Usa Quotes

• I feel that I am a citizen of the American dream and that the revolutionary struggle of which I am a part is a struggle against the American nightmare.

  Eldridge Cleaver

  Dream, Struggle, Citizens

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• We have the Bill of Rights. What we need is a Bill of Responsibilities.

  Bill Maher

  Funny, Responsibility, Rights

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• America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still.

  e. e. cummings

  Sarcastic, Mistake, Moving

  1927 'Why I Like America', in Vanity Fair, May.

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• What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Country, Sarcasm

  "Creative Leadership: Mining the Gold in Your Workforce". Book by A. S. Migs Damiani, p. 168, 1998.

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• Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Patriotic, Men, America

  Speech at Columbia University's bicentennial on May 31, 1954. "Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower". Book by Dwight D. Eisenhower, p. 524, 1961.

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• America is a mistake, a giant mistake.

  Sigmund Freud

  Mistake, America, Giants

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• My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Country

  Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1961

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• There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Funny, Real, Humorous

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• When the strongest nation in the world can be tied up for years in a war with no end in sight, when the richest nation in the world can't manage its own economy, when the nation with the greatest tradition of the rule of law is plagued by unprecedented lawlessness, and when the President of the United States cannot travel abroad or to any major city at home without fear of a hostile demonstration - then it's time for new leadership for the United States of America.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Leadership, War, Home

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• I love my country, not my government.

  Jesse Ventura

  Country, Patriotic, Government

  FaceBook post by Jesse Ventura from Jan 17, 2011

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• After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world.

  Calvin Coolidge

  People, Investing, World

  "The Press Under a Free Government". Address before the American Society of Newspaper Editors in Washington, archive.org. January 17, 1925.

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• Americans like fat books and thin women.

  Russell Baker

  Book, Moral, Manners

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• We cannot reform the world.... Uncle Sugar is as dangerous a role for us to play as Uncle Shylock.

  John F. Kennedy

  Uncles, Play, Reform

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• The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples.

  Walter Lippmann

  Travel, Adventure, America

  Walter Lippmann (1914). “A Preface to Politics”

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• 35 million people in the U.S. are hungry or don't know where their next meal is coming from, and 13 million of them are children. If another country were doing this to our children, we'd be at war.

  Jeff Bridges

  Country, Children, War

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• The worth of a child born and bred in Nigeria cannot be compared to that in the United States.

  Yakubu Gowon

  Children, United States, Born

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• I call the present system 'Post-Constitutional America.' As I sometimes put it, the U.S. Constitution poses no serious threat to our form of government.

  Joseph Sobran

  Government, America, Political

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• Did you hear that we're writing Iraq's new Constitution?
  Why not just give them ours? We're not using it anymore.

  Jay Leno

  Writing, Iraq, America

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• Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Xenophobia, Patriotic, America

  Remarks before Daughters of the American Revolution Convention, Washington, D.C., 21 Apr. 1938. Often paraphrased as Roosevelt's addressing the DAR as "my fellow immigrants."

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• America's founding Ideal was the principle of individual rights. Nothing more - and nothing less.

  Ayn Rand

  Rights, America, Political

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

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• Dear America, I suppose we should introduce ourselves: We're South Louisiana...You probably already know that we talk funny and listen to strange music and eat things you'd probably hire an exterminator to get out of your yard. We dance even if there's no radio. We drink at funerals. We talk too much and laugh too loud and live too large and, frankly, we're suspicious of others who don't.

  Chris Rose

  Funny, Humorous, America

  "1 Dead in Attic: After Katrina". Book by Chris Rose, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2005.

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• It can not be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians, not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ!

  Unknown

  Bible, God, Education

  Patrick Henry (2007). “Patrick Henry in his speeches and writings and in the words of his contemporaries”, Warwick House Publishing

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• Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom of Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any band of regular troops that can be, on any pretence, raised in the United States.

  Noah Webster

  Army, Gun, Power

  Noah Webster (1787). “An Examination Into the Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution Proposed by the Late Convention Held at Philadelphia: With Answers to the Principal Objections that Have Been Raised Against the System”, p.43

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• I really do think that if for one week in the United States we saw the true face of war, we saw people's limbs sheared off, we saw kids blown apart, for one week, war would be eradicated. Instead, what we see in the U.S. media is the video war game.

  Amy Goodman

  War, Kids, Thinking

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  Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.

  John Steinbeck

  Roots, America, Political

  Attributed in "A Short History of Progress" by Ronald Wright, Toronto: Anansi Press, (pp. 124), 2004.

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