America Quotes

• "This is obviously an act of war that has been committed on the United States [referring to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon]."
  By: John McCain
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• "Quite frankly Ted, the very mention of the word 'Republican' seems to have negative connotations for the Americans in our studio."
  By: Frank Luntz
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• "You think America is the biggest place on Earth, but it's not. [The view from Mir] put everything in perspective."
  By: Shannon Lucid
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• "The American sign of civic progress is to tear down the familiar and erect the monstrous."
  By: Shane Leslie
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• "America shudders at anything alien, and when it wants to shut its mind against any man's ideas, it calls him a foreigner."
  By: Max Lerner
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• "Wherever I have gone in this country, I have found Americans."
  By: Alf Landon
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• "Support by United States rulers is rather in the nature of the support that the rope gives to a hanged man."
  By: Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev
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• "Has it [popular sovereignty] not got down as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by boiling the shadow of a pigeon that had starved to death?"
  By: Abraham Lincoln
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• "We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven. We have been preserved, these many years, in peace and prosperity. We have grown in numbers, wealth and power, as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us!"
  By: Abraham Lincoln
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• "If we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be impoverished (Proposal to reform welfare programs)."
  By: Richard Milhouse Nixon
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• "The 1976 Bicentennial is not going to be invented in Washington, printed in triplicate by the Government Printing Office [and] mailed to you by the United States Postal Service."
  By: Richard Milhouse Nixon
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• "Tonight-to you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans-I ask for your support (On his Vietnam War policy)."
  By: Richard Milhouse Nixon
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• "I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is opposed to every instinct in my body. But as president I must put the interests of America first ... Therefore, I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow."
  By: Richard Milhouse Nixon
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• "I let the American people down."
  By: Richard Milhouse Nixon
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• "My telephone calls and meetings and decisions were now parts of a prescribed ritual aimed at making peace with the past; his calls, his meetings and his decisions were already the ones that would shape America's future (On transfer of power to Gerald R Ford)."
  By: Richard Milhouse Nixon
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• "The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make us wonder at the possibility that there may be something to them -which- we are missing."
  By: Gamal Abdel Nasser
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