America Quotes

• "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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• "The real 196s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963....It came to seem that Kennedy's murder opened some malign trap door in American culture, and the wild bats flapped out."
  By: Lance Morrow
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• "America: Where a man can say what he thinks, if he isn't afraid of his wife, his boss, his customer, his neighbors, or the government."
  By: Joe Moore
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• "[The] American temptation [is] to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry."
  By: Robert Francis Kennedy
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• "The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. ... The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission (Announcing blockade of Cuba)."
  By: John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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• "And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you -- ask what you can do for your country. 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."
  By: John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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