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  This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Inspiring, Country, 4th Of July

  Theodore Roosevelt, Paul H. Jeffers (1998). “The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations”, p.63, Taylor Trade Publications

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• We should not have a tin cup out for something as important as the arts in this country, the richest in the world. Creative artists are always begging, but always being used when it's time to show us at our best.

  Leontyne Price

  Country, Art, Creative

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• The Civil War was fought in 10,000 places, from Valverde, New Mexico, and Tullahoma, Tennessee, to St. Albans, Vermont, and Fernandina on the Florida coast. More than 3 million Americans fought in it, and over 600,000 men, 2 percent of the population, died in it.

  Bruce Catton

  War, Fighting, Men

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  Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

  John Adams

  Bible, God, Religious

  John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1854). “Works: with a life of the author”, p.229

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• America is a country that doesn't know where it is going but is determined to set a speed record getting there.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Country, America, Progress

  Dr. Laurence J. Peter (2013). “Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times”, p.45, Harper Collins

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• On that terrible day, a nation became a neighborhood. All Americans became New Yorkers.

  George Pataki

  Bad Day, America, New Day

  "Pataki invokes 9/11 in Bush introduction". www.cnn.com. September 3, 2004.

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• Playing USA Softball has been more to me than I ever imagined possible.

  Jennie Finch

  Softball, Has Beens

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• Congress is furious at the Secret Service for consorting with hookers, which has traditionally been Congress's role.

  Andy Borowitz

  Funny, Comedian, Secret

  FaceBook post by Andy Borowitz from Apr 18, 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, America, Long

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

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• It would be some time before I fully realized that the United States sees little need for diplomacy; power is enough. Only the weak rely on diplomacy. The Roman Empire had no need for diplomacy. Nor does the United States.

  Boutros Boutros-Ghali

  War, Power, America

  "Unvanquished: A U.S. - U.N. Saga". Book by Boutros Boutros-Ghali, 1999.

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• You can't change Washington from the inside. You can only change it from the outside.

  Barack Obama

  Change, America, Political

  "Obama: 'You can't change Washington from the inside'". www.foxnews.com. September 21, 2012.

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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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• If it turns out that President Barack Obama can make a deal with the most intransigent, hard-line, unreasonable, totalitarian mullahs in the world but not with Republicans? Maybe he's not the problem.

  Jon Stewart

  Funny, America, Political

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• When fascism comes to the United States it will be wrapped in the American flag and will claim the name of 100-percent Americanism

  Sinclair Lewis

  Names, America, Flags

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• America’s founding ideal was the principle of individual rights. Nothing more-and nothing less. The rest-everything that America achieved, everything she became, everything 'noble and just,' and heroic, and great, and unprecedented in human history-was the logical consequence of fidelity to that one principle.

  Ayn Rand

  Rights, America, Achievement

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.37, Penguin

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• Why does the U.S. care which flag will be hoisted on a small piece of land thousands of miles away?

  Ron Paul

  Land, America, Political

  "Ron Paul: Crimea secedes. So what?". www.usatoday.com. March 17, 2014.

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• Funny that all of Nixon's crimes - anonymous campaign cash, wiretapping, undeclared wars - are all legal now. Discuss.

  Bill Maher

  War, Law, Justice

  Twitter post from Jun 13, 2013

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• On July 4 we celebrate government of the people, by the people, and for the people, or as they are now called, corporations.

  Andy Borowitz

  Funny, Anniversary, 4th Of July

  FaceBook post by Andy Borowitz from Jul 05, 2012

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• The rivalry is huge between South Carolina and Clemson. It's major bragging rights; one of the most intense things I've been a part of.

  William Perry

  Sports, Bragging Rights, America

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• Ours is the only country deliberately founded on a good idea.

  John Gunther

  Country, 4th Of July, Patriotic

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• There will be over 3,500 killed in USA today from abortion. No flags lowered, no presidents crying. No media hyperventilating. Normal day.

  Matt Drudge

  Children, Hypocrite, Media

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• Indeed, American companies make three times as much profits from their investment in one E.U. country, Ireland, than they do from all their investments in China.

  John Bruton

  Country, Three, Investment

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• He's confident. He knows what he's good at and he has people around him to help him. 
  (on Freddy Adu)

  Landon Donovan

  People, Helping, Knows

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• But there are important calls to both my personal life and professional endeavors about which I am excited to pursue, including projects and initiatives that directly and indirectly support USA Canoe/Kayak's mission. The goal is not to leave, but to create space in order to contribute more to national and international paddle sports objectives.

  Joe Jacobi

  Sports, Order, Space

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• When you understand that your tax dollars pay for those tear gas canisters that were being fired into the crowd, and when you see that, and to know that a little bit of your fingerprint, your American DNA is a part of that, as well as those stealth bombers and that bomb that's lodged in the side of the school that has "Made in USA" on it in Gaza, and all of the unmanned drones that are blowing up weddings and things of that nature, to know that you pay for that, you really have - you don't have to do it now, but you need to think about that.

  Lupe Fiasco

  School, Thinking, Dna

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. March 9, 2011.

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