United States Quotes - Page 34

• When Caroline Walker fell in love with Julian English she was a little tired of him. That was in the summer of 1926, one of the most unimportant years in the history of the United States, and the year in which Caroline Walker was sure her life had reached a pinnacle of uselessness.

  John O'Hara

  Summer, Tired, Years

  John O'Hara (2013). “Appointment in Samarra: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.79, Penguin

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• The time will come when we will be obliged to depend upon our own resources; for the time is not far distant when the curtain will be dropped between us and the United States. When the time comes, brethren and sisters, you will wish you had commenced sooner to make your own clothing. I tell you, God requires us to go into home manufacture; and, prolong it as much as you like, you have got to do it.

  Heber C. Kimball

  Home, Wish, Like You

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• Afghanistan will, by the grace of God, stand on its own feet in three to four years time. Until then, of course, we need strong support from the international community, including the United States, to stay with us and support us fully.

  Hamid Karzai

  Strong, Years, Feet

  "Afghan leader to U.S.: 'Stay with us'" by Sean Loughlin, www.cnn.com. February 27, 2003.

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• The most successful revolutions aren't those that are celebrated with parades and banners, drums and trumpets, cannons and fireworks. The really successful revolutions are those that occur quietly, unnoticed, uncommemorated. We don't celebrate the day the United States Constitution was destroyed; it didn't happen on a specific date, and most Americans still don't realize it happened at all. We don't say the Constitution has ceased to exist; we merely say that it's a 'living document.' But it amounts to the same thing.

  Joseph Sobran

  Successful, Revolution, Constitution

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• I wanted to show the history and strength of all kinds of black women. Working women, country women, urban women, great women in the history of the United States.

  Elizabeth Catlett

  Country, Black, Urban

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• The United States, which would live on Christian principles with all of the peoples of the world, cannot omit a fair deal for its own Indian citizens.

  Harry S. Truman

  Christian, Citizens, World

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• It is the fundamental right of every American, as guaranteed by the first amendment of the Constitution, to worship as he or she pleases... This legislation sets forth the policy of the United States to protect and preserve the inherent right of American Indian, Eskimo, Aleut, and Native Hawaiian people to believe, express, and exercise their traditional religions

  Jimmy Carter

  Believe, Exercise, People

  United States. President (1977-1981 : Carter), Jimmy Carter (1979). “Jimmy Carter”

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• What our leaders and pundits never let slip is that the terrorists-whatever else they might be-might also be rational human beings ; which is to say that in their own minds they have a rational justification for their actions. Most terrorists are people deeply concerned by what they see as social, political, or religious injustice and hypocrisy, and the immediate grounds for their terrorism is often retaliation for an action of the United States.

  William Blum

  Religious, People, Hypocrisy

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• Credible reporting indicates that Al Qaeda is moving forward with its plans to carry out a large-scale attack in the United States in an effort to disrupt our democratic process.

  Tom Ridge

  Moving, Effort, Als

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• By ending the Hussein regime, the United States has taken away yet another incubator of terrorism.

  Jim Gerlach

  Taken, Hussein, Terrorism

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• I admire President Chavez for his strength to resist the United States. Instead, Bush is waging a war of terrorism against the world.

  Cindy Sheehan

  War, President, World

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• As long as there are people who are not happy with their lot in life, as long as the United States is perceived to somehow be the cause of this unhappiness, there will be terrorism.

  Cofer Black

  America, Long, People

  Cofer Black during September 11 Commission Hearing, www.washingtonpost.com. April 14, 2004.

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• The American people expect the United States to keep terrorists where they belong, apart from civilized society and outside of America's borders

  Eric Cantor

  America, People, Borders

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• As we have seen, the wireless and the airplane have made the world so small and nations so dependent on each other that the only alternative to war is the United States of the World.

  John Boyd Orr

  War, Airplane, Alternatives

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• By the end of this decade, a majority of our Navy and Air Force fleets will be based out of the Pacific, because the United States is and always will be a Pacific power.

  Barack Obama

  Memorable, Air, Navy

  Remarks by President Obama at the University of Queensland, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. November 15, 2014.

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• No future historian of the United States will be able to use quotations from her twentieth-century poets in support of an imperial policy of conquest and slaughter.

  Alice Corbin Henderson

  War, Support, Use

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• I would say that there is no future for literary studies as such in the United States.

  Harold Bloom

  Study, States, United

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• Well, I mean, the real attack on truth is tabloid journalism in the United States.

  Julian Assange

  Mean Girls, Real, Tabloids

  "WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange on Iraq War Logs, "Tabloid Journalism" and Why WikiLeaks Is "Under Siege"". Interview with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. October 26, 2010.

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• I believe that we are at the point now, in the United States, where a movement is beginning to emerge.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  Believe, Movement, World

  Interview with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. June 15, 2007.

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• I've always been called a professional opportunist, and in the future I'm open to anything. We've spent a lot of time offshore, looking at opportunities in real estate outside the United States.

  Sam Zell

  Real, Opportunity, Opportunist

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• ...the proposed air force and army experiments were designed so that many animals would suffer and die without any certainty that this suffering and death would save a single human life or benefit humans in any way at all; but the same can be said of millions of their experiments performed each year in the United States alone.

  Peter Singer

  Army, Animal, Years

  Peter Singer (1975). “Animal liberation: a new ethics for our treatment of animals”

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• One year after the United States led the invasion of Iraq, the country remains extremely dangerous not only to our troops, but also to the stability of the world.

  Jay Rockefeller

  Country, Years, Iraq

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• All these people talk so eloquently about getting back to good old-fashioned values. Well, as an old poop I can remember back to when we had those old-fashioned values, and I say let's get back to the good old-fashioned First Amendment of the good old-fashioned Constitution of the United States - and to hell with the censors! Give me knowledge or give me death!

  Kurt Vonnegut

  People, Giving, Atheism

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• We may disagree about gay marriage, but surely we can agree that it is unconscionable to target gays and lesbians for who they are - whether it's here in the United States or, as Hillary (Clinton) mentioned, more extremely in odious laws that are being proposed most recently in Uganda.

  Barack Obama

  Gay, Uganda, Law

  "In His Own Words: President Obama's Nuanced View on Gay Marriage". Remarks by the President Obama at the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington DC, www.foxnews.com. February 4, 2010.

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• Every ISP is being attacked, maliciously both from in the United States and outside of the United States, by those who want to invade people's privacy. But more importantly they want to take control of computers, they want to hack them, they want to steal information.

  Darrell Issa

  People, Want, Information

  Speech at the House Judiciary hearing, www.cnet.com. April 24, 2008.

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