America Quotes - Page 36

• America, the country of my heart, my second home.

  Ignacy Jan Paderewski

  Country, Home, Heart

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• I loved your country [America] before I knew it.

  Ignacy Jan Paderewski

  Country, I Loved You

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• Of all the hokum with which this country [America] is riddled, the most odd is the common notion that it is free of class distinctions.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Country, Class, Common

  W. Somerset Maugham (2011). “A Writer's Notebook”, p.232, Random House

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• Historian Larry Hise notes in his book Pro-Slavery that ministers 'wrote almost half of all defenses of slavery published in America.' He listed 275 men of the cloth who used the Bible to prove that white people were entitled to own black people as work animals.

  James A. Haught

  Book, Men, Animal

  James A. Haught (1990). “Holy horrors: an illustrated history of religious murder and madness”

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• We believe America is practicing all kinds of terrorism against Libya. Even the accusation that we are involved in terrorism is in itself an act of terrorism.

  Muammar al-Gaddafi

  Believe, Kind, Terrorism

  TIME Interview, content.time.com. June 8, 1981.

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• If it is an element of liberation for Latin America, I believe that it should have demonstrated that. Until now, I have not been aware of any such demonstration. The IMF performs an entirely different function: precisely that of ensuring that capital based outside of Latin America controls all of Latin America.

  Che Guevara

  Latin, Believe, Should Have

  Radio Rivadavia of Argentina Interview, November 03, 1959.

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• America is the only country in the world that classifies as Negro any person who has one drop of African blood in his or her veins.

  Edward Brooke

  Country, Blood, Veins

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• [M]y conception of liberty does not permit an individual citizen or a group of citizens to commit acts of depredation against nature in such a way as to harm their neighbors and especially to harm the future generations of Americans. If many years ago we had had the necessary knowledge, and especially the necessary willingness on the part of the Federal Government, we would have saved a sum, a sum of money which has cost the taxpayers of America two billion dollars.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Government, Years, Two

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• One of finest evocations of life in Western America in recent memory... Powerful and profoundly moving.

  William Kittredge

  Memories, Powerful, Moving

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• So, the Phoenix Suns are wearing jerseys written in Spanish, made in China, modeled after their best player, Canadian Steve Nash. There you go. That is America.

  Jay Leno

  Player, Phoenix, Jersey

  "Cnn Newsroom" with Kyra Phillips, www.cnn.com. May 6, 2010.

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• America's dumpsters should not be better fed than its people.

  Dan Glickman

  People, Should, Feds

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• I'M HOPEFUL, because I know that while we still have race issues in America, we enjoy a much different normal than those of our parents and grandparents. I see it in my personal relationships with teammates, friends and mentors. And it's a beautiful thing.

  Benjamin Watson

  Beautiful, Race, Issues

  Benjamin Watson (2015). “Under Our Skin: Getting Real about Race. Getting Free from the Fears and Frustrations that Divide Us.”, p.16, NavPress

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• Legislation needs a better reason than that lawyers like it, and that America does it.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Doe, Needs, Lawyer

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• In our efforts to battle terrorism and cyber attacks and biological weapons, all of us must be extremely aggressive. We must protect our people from danger and keep America safe and free.

  William J. Clinton

  Cyber Attacks, People, Effort

  "Clinton Warns Against Biological, Computer Attacks", www.cnn.com. May 22, 1998.

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• If America's tv and movie producers are unwilling to clean up their act... when it comes to sex, bloodshed and violence in their programming... the government stands ready to step in.

  Janet Reno

  Sex, Government, Violence

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• The genius of the tradition as it has developed in America is the unique combination of giving and voluntary service in behalf of independent organizations and institutions devoted to the public interest.

  Robert L. Payton

  Independent, Unique, Organization

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• The Americans have many virtues, but they have not Faith and Hope. I know no two words whose meaning is more lost sight of.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Faith, Hope, Sight

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.245

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• As long as our people quote English standards they dwarf their own proportions.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dwarves, Long, People

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.434, Harvard University Press

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• Let a man attain the highest and broadest culture that any American has possessed, then let him die by sea-storm, railroad collision, or other accident, and all America will acquiesce that the best thing has happened to him; that, after the education has gone far, such is the expensiveness of America, that the best use to put a fine person to is to drown him to save his board.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Sea, Storm

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.112, Harvard University Press

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• I remember the thought which occurred to me when some ingenious and spiritual foreigners came to America, was, Have you been victimized in being brought hither?--or, prior to that, answer me this, "Are you victimizable?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Spiritual, United States, Answers

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1458, Delphi Classics

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• I feel the happiest when I can light my American cigarettes with Soviet matches.

  Mohammed Daoud Khan

  Happiness, Light, Joy

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• More material progress has been made during the past one hundred and fifty years under the American system of business enterprise than during all the preceding centuries in world history. This record of achievement is a challenge to those who would radically change that system.

  Karl Taylor Compton

  Past, Years, Achievement

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• It is high time that the women of Republican America should know how much the laws that govern them are like the slave laws ofthe South.

  Harriot Kezia Hunt

  Law, Slavery, Republican

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• The Afro-American experience is the only real culture that America has. Basically, every American tries to walk, talk, dress and behave like African Americans.

  Hugh Masekela

  Real, Trying, Culture

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• United are more popular around the world. There is a difference and I can see that. Bayern Munich is a big club but United are bigger. When we [Bayern] were in China people knew us but Bayern were not so big in America.

  Bastian Schweinsteiger

  Differences, People, World

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