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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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• Look, we understood we couldn't make it illegal to be young or poor or black in the United States, but we could criminalize their common pleasure. We understood that drugs were not the health problem we were making them out to be, but it was such a perfect issue for the Nixon White House that we couldn't resist it.

  John Ehrlichman

  Health, White, America

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• I'm convinced that today the majority of Americans want what those first Americans wanted: A better life for themselves and their children; a minimum of government authority.

  Ronald Reagan

  Children, Good Life, Happy Life

  Ronald Reagan (1983). “A Time for Choosing: The Speeches of Ronald Reagan, 1961-1982”, Gateway Books

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• Any politician who can be elected only by turning Americans against other Americans is too dangerous to be elected.

  Thomas Sowell

  America, Political, Voting

  Thomas Sowell (2002). “Controversial Essays”, Hoover Inst Press

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I am currently talking to one of the studios about making American Star as a TV series.

  Jackie Collins

  Stars, Talking, Tvs

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• Visit USA.gov and you'll find thousands of directorates, agencies, boards, offices, and services replete with overlapping responsibilities, ancient priorities, and divided accountability.

  Lou Gerstner

  Responsibility, Agency, Office

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• I never thought I'd say this, what Obama needs in his personality is a little George Bush.

  Bill Maher

  Personality, Needs, Littles

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• The debt they ran up in the first year of the Obama administration is bigger than the last four years of the Bush combined.

  Mitch McConnell

  Years, Debt, Four

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