United States Of America Quotes - Page 8

• The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United States of America.

  Stendhal

  America, United States, Public Opinion

  Stendhal (2006). “The Red and the Black”, p.9, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I'm afraid that in the United States of America today the prevailing doctrine of justification is not justification by faith alone. It is not even justification by good works or by a combination of faith and works. The prevailing notion of justification in our culture today is justification by death. All one has to do to be received into the everlasting arms of God is to die.

  R. C. Sproul

  America, United States, Doctrine

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• Indianapolis, Indiana is the first place in the United States of America where a white man was hanged for the murder of an Indian. The kind of people who'll hang a white man for murdering an Indian--that's the kind of people for me.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Men, White Man, America

  Kurt Vonnegut (2007). “The Sirens of Titan”, p.321, Dial Press

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• Her magic formula for dealing with children is ignoring all faults and accenting tiny virtues. She says, "Instead of telling Tommy day in and day out that he is the naughtiest boy in the United States of America, which could very well be true, take an aspirin and comment on his neatly tied shoes. Almost anybody would rather be known for expert shoe-tying than for kicking the cat." She always tells whiners how charming they are--bullies how brave--bad sports how good--sneaks how honest!

  Betty MacDonald

  Sports, Children, Cat

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• I was born in Europe... and I've traveled all over the world. I can tell you that there is no place, no country, that is more compassionate, more generous, more accepting, and more welcoming than the United States of America.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Country, America, Europe

  2004 Republican National Convention Address, delivered 31 August 2004, Madison Square Garden, New York

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• Two centuries ago, a former European colony decided to catch up with Europe. It succeeded so well that the United States of America became a monster, in which the taints, the sickness and the inhumanity of Europe have grown to appalling dimensions

  Frantz Fanon

  Europe, Two, America

  Frantz Fanon (1963). “The Damned”

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• God has a special providence for fools, drunks, and the United States of America.

  Otto von Bismarck

  America, Special, United States

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• Here's the truth: the Soviet Union had thousands of nuclear weapons, and Iran doesn't have a single one. But when the world was on the brink of nuclear holocaust, Kennedy talked to Khrushchev and he got those missiles out of Cuba. Why shouldn't we have the same courage and the confidence to talk to our enemies? That's what strong countries do, that's what strong presidents do, that's what I'll do when I'm president of the United States of America.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Strong, Iran

  "Obama on Iran: What's McCain afraid of?". www.politico.com. May 19, 2008.

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• Although the circumstances of our lives may seem very disengaged, with me standing here as the First Lady of the United States of America and you just getting through school, I want you to know we have very much in common. For nothing in my life ever would have predicted that I would be standing here as the first African-American First Lady.

  Michelle Obama

  School, America, United States

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• There are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq and there are patriots who supported the war in Iraq. We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America.

  Barack Obama

  Stars, War, Patriotic

  2004 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 27 July 2004, Fleet Center, Boston

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• Too small is our world to allow discrimination, bigotry and intolerance to thrive in any corner of it, let alone in the United States of America.

  Eliot Engel

  Our World, America, United States

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• I cannot understand how the education of this United States of America has been fooled time and time again. Either make it separate but equal or integrate, therefore it will be equal. And it has been separate and unequal.

  Bill Cosby

  Education, America, United States

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• I think it's fair to say that diplomacy today requires much more of that if you're the United States of America than it did 10, 20, 30, 40 years ago.

  Hillary Clinton

  Thinking, America, Years

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• If anybody ran a business like that they would be out of business quickly, and Barack Obama's leadership is driving this business, the United States of America, toward a fiscal cliff.

  Chris Christie

  America, United States, Would Be

  "Christie: Obama remarks an 'outrage'" by Juana Summers, www.politico.com. June 8, 2012.

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• God has opened many doors of opportunity throughout my lifetime, but I believe the greatest of those doors was allowing me to be born in the United States of America.

  Benjamin Carson

  Believe, Opportunity, Doors

  "America the Beautiful: Rediscovering What Made This Nation Great". Book by Benjamin Carson, 2012.

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• Raising the debt ceiling is not additional spending. It is simply saying, you, the United States of America, can continue to borrow the money you need to pay the bills you have already rung up.

  Jay Carney

  America, Pay, Bills

  Press Briefing by Press Secretary Jay Carney, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. August 4, 2011.

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• Most of the ancestors that I can trace were born here in the United States of America. And then it goes back to slavery. And I'm sure my ancestors go all the way back to Africa, but I feel more of an affinity for America than I do for Africa. I'm a black man in America.

  Herman Cain

  Men, America, Black

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• I honestly believe that there's an element in this country in our politics that does not want to see a businessman succeed at getting the nomination for the Republican Party and does not want me to succeed at becoming President of the United States of America.

  Herman Cain

  Country, Party, Believe

  "Cain: I don't remember Bialek" by Reid J. Epstein, www.politico.com. November 8, 2011.

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• Let me tell you what the Cain Doctrine would be, as it relates to Israel if I were president. You mess with Israel, you are messing with the United States of America!

  Herman Cain

  Israel, America, President

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• The United States of America will never be intimidated by thugs and assassins. The killers will fail, and the Iraqi people will live in freedom.

  George W. Bush

  Thug, America, People

  Third Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 20 January 2004

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• The preservation of our national security and the laws that define us as the United States of America demand that we understand the intersection of the two - indeed, how they reinforce one another.

  John O. Brennan

  Two, America, Law

  "Strengthening our Security by Adhering to our Values and Laws". John O. Brennan's Speech at Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. September 16, 2011.

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• This is not a battle between the United States of America and terrorism, but between the free and democratic world and terrorism.

  Tony Blair

  America, Battle, United States

  Statement, 11 Sept. 2001

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• There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.

  Otto von Bismarck

  Children, America, Political

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• In my fight against terrorism, to me, the biggest terrorist is Obama, and the United States of America.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Fighting, America, United States

  "Lupe Fiasco: Obama ‘The Biggest Terrorist’ (VIDEO)", www.huffingtonpost.com. June 8, 2011.

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• I love Obama, and I love the fact that it's a black president of the United States of America, but he's not the first black president. Robert Mugabe is a black president ,too, so let's not get to talking about precedents being set.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Talking, America, Black

  "Lupe Fiasco supports Barack Obama but says he's not first black president" by Alvin Blanco, www.mtv.com. March 9, 2011.

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