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• We are now at the point where we must decide whether we are to honour the concept of a plural society which gains strength through diversity, or whether we are to have bitter fragmentation that will result in perpetual tension and strife.

  Earl Warren

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• I shall enter on no encomium upon Massachussets; she needs none. There she is. Behold her, and judge for yourselves.

  Daniel Webster

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• The United States was born in the country and moved to the city in the nineteenth century.

  Unknown

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• If American men are obsessed with money, American women are obsessed with weight. The men talk of gain, the women talk of loss, and I do not know which talk is the more boring.

  Marya Mannes

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• It is rarely that you see an American writer who is not hopelessly sane.

  Margaret Anderson

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• Great physicians and nurses, skilled, caring and unparalleled in their training, intervened in my life and probably saved it. I was lucky but other Americans are not. It is time to speak again and stand again for the ideal that in the richest nation ever on this planet, it is wrong for 41 million Americans, most of them in working families, to worry at night and wake up in the morning without the basic protection of health insurance.

  John Kerry

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• So, we went from being an Athens band to being a Georgia band to being a Southern band to being an American band from the East Coast to being an American band and now we’re kind of an international phenomenon.

  Michael Stipe

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• So much promise stretches before us. Americans have always reached for the impossible, looked to the next horizon and asked, “What if?”

  John Kerry

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• I was in Europe and it was at this stage that I fell in love with Americans in uniform. And I continue to have that love affair.

  Madeleine Albright

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• I was a little girl in World War II and I’m used to being freed by Americans.

  Madeleine Albright

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• The American people are too well schooled in the duty and practice of submitting to the will of the majority to permit any serious uneasiness on that account.

  James Madison Jr

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• Americans have the right and advantage of being armed – unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.

  James Madison Jr

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• The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.

  James Madison Jr

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• The Constitution of the United States was created by the people of the United States composing the respective states, who alone had the right.

  James Madison Jr

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• American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.

  James Baldwin

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• The American girl makes a servant of her husband and then finds him contemptible for being a servant.

  John Steinbeck

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• The impulse of the American woman to geld her husband and castrate her sons is very strong.

  John Steinbeck

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• The difference between Democrats and Republicans is: Democrats have accepted some ideas of Socialism cheerfully, while Republicans have accepted them reluctantly.

  Norman Thomas

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• We Americans… bear the ark of liberties of the world.

  Mark Twain

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• Economics is a subject profoundly conducive to cliche, resonant with boredom. On few topics is an American audience so practiced in turning off its ears and minds. And none can say that the response is ill advised.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

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