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"It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it."
-Mark Twain
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"England and America are two countries separated by a common language."
-George Bernard Shaw
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"We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate."
-Thomas Jefferson
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"America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between."
-Oscar Wilde
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"America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up."
-Oscar Wilde
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"Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected."
-Oscar Wilde
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"As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality."
-George Washington
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"Instead of fulfilling the promise of infinite orgasmic bliss, sex in the America of the feminine mystique is becoming a strangely joyless national compulsion, if not a contemptuous mockery."
-Betty Friedan
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"America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy."
-John Updike
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"America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses."
-Woodrow Wilson
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"America is not merely a nation but a nation of nations."
-Lyndon B. Johnson
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"There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America."
-Bill Clinton
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"America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense, it is the other way around. Human rights invented America."
-Jimmy Carter
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"All great change in America begins at the dinner table."
-Ronald Reagan
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"Our American values are not luxuries but necessities, not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. Our common vision of a free and just society is our greatest source of cohesion at home and strength abroad, greater than the bounty of our material blessings."
-Jimmy Carter
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"I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth."
-John Adams
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"I think the most un-American thing you can say is, 'You can't say that.'"
-Garrison Keillor
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"America will never run... And we will always be grateful that liberty has found such brave defenders."
-George W. Bush
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"America has never been united by blood or birth or soil. We are bound by ideals that move us beyond our backgrounds, lift us above our interests and teach us what it means to be citizens."
-George W. Bush
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"America has never been an empire. We may be the only great power in history that had the chance, and refused – preferring greatness to power and justice to glory."
-George W. Bush
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"America is therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the World's History shall reveal itself."
-Georg W. Hegel
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"I haven't, in the 23 years that I have been in the uniformed services of the United States of America, ever violated an order - not one."
-Oliver North
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"You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination."
-Charles de Gaulle
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"The American cemetery at Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer is a great lawn at the edge of the sea, white marble crosses and Stars of David against an open horizon. very American in the best sense: no phony piety, simple, easy."
-John Vinocur
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"We need to guarantee equal rights and civil rights and say that, here in America, workers have the right to organize - women have the right to choose - and justice belongs to everyone regardless of race or gender or sexual orientation."
-Senator John Kerry
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"I would like to do a part that would stretch me. In America it seems to me that you just take your clothes off and that helps, but I wouldn't want to do that."
-Courteney Cox
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"I'm proud to pay taxes in the United States; the only thing is, I could be just as proud for half the money."
-Arthur Godfrey
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"America's greatest strength, and its greatest weakness, is our belief in second chances, our belief that we can always start over, that things can be made better."
-Anthony Walton
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