America Quotes - Page 8

• I always like to go to Washington D.C. It gives me a chance to visit my money.

  Bob Hope

  Funny, Money, Usa

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• Unemployment is down, confidence is up, DOW 5,000 above Bush - or as Republicans put it, let's talk about gay people and abortion!

  Bill Maher

  Confidence, Gay, Usa

  Twitter post from Feb 20, 2012

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• It is clear that the main element of any United States policy toward the Soviet Union must be that of long-term, patient but firm and vigilant containment of Russian expansive tendencies.

  George F. Kennan

  Russia, Usa, Long

  "The Sources of Soviet Conduct," Foreign Affairs, July 1947

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• I will speak until I can no longer speak. I will speak as long as it takes, until the alarm is sounded from coast to coast that our Constitution is important, that your rights to trial by jury are precious, that no American should be killed by a drone on American soil without first being charged with a crime, without first being found to be guilty by a court.

  Rand Paul

  Rights, Law, Long

  FaceBook post by Rand Paul from Mar 06, 2013

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• We've backed off in good faith to try and give you a chance to straighten this problem out. But I am going to beg with you for a minute. I'm going to plead with you, do not cross us. Because if you do, the survivors will write about what we do here for 10,000 years.

  James Mattis

  Faith, Military, Patriotic

  "19 Unforgettable Quotes From Retiring General James 'Mad Dog' Mattis" by Geoffrey Ingersoll and Paul Szoldra, www.businessinsider.com. January 23, 2013.

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• For the mission's sake, our country's sake, and the sake of the men who carried the Division's colors in the past battles - who fought for life and never lost their nerve - carry out your mission and keep your honor clean. Demonstrate to the world there is "No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy" than a U.S. Marine.

  James Mattis

  Life, Country, Military

  "Eve of Battle Speech". "The Weekly Standard" Magazine, March 1, 2003.

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• A lawyer’s either a social engineer or … a parasite on society … A social engineer [is] a highly skilled, perceptive, sensitive lawyer who [understands] the Constitution of the United States and [knows] how to explore its uses in the solving of problems of local communities and in bettering conditions of the underprivileged citizens.

  Charles Hamilton Houston

  Engineering, Community, Society

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• The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact.

  Henry A. Wallace

  Truth, Facts, Propaganda

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• American Education has a long history of infatuation with fads and ill-considered ideas. The current obsession with making our schools work like a business may be the worst of them, for it threatens to destroy public education. Who will Stand up to the tycoons and politicians and tell them so?

  Diane Ravitch

  Education, Business, School

  Diane Ravitch (2016). “The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education”, p.236, Basic Books

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• I shall never fight in the armed forces with a Negro by my side... Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds.

  Robert Byrd

  Patriotic, Fighting, Race

  "An Unlikely Friendship: President Obama and Senator Byrd" by Eve Zibel, www.foxnews.com. June 28, 2010.

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• A man of abilities and character, of any sect whatever, may be admitted to any office of public trust under the United States.

  Edmund Randolph

  Trust, Character, Equality

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• America is just downright mean.

  Michelle Obama

  Mean

  "Yes Michelle Obama can" by Rachel Cooke, Mariella Frostrup, Gina McCauley, Julie Myerson, Gaby Wood, Camila Batmanghelidjh, Carole Cadwalladr, Barbara Ellen, Elizabeth Day, Louise France, Miranda Sawyer, www.theguardian.com. May 2, 2009.

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• America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to a select few.

  Will Rogers

  Education, Ignorance, Tragedy

  "Will Rogers Speaks". Over 1000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers And Writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers...,

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• America doesn't reward people of my age, either in day-to-day life or for their performances.

  Meryl Streep

  Birthday, People, Age

  "Aged to perfection: Role model for beauty" by Gail O'Neill, www.cnn.com. March 09, 2003.

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• In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.

  Peter Ustinov

  Freedom, Choices, Individuality

  Peter Ustinov (1969). “The wit of Peter Ustinov”

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• It's the movies that have really been running things in America ever since they were invented. They show you what to do, how to do it, when to do it, how to feel about it, and how to look how you feel about it.

  Andy Warhol

  Running, Gambling, Commercial Art

  Andy Warhol (2015). “America”, p.12, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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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

  4th Of July, Patriotic, Patriotism

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• America is a tune. It must be sung together.

  Gerald Stanley Lee

  Inspirational, 4th Of July, Patriotic

  Gerald Stanley Lee (1913). “Crowds: A Moving-picture of Democracy”

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• I was very much disappointed in the Atlantic Ocean.

  Oscar Wilde

  Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, Disappointed

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• It is impossible for a stranger traveling through the United States to tell from the appearance of the people or the country whether he is in Toledo, Ohio, or Portland, Oregon. Ninety million Americans cut their hair in the same way, eat each morning exactly the same breakfast, tie up the small girls curls with precisely the same kind of ribbon fashioned into bows exactly alike; and in every way all try to look and act as much like all the others as they can.

  Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe

  Girl, Country, Morning

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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

  Greatness, Justice, May

  "Governor George W. Bush - 'A Distinctly American Internationalism'". Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, Simi Valley, California, www.globalsecurity.org. November 19, 1999.

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• By heritage and by choice, the United States of America will make that stand.

  George W. Bush

  Choices, United States, Heritage

  Speech to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 12 September 2002, New York, NY

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• America is a large country and its people have so far not shown much interest in great international problems, among which the problem of disarmament occupies first place today. This must be changed, if only in America's own interest. The last war has shown that there are no longer any barriers between the continents and that the destinies of all countries are closely interwoven. The people of this country must realize that they have a great responsibility in the sphere of international politics. The part of passive spectator is unworthy of this country and is bound in the end to lead to disaster all round.

  Albert Einstein

  Country, War, Responsibility

  "Some Notes On My American Impressions". selftaughtcoders.com. 1921.

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• Hail, Columbia! happy land! Hail, ye heroes! heaven-born band! Who fought and bled in Freedom's cause.

  Joseph Hopkinson

  Hero, Land, Heaven

  "Hail, Columbia" l. 1 (1798)

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• America is a great country, but you can't live in it for nothing.

  Will Rogers

  Country, Great Country

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