United States Quotes - Page 14

• The Christian Constitutional Society, its object is first: The support of the Christian religion. Second: The support of the United States.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Christian, Support, Firsts

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• Son--they say there isn't any royalty in this country, but do you want me to tell you how to be king of the United States of America? Just fall through the hole in a privy and come out smelling like a rose.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Country, Kings, Fall

  Kurt Vonnegut (2007). “The Sirens of Titan”, p.62, Dial Press

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• America -- rather, the United States -- seems to me to be the Jew among the nations. It is resourceful, adaptable, maligned, envied, feared, imposed upon. It is warm-hearted, over-friendly; quick-witted, lavish, colorful; given to extravagant speech and gestures; its people are travelers and wanderers by nature, moving, shifting, restless; swarming in Fords, in ocean liners; craving entertainment; volatile. The chuckle among the nations of the world.

  Edna Ferber

  Ocean, Moving, America

  Edna Ferber (1939). “A Peculiar Treasure”

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• The particular phraseology of the Constitution of the United States confirms and strengthens the principle, supposed to be essential to all written constitutions, that a law repugnant to the Constitution is void; and that courts, as well as other departments, are bound by that instrument.

  John Marshall

  Law, Void, Principles

  John Marshall (2005). “The Political and Economic Doctrines of John Marshall”, p.340, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

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• Among the features peculiar to the political system of the United States is the perfect equality of rights which it secures to every religious sect. [...] Equal laws protecting equal rights, are found as they ought to be presumed, the best guarantee of loyalty, and love of country; as well as best calculated to cherish that mutual respect and good will among citizens of every religious denomination which are necessary to social harmony and most favorable to the advancement of truth.

  James Madison

  Loyalty, Country, Religious

  Letter to Jacob De La Motta, printed in "Letters and Other Writings of James Madison, vol. 3" (1867), August 1820.

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• No nation, savage or civilized, save only the United States  of America, has confessed its inability to protect its women save by hanging, shooting, and burning alleged offenders

  Ida B. Wells

  Women, Lynching, America

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• It now remains for the United States government to set a sensible example to the
  world by offering a bonus or a yearly pension to all obviously unfit parents who allow
  themselves to be sterilized by harmless and scientific means.

  Margaret Sanger

  Mean, Government, Offering

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• God always looks after the fools and — and the United States.

  Otto von Bismarck

  Looks, Fool, States

  "The Campaign of Santiago de Cuba". Book by Herbert Howland Sargent, Volume 1, p. 105, 1907.

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• He obtained from Congress the right to borrow from the people by selling to it the 'bonds' of States ... and the Government and the nation escaped the plots of the foreign financiers. They understood at once, that the United States would escape their grip. The death of Lincoln was resolved upon.

  Otto von Bismarck

  Government, People, Plot

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• Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty. Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States.

  Ronald Reagan

  Men, Entrepreneur, Growth

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• In those countries where income taxes are lower than in the United States, the ability to defer the payment of U.S. tax by retaining income in the subsidiary companies provides a tax advantage for companies operating through overseas subsidiaries that is not available to companies operating solely in the United States. Many American investors properly made use of this deferral in the conduct of their foreign investment.

  John F. Kennedy

  Country, Income, Use

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• I'm President of the United States, and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli!

  George H. W. Bush

  Vegetables, Funny Mothers Day, President

  George H.W. Bush (2009). “Speaking of Freedom: The Collected Speeches”, p.101, Simon and Schuster

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• Our ages ranged from 22, down to 18, and we had a 6 month contract to go to Bogata, Columbia. And of course, it was during the depression, we were still with our parents, and things were still pretty tough on them back in the United States.

  Martin Denny

  Parent, Age, Months

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• The United States must get a taste of its own poison.

  Saddam Hussein

  Poison, Hussein, Taste

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• The Devil is right at home. The Devil, the Devil himself, is right in the house. And the Devil came here yesterday. Yesterday the Devil came here. Right here. And it smells of sulphur still today. Yesterday, ladies and gentlemen, from this rostrum, the president of the United States, the gentleman to whom I refer as the Devil, came here, talking as if he owned the world. Truly. As the owner of the world.

  Hugo Chavez

  Home, Talking, Smell

  Address to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 20 September 2006

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• We've arrived at a point where the President of the United States is going to lead a war on traditional marriage.

  Rush Limbaugh

  War, Stupid, President

  "Rush Limbaugh: Obama Leading ‘A War On Traditional Marriage’" By Jack Mirkinson, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 10, 2012.

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• Do you know we have more acreage of forest land in the United States today than we did at the time the Constitution was written?

  Rush Limbaugh

  Stupid, Land, Today

  "The Rush Limbaugh Show", February 18, 1994.

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• I talked about the need for American leadership, I talked about the importance of the United States to a more peaceful world, a world that has been quite turbulent in recent years, and needs a strong American anchor.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Strong, Years, Anchors

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• The United States has done more for the war crimes tribunal than any other country in the world. We're turning over all the information we have, including intelligence information.

  Warren Christopher

  Country, War, Done

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• Persisting social crisis, the emergence of a charismatic personality, and the exploitation of mass media to obtain public confidence would be the steppingstones in the piecemeal transformation of the United States into a highly controlled society.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Media, Personality, Would Be

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• As president of the United States, my top priority will be to keep America safe. We're going to go after the terrorist networks. We're going to go after Osama bin Laden. We are not going to live in fear in this country.

  Wesley Clark

  Country, America, Priorities

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• There's no question that Saddam Hussein is a threat Yes, he has chemical and biological weapons. He's had those for a long time. But the United States right now is on a very much different defensive posture than we were before September 11th of 2001 He is, as far as we know, actively pursuing nuclear capabilities, though he doesn't have nuclear warheads yet. If he were to acquire nuclear weapons, I think our friends in the region would face greatly increased risks as would we.

  Wesley Clark

  Thinking, Wmd, Long

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• Furthermore, the unearned increment from land appears in the United States as a gain to the first comers, who have here laid the foundations of a new State.

  William Graham Sumner

  Land, Foundation, Gains

  William Graham Sumner (1903). “What Social Classes Owe to Each Other”, p.43, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States.

  George Soros

  Order, World, Obstacles

  George Soros (2007). “Age of Fallibility: Consequences of the War on Terror”, p.16, PublicAffairs

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• The Nazis learned their propaganda from the progressive movement in the United States.

  Glenn Beck

  Movement, Progressive, Propaganda

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