American Red Cross) Robert Joseph Quotes |
| For any woman to success in American life she must first do two things: Prepare herself for a profession, and marry a man who wants her to succeed as much as she does. Cathleen Douglas Quotes |
| The Second Amendment reveals a profound principle of American government - the principle of civilian ascendency over the military. William Orville Douglas Quotes |
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| Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us. William Orville Douglas Quotes |
| What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: A day that reveals to him, more than all other days of the year, the gross injustices and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him your celebration is a sham. Frederick Douglass Quotes |
| Our country was founded on a distrust of government. Our founding fathers gave power to the people to keep an eye on government. So when politicians say, Trust me, they're actually being very un-American. David Duchovny Quotes |
| I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged. Bob Dylan Quotes |
| I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball. Gerald Early Quotes |
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| The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children. Edward VIII Quotes |
| I feel that you are justified in looking into the future with true assurance, because you have a mode of living in which we find the joy of life and the joy of work harmoniously combined. Added to this is the spirit of ambition which pervades your very being, and seems to make the day's work like a happy child at play. (referring to America) Albert Einstein Quotes |
| The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being. Albert Einstein Quotes |
| Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves. Albert Einstein Quotes |
| I have found out in later years [that] we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it then. Dwight David Eisenhower Quotes |
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| There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens can not cure. Dwight David Eisenhower Quotes |
| Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion. Dwight David Eisenhower Quotes |
| Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America. Dwight David Eisenhower Quotes |
| I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem-and that yardstick is: Is it good for America? Dwight David Eisenhower Quotes |
| The story of my boyhood and that of my brothers is important only because it could happen in any American family. It did, and will again. Earl Eisenhower Quotes |
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| Russians can give you arms but only the United States can give you a solution. Anwar el-Sadat Quotes |
| We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep. Elizabeth II Quotes |
| In England every man you meet is some man's son; in America, he may be some man's father. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
| Divine right went out with the American Revolution and doesn't belong to the White House aides. What meat do they eat that makes them grow so great? Sam(uel) James Ervin, Jr. Quotes |
| America is so vast that almost everything said about it is likely to be true, and the opposite is probably equally true. James T. Farell Quotes |
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| A coalition of groups ... is waging a massive propaganda campaign against the president of the United States. ... an all-out attack. Their aim is total victory for themselves and total defeat [for him]." (On Watergate crisis) Gerald R. Ford Quotes |
| The political lesson of Watergate is this: Never again must America allow an arrogant, elite guard of political adolescents to by-pass the regular party organization and dictate the terms of a national election. Gerald R. Ford Quotes |
| An American tragedy in which we all have played a part." (On Watergate, announcing pardon of former President Richard M Nixon) Gerald R. Ford Quotes |
| As I rejected amnesty, so I reject revenge. I ask all Americans who ever asked for goodness and mercy in their lives, who ever sought forgiveness for their trespasses, to join in rehabilitating all the casualties of the tragic conflict of the past." (On Americans who avoided conscription during the Vietnam War, to Veterans of Foreign Wars) Gerald R. Ford Quotes |
| My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over." (On succeeding Richard M Nixon as president) Gerald R. Ford Quotes |
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| In America you can go on the air and kid the politicians, and the politicians can go on the air and kid the people. Personal relations are the important thing for ever and ever and not this outer life of telegrams and anger. Edward Morgan Forster Quotes |
| We go forth all to seek America. And in the seeking we create her. In the quality of our search shall be the nature of the America that we created. Waldo Frank Quotes |
| American housewives have not had their brains shot away, nor are they schizophrenic in the clinical sense. But if ... the fundamental human drive is not the urge for pleasure or the satisfaction of biological needs, but the need to grow and to realize one's full potential, their comfortable, empty, purposeless days are indeed cause for a nameless terror. Betty Naomi Friedan Quotes |
| America is closer to the year 2 than anywhere else on earth. David Frost Quotes |
| What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is understand others. Carlos Fuentes Quotes |
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| The junior senator from Wisconsin, by his reckless charges, has so preyed upon the fears and hatreds and prejudices of the American people that he has started a prairie fire which neither he nor anyone else may be able to control. J(ames) William Fulbright Quotes |
| I was looking for an American symbol. A Coca-Cola bottle or a Mickey Mouse would have been ridiculous, doing anything with the American flag would have been insulting, and Cadillac hub caps were just too uncomfortable." (speaking about the dress she wore made of American Express Cards) Lizzy Gardiner Quotes |
| Because systems of mass communication can communicate only officially acceptable levels of reality, no one can know the extent of the secret unconscious life. No one in America can know what will happen. No one is in real control. Allen Ginsberg Quotes |
| The American Constitution is, so far as I can see, the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given time by the brain and purpose of man. William E(dwart) Gladstone Quotes |
| Harrison Ford as the President of the United States [in Air Force One] is such a perfect piece of casting that it's once a fantasy and a joke: The joke is how perfect the fantasy is. Owen Gleiberman Quotes |
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| I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is -- I could be just as proud for half the money. Arthur Godfrey Quotes |
| Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years. William Golding Quotes |
| Certain people in the United States are driving nails into this structure of our relationship, then cutting off the heads. So the Soviets must use their teeth to pull them out. Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev Quotes |
| The genius of the American system is that we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people. Phil Gramm Quotes |
| I'm the only American alive or dead who presided unhappily over the removal of a vice president and a president. Alexander Meigs Haig, Jr. Quotes |
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| I hope in the future Americans are thought of as a warlike, vicious people, because I bet a lot of high schools would pick 'Americans' as their mascot. Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts] Quotes |
| Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted to think about any other role. William Torrey Harris Quotes |
| We Americans have no commission from God to police the world. Benjamin Harrison Quotes |
| We are a people who do not want to keep much of the past in our heads. It is considered unhealthy in America to remember mistakes, neurotic to think about them, psychotic to dwell on them. Lillian Hellman Quotes |
| Many businessmen fail to understand Python principles--the ultimate absurdity was an offer from America to buy the 'format' of the Python shows, that is, Monty Python without the Pythons--corporate methods do not have the conceptual framework to deal with an anarchist collective, run by intelligent and arrogant comedians who have proved that their method works. Robert Hewison Quotes |
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| The only difference between a pigeon and the American farmer today is that a pigeon can still make a deposit on a John Deere. Jim Hightower Quotes |
| If ignorance paid dividends, most Americans could make a Fortune out of what they don't know about economics. Luther H. Hodges Quotes |
| [America is] still the best country for the common man -- white or black ... if he can't make it here he won't make it anywhere else. Eric Hoffer Quotes |
| No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him. Herbert Clark Hoover Quotes |
| There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing. Herbert Clark Hoover Quotes |
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| I express many absurd opinions, but I am not the first man to do it; American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense. Edgar Watson Howe Quotes |
| The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people. To the teacher, America entrusts her most precious resource, her children; and asks that they be prepared ... to face the rigors of individual participation in a democratic society. Shirley Mount Hufstedler Quotes |
| Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of the citizens to keep and bear arms. This is not to say that firearms should not be carefully used and that definite safety rules of precaution should not be taught and enforced. But the right of the citizens to bear arms is just one guarantee against arbitrary government and one more safeguard against a tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible. Hubert H. Humphrey Quotes |
| It has been said that we have not had the three R's in America, we had the six R's: remedial readin', remedial 'ritin' and remedial 'rithmetic. Robert Maynard Hutchins Quotes |
| Americans have the will to resist because you have weapons. If you don't have a gun, freedom of speech has no power. Yoshimi Ishikawa Quotes |
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| America is not like a blanket -- one piece of unbroken cloth, the same color, the same texture, the same size. America is more like a quilt -- many patches, many pieces, many colors, many sizes, all woven and held together by a common thread. Henry M. Jackson Quotes |
| The white, the Hispanic, the black, the Arab, the Jew, the woman, the Native American, the small farmer, the businessperson, the environmentalist, the peace activist, the young, the old, the lesbian, the gay and the disabled make up the American quilt. Jesse Louis Jackson Quotes |
| America is not like a blanket-one piece of unbroken cloth, the same color, the same texture, the same size. America is more like a quilt-many patches, many pieces, many colors, many sizes, all woven and held together by a common thread. Jesse Louis Jackson Quotes |
| Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between Church and State. Thomas Jefferson Quotes |
| It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate - to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance. Thomas Jefferson Quotes |
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| The superiority of chocolate (hot chocolate), both for health and nourishment, will soon give it the same preference over tea and coffee in America which it has in Spain. . . Thomas Jefferson Quotes |
| The Negro says, 'Now.' Others say, 'Never.' The voice of responsible Americans ... says, 'Together.' There is no other way. Lyndon Baines Johnson Quotes |
| I greet you as the shapers of American Society. Lyndon Baines Johnson Quotes |
| I'm tired. I'm tired of feeling rejected by the American people. I'm tired of waking up in the middle of the night worrying about the war. Lyndon Baines Johnson Quotes |
| The American city should be a collection of communities where every member has a right to belong. It should be a place where every man feels safe on his streets and in the house of his friends. It should be a place where each individual's dignity and self-respect is strengthened by the respect and affection of his neighbors. It should be a place where each of us can find the satisfaciton and warmth which comes from being a member of the community of man. This is what man sought at the dawn of civilzation. It is what we seek today. Lyndon Baines Johnson Quotes |
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| We Americans know-although others appear to forget-the risk of spreading conflict. We still seek no wider war." (On ordering retaliatory action against North Vietnam) Lyndon Baines Johnson Quotes |
| They call upon us to supply American boys to do the job that Asian boys should do. Lyndon Baines Johnson Quotes |
| A rioter with a Molotov cocktail in his hands is not fighting for civil rights any more than a Klansman with a sheet on his back and mask on his face. They are both more or less what the law declares them: lawbreakers, destroyers of constitutional rights and liberties and ultimately destroyers of a free America. Lyndon Baines Johnson Quotes |
| I report to you that our country is challenged at home and abroad: that it is our will that is being tried and not our strength; our sense of purpose and not our ability to achieve a better America. Lyndon Baines Johnson Quotes |
| America has not always been kind to its artists and scholars. Somehow the scientists always seem to get the penthouse while the arts and humanities get the basement. Lyndon Baines Johnson Quotes |
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| What the people want is very simple. They want an America as good as its promise. Barbara Charline Jordan Quotes |
| Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to smart Americans who blow horns to break up traffic jams. Mary Ellen Kelly Quotes |
| The best [an American] can look forward to is the lonely pleasure of one who stands at long last on a chilly and inhospitable mountaintop where few have been before, where few can follow and where few will consent to believe he has been. George Frost Kennan Quotes |
| The best thing we can do if we want the Russians to let us be Americans is to let the Russians be Russian. George Frost Kennan Quotes |
| To exclude from positions of trust and command all those below the age of 44 would have kept Jefferson from writing the Declaration of Independence, Washington from commanding the Continental Army, Madison from fathering the Constitution, Hamilton from serving as secretary of the treasury, Clay from being elected speaker of the House and Christopher Columbus from discovering America. John Fitzgerald Kennedy Quotes |
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| I hope that no American ... will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either for me or against me solely on account of my religious affiliation. It is not relevant. John Fitzgerald Kennedy Quotes |
| The new frontier of which I speak is not a set of promises-it is a set of challenges. It sums up not what I intend to offer the American people, but what I intend to ask of them. It appeals to their pride, not their pocketbook-it holds out the promise of more sacrifice instead of more security. John Fitzgerald Kennedy Quotes |
| If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United States, he can do it. All he must be prepared to do is give his life for the president's. John Fitzgerald Kennedy Quotes |
| And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you -- ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world, ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man. John Fitzgerald Kennedy Quotes |
| We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people. John Fitzgerald Kennedy Quotes |
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| Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans, born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage, and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today, at home and around the world! John Fitzgerald Kennedy Quotes |
| The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. ... The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission." (Announcing blockade of Cuba) John Fitzgerald Kennedy Quotes |
| I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty. John Fitzgerald Kennedy Quotes |
| [The] American temptation [is] to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry. Robert Francis Kennedy Quotes |
| The future does not belong to those who are content with today, apathetic toward common problems and their fellow man alike, timid and fearful in the face of bold projects and new ideas. Rather, it will belong to those who can blend passion, reason and courage in a personal commitment to the ideals of American Society. Robert Francis Kennedy Quotes |
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| I feel the happiest when I can light my American cigarettes with Soviet matches. Mohammed Daud Khan Quotes |
| Support by United States rulers is rather in the nature of the support that the rope gives to a hanged man. Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev Quotes |
| America is just the country that shows how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society. Peter Kropotkin Quotes |
| Wherever I have gone in this country, I have found Americans. Alf Landon Quotes |
| If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day Weekend. Doug Larson Quotes |
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| America shudders at anything alien, and when it wants to shut its mind against any man's ideas, it calls him a foreigner. Max Lerner Quotes |
| The American sign of civic progress is to tear down the familiar and erect the monstrous. Shane Leslie Quotes |
| You see few people here in America who really care very much about living a Christian life in a democratic world. Clare Boothe Luce Quotes |
| You think America is the biggest place on Earth, but it's not. [The view from Mir] put everything in perspective. Shannon Lucid Quotes |
| Quite frankly Ted, the very mention of the word 'Republican' seems to have negative connotations for the Americans in our studio. Frank Luntz Quotes |
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| Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered. For the American citadel is a man. Not man in general. Not man in the abstract. Not the majority of men. But man. That man. His worth. His uniqueness. Archibald MacLeish Quotes |
| The great omission in American life is solitude. . . that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incinerator of the spirit. Marya Mannes Quotes |
| If American men are obsessed with money, American women are obsessed with weight. The men talk of gain, the women talk of loss, and I do not know which talk is the more boring. Marya Mannes Quotes |
| I cannot help but wonder whether, by continuing and expanding the school lunch program, we aren't witnessing, if not encouraging, the slow demise of yet another American tradition: the brown bag. ... Perhaps we are beholding yet another break in the chain that links child to home. Charles Mathias, Jr. Quotes |
| This is obviously an act of war that has been committed on the United States." [referring to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon] John McCain Quotes |
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| Americans who had traveled in Europe knew the 'free' European peasants suffered considerably greater oppression and misery than did American bondsman. Modern scholarship has shown that the exploitation rate -- the percentage of the worker's production that was taken from him by his owners -- was lower among the slaves than among European peasants, that work loads were light, and that slaves actually experienced a considerable measure of personal freedom. Forest McDonald Quotes |
| When people ask if the United States can afford to place on trial the president, if the system can stand impeachment, my answer is, "Can we stand anything else? George Stanley McGovern Quotes |
| The United States has the power to destroy the world, but not the power to save it alone. Margaret Mead Quotes |
| The typical American of today has lost all the love of liberty, |
