America Quotes

• "Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between Church and State."
  By: Thomas Jefferson
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• "America is not like a blanket-one piece of unbroken cloth, the same color, the same texture, the same size. America is more like a quilt-many patches, many pieces, many colors, many sizes, all woven and held together by a common thread."
  By: Jesse Louis Jackson
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• "America is not like a blanket -- one piece of unbroken cloth, the same color, the same texture, the same size. America is more like a quilt -- many patches, many pieces, many colors, many sizes, all woven and held together by a common thread."
  By: Henry M. Jackson
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• "Americans have the will to resist because you have weapons. If you don't have a gun, freedom of speech has no power."
  By: Yoshimi Ishikawa
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• "It has been said that we have not had the three R's in America, we had the six R's: remedial readin', remedial 'ritin' and remedial 'rithmetic."
  By: Robert Maynard Hutchins
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• "Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of the citizens to keep and bear arms. This is not to say that firearms should not be carefully used and that definite safety rules of precaution should not be taught and enforced. But the right of the citizens to bear arms is just one guarantee against arbitrary government and one more safeguard against a tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible."
  By: Hubert H. Humphrey
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• "I express many absurd opinions, but I am not the first man to do it; American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense."
  By: Edgar Watson Howe
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• "There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing."
  By: Herbert Clark Hoover
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• "[America is] still the best country for the common man -- white or black ... if he can't make it here he won't make it anywhere else."
  By: Eric Hoffer
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• "The United States has the power to destroy the world, but not the power to save it alone."
  By: Margaret Mead
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• "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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