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• Most previous immigrants came to the United States to become Americans, with no intention of returning home. They relinquished their ties with their homeland. English was their key to prosperity, and they worked hard to master it.

  John Shadegg

  Home, Ties, Keys

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• If you need to put your money in a safe and secure place and you want it to earn interest, Treasury bonds are safer than putting it in any bank as a deposit or putting it anywhere else, because they are backed by the full faith and credit of the United States Government.

  Jim Cooper

  Ties, Government, Safe

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• Toil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are nevertheless united by a certain natural bond.

  Livy

  Ties, Toil, Pleasure

  "History of Rome". Book by Livy. Book V, section 4,

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• But thanks to the efforts, the initiative of the United States and of the several countries from the world, from Europe, including Turkey, it ended within a few weeks.

  Bulent Ecevit

  Country, Europe, Turkeys

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• A journey of four hundred and thirty miles can be made in any part of the United States, but in Turkey it takes as many days.

  Ellsworth Huntington

  Journey, Turkeys, United States

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• The United States and Turkey are the only two countries that don't have some kind of subsidy for the Arts. The whole culture in society has made certain films more acceptable. I turned down so many films in the '60s and '70s.

  Alex North

  Country, Art, Turkeys

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• We all read news stories about the difficulties and tensions that the United States has with our allies and even with coalition partners in Iraq, but we rarely read about the good news.

  Michael K. Simpson

  News Stories, Iraq, Allies

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• Whereas Iraq has consistently breached its cease-fire agreement between Iraq and the United States, entered into on March 3, 1991, by failing to dismantle its weapons of mass destruction program, and refusing to permit monitoring and verification by United Nations inspections; Whereas Iraq has developed weapons of mass destruction, including chemical and biological capabilities, and has made positive progress toward developing nuclear weapons capabilities

  Tom Harkin

  Agreement, Iraq, Fire

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• Iraq both poses a continuing threat to the national security of the United States and international peace and security in the Persian Gulf region and remains in material and unacceptable breach of its international obligations by, among other things, continuing to possess and develop a significant chemical and biological weapons capability, actively seeking a nuclear weapons capability, and supporting and harboring terrorist organizations.

  Hillary Clinton

  Wmd, Organization, Iraq

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• Your generous part in my liberation is taken by the world for the revelation of the fact, that the United States are resolved not to allow the despots of the world to trample on oppressed humanity.

  Lajos Kossuth

  Taken, Tyrants, Humanity

  Lajos Kossuth (1853). “Select speeches, condensed and abridged by F.W. Newman”, p.24

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• [T]he main evil of the present democratic institutions of the united states does not raise, as is often asserted in Europe, from their weakness, but from their irresistible strength. I am not so much alarmed at the excessive liberty which reigns in that country as at the inadequate securities which one finds there against tyranny.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Country, Europe, Evil

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• People who will not turn a shovel full of dirt on the project (Muscle Shoals Dam) nor contribute a pound of material, will collect more money from the United States than will the People who supply all the material and do all the work. This is the terrible thing about interest.

  Thomas A. Edison

  People, United States, Dams

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• To lay taxes to provide for the general welfare of the United States, that is to say, 'to lay taxes for the purpose of providing for the general welfare.' For the laying of taxes is the power, and the general welfare the purpose for which the power is to be exercised. They are not to lay taxes ad libitum for any purpose they please; but only to pay the debts or provide for the welfare of the Union.

  Thomas Jefferson

  United States, Purpose, Taxation

  Thomas Jefferson (1977). “The Portable Thomas Jefferson”, p.216, Penguin

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• Voices were heard from the United States of America which made it clear that America wanted a peaceful and united Europe as a basis for mutual cooperation.

  Gustav Stresemann

  Peace, Europe, Voice

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• Without the United States, there simply would not have been an armed uprising in our country.

  Daniel Ortega

  Country, Uprising, United States

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• I firmly believe that the Gandhian philosophy of nonviolent resistance is the only logical and moral approach to the solution of the race problem in the United States.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Philosophy, Believe, Equality

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• I'm afraid that the United States is more isolated today than at any other time in my memory.

  Brent Scowcroft

  Memories, Usa, United States

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• As we all know, no crude oil refineries have been built in the United States since 1976. During that time, close to 100 ethanol refineries have been built.

  John Shimkus

  Usa, Oil, United States

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• When Thurgood Marshall became a lawyer, race relations in the United States were particularly bad.

  Constance Baker Motley

  Race, Usa, United States

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• I would like to be the first ambassador to the United States from the United States.

  Barbara Mikulski

  Usa, United States, Ambassadors

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• God and the politicians willing, the United States can declare peace upon the world, and win it.

  Ely Culbertson

  Winning, Usa, United States

  Ely Culbertson (1946). “Must We Fight Russia?”, Philadelphia ; Toronto : John C. Winston

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• The United States Postal Service is the world's most efficient postal system.

  Diane Watson

  Usa, United States, World

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• Undoubtedly, there are numerous problems with the immigration system here in The United States.

  Corrine Brown

  Usa, Immigration, United States

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• The rate of population growth in the United States is slightly below that required to reproduce itself.

  Emanuel Celler

  Usa, Growth, United States

  Emanuel Celler (1953). “You Never Leave Brooklyn: The Autobiography of Emanuel Celler”

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• Well, I think the United States first of all has to recognize the world for what it is.

  Samuel P. Huntington

  Thinking, Usa, United States

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