~ America and Americans Quotes ~

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[highlight-text]The office of the president is such a bastardized thing half royalty and half democracy that nobody knows whether to genuflect or spit.

Jimmy Breslin

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[highlight-text]Let the word go forth from this time and place to friend and foe alike that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans.

John F. Kennedy

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[highlight-text]Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.

Woodrow Wilson

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[highlight-text]Our flag is red white and blue but our nation is a rainbow -- red yellow brown black and white -- and we're all precious in God's sight.

Jesse Jackson

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[highlight-text]The President spends most of his time kissing people on the cheek in order to get them to do what they ought to do without getting kissed.

Harry S. Truman

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[highlight-text]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

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[highlight-text]Ours is the country where in order to sell your product you don't so much point out its merits as you first work like hell to sell yourself.

Louis Kronenberger

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[highlight-text]The Constitution shall never be construed...to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.

Samuel Adams

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[highlight-text]After twenty annual visits I am still surprised each time I return to see this giant asparagus bed of alabaster and rose and green skyscrapers.

Cecil Beaton

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[highlight-text]If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time or die by suicide.

Abraham Lincoln

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[highlight-text]We know that equality of individual ability has never existed and never will but we do insist that equality of opportunity still must be sought.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

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[highlight-text]You say to your soldier 'Do this' and he does it. But I am obliged to say to the American 'This is why you ought to do this' and then he does it.

Baron von Steuben

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[highlight-text]It is by the goodness of God that in this country we have three benefits: freedom of speech freedom of thought and the wisdom never to use either.

Mark Twain

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[highlight-text]The government at Washington does live. It lives in the pages of our Constitution and in the hearts of our citizens and there it will always be safe.

Spiro T. Agnew

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[highlight-text]That enfabled rock that ship of life that swarming million-footed tower-masted sky-soaring citadel that bears the magic name of the Island of Manhattan.

Thomas Wolfe