America Quotes - Page 31

• If it is an element of liberation for Latin America, I believe that it should have demonstrated that. Until now, I have not been aware of any such demonstration. The IMF performs an entirely different function: precisely that of ensuring that capital based outside of Latin America controls all of Latin America.

  Che Guevara

  Latin, Believe, Should Have

  Radio Rivadavia of Argentina Interview, November 03, 1959.

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• The true religion of America has always been America.

  Norman Mailer

  True Religion

  1984 Interview in Time Out, 27 Sep-3 Oct.

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• America is the only country in the world that classifies as Negro any person who has one drop of African blood in his or her veins.

  Edward Brooke

  Country, Blood, Veins

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• Historically we have rejected extremism on the left and the right. Centrism is the right course for America.

  Edward Brooke

  Rejected, Courses, Left

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• The light may be fading on the 20th century, but the sun is still rising on America.

  William J. Clinton

  Light, Rising, Fading

  William J. Clinton (2000). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1999”, p.2353, Government Printing Office

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• In America, the most important thing is that people have freedom.  In restricted countries, the most important thing is what people do with freedom.

  George Otis

  Country, People, Important

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• One of finest evocations of life in Western America in recent memory... Powerful and profoundly moving.

  William Kittredge

  Memories, Powerful, Moving

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• The sacred obligation to the Union soldiers must not - will not be forgotten nor neglected. But those who fought against the Nation cannot and do not look to it for relief. Confederate soldiers and their descendants are to share with us and our descendants the destiny of America. Whatever, therefore, we their fellow citizens can do to remove burdens from their shoulders and to brighten their lives is surely in the pathway of humanity and patriotism.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Destiny, Soldier, Humanity

  Letter to Oliver Downing. "Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes: Nineteenth President of the United States". Book edited by Charles Richard Williams, The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, March 15, 1889.

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• No capitalists after any war were ever so well paid for money loaned to the nation that carried it on. No class of money-makers ever gained such prosperity by any other war, as our War for the Union brought to the money-getters of America. All this was due in great measure to the rank and file of the Union army. Now let no rich man haggle with a needy veteran of that war about his right to a pension!

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  War, Army, Men

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• To be a colored man in America ... and enjoy it, you must be greatly daring, greatly stolid, greatly humorous and greatly sensitive. And at all times a philosopher.

  Jessie Redmon Fauset

  Humorous, Men, Racism

  Jessie Redmon Fauset, Cherene Sherrard-Johnson (1933). “Comedy, American Style”

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• There is a choice before us as people who live in a great world, so knit together that even America cannot stand quite outside it, or act as though it were situated somewhere on the moon! That choice is a choice - let me put it quite brutally - between heaven and hell. ... But it is not a choice between a heaven or a hell beyond the grave; it is a choice between making heaven or making hell on this side of the grave, and in this world, here and now.

  Maude Royden

  Moon, People, Heaven

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• Historian Larry Hise notes in his book Pro-Slavery that ministers 'wrote almost half of all defenses of slavery published in America.' He listed 275 men of the cloth who used the Bible to prove that white people were entitled to own black people as work animals.

  James A. Haught

  Book, Men, Animal

  James A. Haught (1990). “Holy horrors: an illustrated history of religious murder and madness”

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• Republicans define freedom as an absence of restraints imposed by government. Democrats define freedom as an absence of necessity, which government exists to reduce. America has not moved as far as it thinks it has beyond the argument about the New Deal, when FDR insisted, "Necessitous men are not free men."

  George Will

  Party, Men, Thinking

  "Monica And Other GOP Calamities" by George Will, www.sfgate.com. February 1, 1999.

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• Legislation needs a better reason than that lawyers like it, and that America does it.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Doe, Needs, Lawyer

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• In our efforts to battle terrorism and cyber attacks and biological weapons, all of us must be extremely aggressive. We must protect our people from danger and keep America safe and free.

  William J. Clinton

  Cyber Attacks, People, Effort

  "Clinton Warns Against Biological, Computer Attacks", www.cnn.com. May 22, 1998.

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• ... We have seen dog-tired Members of Congress marching lockstep ahead with their eyes fixed only on the end of the 100 Days of the 1995 Republican 'Contract with America' reform efforts. Many of the changes wrought by the House were passed without the benefit of a single hearing, or at best with a minimal legislative record. Is this what Jefferson and Madison had in mind?

  John Gibbons

  Dog, Tired, Eye

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• If America's tv and movie producers are unwilling to clean up their act... when it comes to sex, bloodshed and violence in their programming... the government stands ready to step in.

  Janet Reno

  Sex, Government, Violence

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• The genius of the tradition as it has developed in America is the unique combination of giving and voluntary service in behalf of independent organizations and institutions devoted to the public interest.

  Robert L. Payton

  Independent, Unique, Organization

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• Data quality is corporate America's dirty little secret.

  Paul Gillin

  Dirty, Data, Secret

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• But the mark of American merit in painting, in sculpture, in poetry, in fiction, in eloquence, seems to be a certain grace withoutgrandeur, and itself not new but derivative; a vase of fair outline, but empty,--which whoso sees, may fill with what wit and character is in him, but which does not, like the charged cloud, overflow with terrible beauty, and emit lightnings on all beholders.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Character, Clouds, Grace

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.96, Library of America

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• The Americans have many virtues, but they have not Faith and Hope. I know no two words whose meaning is more lost sight of.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Faith, Hope, Sight

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.245

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• As long as our people quote English standards they dwarf their own proportions.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dwarves, Long, People

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.434, Harvard University Press

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• Luckily for us, now that steam has narrowed the Atlantic to a strait, the nervous, rocky West is intruding a new and continental element into the national mind, as we shall yet have an American genius.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mind, United States, Genius

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.216, Library of America

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• Let a man attain the highest and broadest culture that any American has possessed, then let him die by sea-storm, railroad collision, or other accident, and all America will acquiesce that the best thing has happened to him; that, after the education has gone far, such is the expensiveness of America, that the best use to put a fine person to is to drown him to save his board.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Sea, Storm

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.112, Harvard University Press

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• I remember the thought which occurred to me when some ingenious and spiritual foreigners came to America, was, Have you been victimized in being brought hither?--or, prior to that, answer me this, "Are you victimizable?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Spiritual, United States, Answers

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1458, Delphi Classics

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