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Quote	Author	Rating	Rate
"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
"On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does."	Will Rogers
"There is hardly a political question in the United States which does not sooner or later turn into a judicial one."	Alexis de Tocqueville
"In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them."	Alexis de Tocqueville
"The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first, the love of soft living and the get rich quick theory of life."	Theodore Roosevelt
"If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy."	James Madison
"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them."	Thomas Jefferson
"Americans learn only from catastrophe and not from experience."	Theodore Roosevelt
"To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public."	Theodore Roosevelt
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."	Abraham Lincoln
"Americans can always be counted on to do the right thing...after they have exhausted all other possibilities."	Winston Churchill
"The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money."	Alexis de Tocqueville
"Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty."	John F. Kennedy
"The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature."	Abraham Lincoln
"Over the years, the United States has sent many of its fine young men and women into great peril to fight for freedom beyond our borders. The only amount of land we have ever asked for in return is enough to bury those that did not return."	Colin Powell
"Our country offers the most wonderful example of democratic government on a giant scale that the world has ever seen; and the peoples of the world are watching to see whether we succeed or fail."	Theodore Roosevelt
"No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public."	Henry Mencken
"We dare not forget that we are the heirs of that first revolution."	John F. Kennedy
"Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected."	Oscar Wilde
"You give me a credit to which I have no claim in calling me 'the writer of the Constitution of the United States.' This was not, like the fabled Goddess of Wisdom, the offspring of a single brain. It ought to be regarded as the work of many heads and many hands."	James Madison

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