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• "One characteristic of Americans is that they have no tolerance at all of anybody putting up with anything. We believe that whatever is going wrong ought to be fixed."
  By: Margaret Mead
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• "Good Americans, when they die, go to Paris."
  By: Oliver Wendell Holmes
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• "The cement of this union is the heart-blood of every American."
  By: Thomas Jefferson
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• "Every man among us is more fit to meet the duties and responsibilities of citizenship because of the perils over which, in the past, the nation has triumphed; because of the blood and sweat and tears, the labor and the anguish, through which, in the days that have gone, our forefathers moved on to triumph."
  By: Theodore Roosevelt
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• "Races didn't bother the Americans. They were something a lot better than any race. They were a People. They were the first self-constituted, self-declared, self-created People in the history of the world. And their manners were their own business. And so were their politics. And so, but ten times so, were their souls."
  By: Archibald MacLeish
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• "America is another name for opportunity. Our whole history appears like a last effort of divine providence on behalf of the human race."
  By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• "When God made the oyster, he guaranteed his absolute economic and social security. He built the oyster a house, his shell, to shelter and protect him from his enemies.... But when God made the Eagle, He declared, "The blue sky is the limit-build your own house!"
  By: .... The Eagle, not the oyster, is the emblem of America.^Author Unknown
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• "I bet after seeing us, George Washington would sue us for calling him "father."
  By: Will Rogers
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• "For the American people are a very generous people and will forgive almost any weakness, with the possible exception of stupidity."
  By: Will Rogers
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• "The people of those foreign countries are very, very ignorant. They looked curiously at the costumes we had brought from the wilds of America. They observed that we talked loudly at table sometimes. They noticed that we looked out for expenses and got what we conveniently could out of a franc, and wondered where in the mischief we came from. In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language."
  By: Mark Twain
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• "I think very much of the people, as an old friend said he thought of woman. He said when he lost his first wife, who had been a great help to him in his business, he thought he was ruined-that he could never find another to fill her place. At length, however, he married another, who he found did quite as well as the first, and that his opinion now was that any woman would do well who was well done by. So I think of the whole people of this nation-they will ever do well if well done by. We will try to do well by them in all parts of the country, North and South, with entire confidence that all will be well with all of us."
  By: Abraham Lincoln
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• "My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over (On succeeding Richard M Nixon as president)."
  By: Gerald R. Ford
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• "As I rejected amnesty, so I reject revenge. I ask all Americans who ever asked for goodness and mercy in their lives, who ever sought forgiveness for their trespasses, to join in rehabilitating all the casualties of the tragic conflict of the past (On Americans who avoided conscription during the Vietnam War, to Veterans of Foreign Wars)."
  By: Gerald R. Ford
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• "An American tragedy in which we all have played a part (On Watergate, announcing pardon of former President Richard M Nixon)."
  By: Gerald R. Ford
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• "A coalition of groups ... is waging a massive propaganda campaign against the president of the United States. ... an all-out attack. Their aim is total victory for themselves and total defeat [for him] (On Watergate crisis)."
  By: Gerald R. Ford
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• "Divine right went out with the American Revolution and doesn't belong to the White House aides. What meat do they eat that makes them grow so great?"
  By: Sam(uel) James Ervin, Jr.
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