United States Quotes - Page 22

• After forty years of intensive research on school learning in the United States as well as abroad, my major conclusion is: What any person in the world can learn, almost all persons can learn if provided with appropriate prior and current conditions of learning.

  Benjamin Bloom

  School, Years, World

  Benjamin Samuel Bloom, Lauren A. Sosniak (1985). “Developing talent in young people”

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• Finally it should be the earnest wish and paramount aim of the military administration to win the confidence, respect, and affection of the inhabitants of the Philippines by assuring them in every possible way that full measure of individual rights and liberties which is the heritage of free peoples, and by proving to them that the mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation substituting the mild sway of justice and right for arbitrary rule.

  William McKinley

  Military, Winning, Rights

  McKinley's Benevolent Assimilation Proclamation, December 21, 1898.

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• He who takes the oath today to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States only assumes the solemn obligation which every patriotic citizen . . . should share with him. . . . Your every voter, as surely as your Chief Magistrate, under the same high sanction, though in a different sphere, exercises a public trust.

  Grover Cleveland

  Patriotic, Exercise, Different

  Grover Cleveland, United States. President (1885-1889 : Cleveland), United States. President (1893-1897 : Cleveland) (1968). “Grover Cleveland, 1837-1908: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”

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• I think clearly the United States, as well as other western nations, should stand by their commitments to human rights and democracy and should try to influence other countries to move in that direction.

  Samuel P. Huntington

  Country, Moving, Commitment

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• My deepest regret from my years in public service is the failure of the United States and the international community to act sooner to halt these crimes.

  Madeleine Albright

  Regret, Years, Community

  "Madam Secretary". Book by Madeleine Albright, en.wikiquote.org. 2003.

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• We had 10 years after the Cold War to build a new world order and yet we squandered them. The United States cannot tolerate anyone acting independently. Every US president has to have a war.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  War, Order, Years

  "Gorbachev: US Could Start New Cold War" by Adrian Blomfield and Mike Smith, www.telegraph.co.uk. May 06, 2008.

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• 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 Gorbachev

  Cutting, America, People

  Time magazine, September 09, 1985.

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• Without good grammar, the United States would have lost World War II.

  Dave Barry

  War, World, Grammar

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• I am not ashamed to be a Christian, and I am glad to know that the President of the United States is a Christian, for without the help of the Almighty I do not think he could rightly judge in ruling so many people. I have advised all of my people who are not Christians, to study that religion, because it seems to me the best religion in enabling one to live right.

  Geronimo

  Christian, Thinking, People

  Geronimo (2010). “My Life: The Autobiography of Geronimo”, p.153, Fireship Press

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• If the United States is to protect itself from the economic and the political threats created by this excessive dependence, we must reduce our reliance on foreign energy sources and on foreign oil as quickly and as efficiently as possible.

  John Shadegg

  Oil, Political, Energy

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• More than one-third of Mexicans in the United States own property in Mexico, nearly 80 percent send money home and 25 percent have a spouse in Mexico. Assimilation and becoming an American citizen are not the objective for many of them.

  John Shadegg

  Home, Citizens, Mexico

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• What we have in the United States is not so much a health-care system as a disease-care system.

  Edward Kennedy

  Care, Disease, Politics

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• A lot of the work in United States is highly critical of technology. I'm using 15,000 watts of power and 18 different pieces of electronic equipment to say that.

  Laurie Anderson

  Technology, Different, Pieces

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• In fact, street gangs are the primary distributor of illegal drugs in the United States.

  Dave Reichert

  Drug, Facts, Gang

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• Canadians look down on the United States and consider it Hell. They are right to do so. Canada is to the United States what, in Dante's scheme, Limbo is to Hell

  Irving Layton

  Usa, Looks, Canada

  Irving Layton (1969). “The whole bloody bird: obs, aphs & pomes”

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• There are an awful lot of people who despise government precisely because it opened the door for common citizenship for people of all races and all natures in the United States.

  Taylor Branch

  Doors, Race, Government

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. March 22, 2013.

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• When asked to make the formal declaration that I did not intend to overthrow the Constitution of the United States, I was fool enough to reply that I had no such purpose, but that were I to do it by mistake I should be inexpressibly contrite.

  Peter Medawar

  Mistake, Constitution Of The United States, Purpose

  "Memoir of a thinking radish: an autobiography". Book by Peter Medawar, Oxford University Press, p. 117, 1986.

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• I am encouraged by the news today that United States special operations personnel found, identified and killed the terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the operational commander of the al-Qaeda led insurgency in Iraq. Al-Zarqawi was the public face of the insurgency.

  Mike Fitzpatrick

  Iraq, Special, News

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• We're talking about a militant terrorist situation, which I believe it isn't a widespread thing, but it is enough that we need to address, and we have been addressing it. My thoughts are these, first of all, Dearborn, Michigan, and Frankford, Texas are on American soil, and under constitutional law. Not Sharia law. And I don't know how that happened in the United States. It seems to me there is something fundamentally wrong with allowing a foreign system of law to even take hold in any municipality or government situation in our United States.

  Sharron Angle

  Believe, Government, Texas

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• If the U.S. monopoly capitalist groups persist in pushing their policies of aggression and war, the day is bound to come when they will be hanged by the people of the whole world. The same fate awaits the accomplices of the United States.

  Mao Zedong

  War, Fate, People

  "Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong (The Little Red Book)" by Mao Zedong, Ch. 6, 1964.

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• We do not have an outbreak of Ebola in the United States. Nowhere. We do have two health care workers who contracted the disease from a dying man. They are isolated. There is no information to suggest that the virus has spread to anyone in the general population in America. Not one person in the general population in the United States.

  Shepard Smith

  Men, Ebola, Two

  "Smith: Ebola panic 'not worth the ratings'" by Hadas Gold, www.politico.com. October 15, 2014.

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• Africa can and will only advance through African integration, which can be realized through the Federal United States of Africa

  Cheikh Anta Diop

  States, Integration, United

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• This is the United States of America and it's always a busy time.

  Jean Schmidt

  America, Busy, States

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• The history of other cultures is non-existent until it erupts in confrontation with the United States.

  Edward Said

  Other Cultures, Confrontation, Culture

  "Culture and Imperialism". Book by Edward Said, Chap 4, Sect 2, 1993.

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• Having therefore no foreign establishments, either colonial or military, the ships of war of the United States, in war, will be like land birds, unable to fly far from their own shores. To provide resting places for them, where they can coal and repair, would be one of the first duties of a government proposing to itself the development of the power of the nation at sea.

  Alfred Thayer Mahan

  Military, War, Government

  Alfred Thayer Mahan (2010). “Sea Power and World History: 1660-1783”, p.48, Fireship Press

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