America Quotes - Page 24

• I have listened to much dull and heavy conversation in America, but rarely to any that I could strictly call silly (if I except the every where privileged class of very young ladies).

  Frances Trollope

  Silly, Class, Dull

  Frances Trollope (2014). “Domestic Manners of the Americans”, p.36, Oxford University Press

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• Iraq and Afghanistan have exacted a toll on America - in lives, treasure and standing - that it will take a generation to work through.

  Roger Cohen

  Iraq, Generations, Tolls

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• One of my recent acquisitions. It is called a medicine bag, from one of the native tribes of North America. A fascinating people, highly skilled in the use of plants' power. They too understand nature's essence as divine. So much so that they do not think it is man's place to own the land at all. Imagine that - think of all the wars we would have missed!

  Maryrose Wood

  War, Men, Thinking

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• We should stop looking to law to provide the final answer.... Law cannot save us from ourselves.... We have to go out and try to accomplish our goals and resolve disagreements by doing what we think is right. That energy and resourcefulness, not millions of legal cubicles, is what was great about America. Let judgment and personal conviction be important again.

  Philip K. Howard

  Thinking, Law, Goal

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• This book is the best treatment of the best American Marxist philosopher-and the best philosopher to emerge from American slums. Young Sidney Hook is essential reading for anyone interested in democratic theory and practice in America.

  Cornel West

  Book, Reading, Practice

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• A Rick Santorum presidency would be very, very dangerous for America.

  Mark McKinnon

  Would Be, Dangerous, Presidency

  "Santorum Is Dangerous" by Mark McKinnon, www.thedailybeast.com. March 13, 2009.

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• America as we know it will end unless we end Medicare as we know it.

  Mark McKinnon

  Ends, Medicare, Knows

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• The most fearful phenomenon of these midcentury years is not the atom bomb; atomic energy does have its constructive possibilities.... The most fearful event of these times is the colossal expansion of the government of the United States and the constant increase of executive power within the government.

  Wheeler McMillen

  Government, Years, Executive Power

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• Poland remains undzer heym, our home, no matter how bitter the memories, how filled with disappointment and betrayal. Amerike iz goles, America is exile, a foreign land in which I speak a foreign tongue. But I will never live in Poland. I do not want to, though I do not see an end to the mourning.

  Irena Klepfisz

  Memories, Disappointment, Betrayal

  Irena Klepfisz (1990). “Dreams of an Insomniac: Jewish Feminist Essays, Speeches, and Diatribes”

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• The War of the Roses in England and the Civil War in America were both intestinal conflicts arising out of similar ideas. In the first the clash was between feudalism and the new economic order; in the second, between an agricultural society and a new industrial one. Both led to similar ends; the first to the founding of the English nation, and the second to the founding of the American. Both were strangely interlinked; for it was men of the old military and not of the new economic mind - men, such as Sir Humphrey Gilbert and Sir Walter Raleigh - who founded the English colonies in America.

  J. F. C. Fuller

  Military, War, Men

  "Grant and Lee: A Study in Personality and Generalship" by J. F. C. Fuller, (Ch. 1), 1957.

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• All over America there is to be found a large and growing class of earnest, intelligent, progressive colored women . . . many of them warped and cramped for lack of opportunity, not only to do more but to be more.

  Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin

  Intelligent, Opportunity, Class

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• America does not like losers. Look how we treated those soldiers who came back from Vietnam. Because they lost. America likes winners.

  Paul Mooney

  Soldier, Doe, Looks

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• People in America worship money, and a white man's face on a green piece of paper does not make me wealthy. My health makes me wealthy. I used to work at a hospital, so I know the real deal.

  Paul Mooney

  Real, Men, White Man

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• We in America have some grand ideals - and some very strong ideals - but a lot of times, those ideals are used for marketing.

  Brad Pitt

  Strong, Marketing, Used

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We, in America, love a story - we need a story to get involved in. But then everything becomes more about how the story protects a certain perception as we pick sides.

  Brad Pitt

  Perception, Needs, Stories

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• [Being in the States] is almost like being on a holiday. It's kind of annoying because everyone's like "Oh, you're so obsessed with America," but it's not really that. I just really enjoy being here - I'm not the first British artist to make music here and be inspired by the country.

  Marina and the Diamonds

  Country, Holiday, Artist

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• By the time I was 18, I had absorbed punk rock from America, Britain, and the West Coast. All of it was so dark and weird and different and cool and hot and sexy and rebellious. It was a fist-in-the-air kind of rebellion that I wasn't getting from the '70s mainstream.

  Michael Stipe

  Sexy, Dark, Rocks

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It's always surprised me that mainstream America had the good taste to like R.E.M. It doesn't have the digestible quality the general public tends to look for in its favorite musicians.

  Christopher Bollen

  Quality, Musician, Looks

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I do think the most important thing we need in leadership in our country, not just in the presidency but in the United States Senate, are people that have a clear vision of what the role of government should be in our lives and what the role of America should be in the world.

  Marco Rubio

  Country, Thinking, Government

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Government should allow people to go out and do the things Americans have always done, create jobs and prosperity. And America's role in the world - the world is a safer and better place when America is the strongest country in the world.

  Marco Rubio

  Country, Jobs, Government

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Unlike other countries, it was founded on written proclamations. America is an ideal as well as a republic. Its documents are open to revisions. They're works in progress. There's an invitation to participate.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Country, Progress, Republic

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• Suddenly that it was as dangerous to be in America as it was to be overseas. So that the false distinction that's made by the anti-war movement between being over there and over here was exposed for all to see as an illusion. Although a number of people, a large amount of people still share in it. In other words, when I've been in Iraq or Afghanistan, I've probably been safer because I can carry a weapon if I have to, than my wife and daughter are living in Washington.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Daughter, War, Iraq

  Source: www.npr.org

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• America was not interventionist enough, which, of course, did mean a bit of a breach with old comrades on the left. I felt the international left in the countries concerned took the same position as I did. So, in my view, it's the left that's become reactionary and isolationist and parochial.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Country, Mean, Views

  Source: www.npr.org

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• So there's nothing more vulgar than the sound of someone saying, God Bless America, someone who doesn't really believe it, but he thinks it will make him look good to other people. I think it's the most nauseating spectacle.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Believe, Thinking, People

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Our opponent [ Representative John Lewis] is someone who sees America as imperfect enough to pal around with terrorists who targeted their own country.

  Sarah Palin

  Country, Pals, Opponents

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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