Author Topic: ~ America and Americans Quotes ~  (Read 13193 times)

Offline MysteRy

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« Reply #120 on: February 06, 2016, 10:37:35 AM »
[highlight-text]The British are just as keen to make money as the Americans but they prefer hypocrisy to a blatantly commercial attitude.

Wendy Michener

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« Reply #121 on: February 06, 2016, 10:38:11 AM »
[highlight-text]My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you but what together we can do for the freedom of man.

John F. Kennedy

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« Reply #122 on: February 06, 2016, 10:38:46 AM »
[highlight-text]What we need are critical lovers of America - patriots who express their faith in their country by working to improve it.

Hubert H. Humphrey

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« Reply #123 on: February 06, 2016, 10:39:17 AM »
[highlight-text]I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America but the business and administrative centre of American culture.

Saul Bellow

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« Reply #124 on: February 06, 2016, 10:39:59 AM »
[highlight-text]America is the first country to have gone from barbarism to decadence without the usual intervening period of civilization.

Oscar Wilde

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« Reply #125 on: February 06, 2016, 10:40:26 AM »
[highlight-text]Pennsylvania the state that has produced two great men: Benjamin Franklin of Massachusetts and Albert Gallatin of Switzerland.

John James Ingalls

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« Reply #126 on: February 06, 2016, 10:40:59 AM »
[highlight-text]America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

Abraham Lincoln

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« Reply #127 on: February 06, 2016, 10:41:47 AM »
[highlight-text]The Americans believe they answered all first questions in 1776: since then they've just been hammering out the practical details.

Ray Smith

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« Reply #128 on: February 06, 2016, 10:42:19 AM »
[highlight-text]Do you think we really needed Alaska and Hawaii? They gotta ruin everything. They ruined the continental United States. Ruined it!

Larry David

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« Reply #129 on: February 06, 2016, 10:42:54 AM »
[highlight-text]Today we can declare: Government is not the problem and government is not the solution. We the American people we are the solution.

Bill Clinton

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« Reply #130 on: February 06, 2016, 10:43:23 AM »
[highlight-text]It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate - to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.

Thomas Jefferson

Offline MysteRy

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« Reply #131 on: February 06, 2016, 10:43:51 AM »
[highlight-text](A country where) the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

Oscar Wilde

Offline MysteRy

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« Reply #132 on: February 06, 2016, 10:44:23 AM »
[highlight-text]And this is good old Boston The home of the bean and the cod - Where the Lowells talk to the Cabots And the Cabots talk only to God.

J. C. Bossidy

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« Reply #133 on: February 06, 2016, 10:45:35 AM »
[highlight-text]The central fact of North American history is that there were fifteen British Colonies before 1776. Thirteen rebelled and two did not.

June Callwood

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« Reply #134 on: February 06, 2016, 10:47:53 AM »
[highlight-text]A well-established village in New England or the northern Middle-West could afford a town drunkard a town atheist and a few Democrats.

D. W. Brogan