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Quote	Author	Rating	Rate
"Americans can always be counted on to do the right thing...after they have exhausted all other possibilities."	Winston Churchill
"Americans learn only from catastrophe and not from experience."	Theodore Roosevelt
"Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can."	Samuel Adams
"Born often under another sky, placed in the middle of an always moving scene, himself driven by the irresistible torrent which draws all about him, the American has no time to tie himself to anything, he grows accustomed only to change, and ends by regarding it as the natural state of man. He feels the need of it, more he loves it; for the instability; instead of meaning disaster to him, seems to give birth only to miracles all about him."	Alexis de Tocqueville
"California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn't really need. You can quote me on that."	Saul Bellow
"Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy."	Jesse Jackson
"Driven from every other corner of the earth, freedom of thought and the right of private judgment in matters of conscience direct their course to this happy country as their last resort."	Samuel Adams
"Four years ago, some said the world had grown calm, and many assumed that the United States was invulnerable to danger. That thought might have been comforting; it was also false. Like other generations of Americans, we soon discovered that history had great and unexpected duties in store for us."	Dick Cheney
"Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions."	Daniel Webster
"I am well aware of the toil and blood and treasure that it will cost to maintain this Declaration, and support and defend these States. Yet through all the gloom I can see the rays of ravishing light and glory. I can see that the end is worth more than the means."	John Adams
"I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free."	Abraham Lincoln
"I deplore the need or the use of troops anywhere to get American citizens to obey the orders of constituted courts."	Dwight Eisenhower
"I don't intellectually understand you people. I don't understand your hate, I don't understand your rage, I don't understand what it is about the goodness of this country you can't abide."	Rush Limbaugh
"I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem-and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?"	Dwight Eisenhower
"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
"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
"If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate."	Oliver Wendell Holmes
"If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy."	James Madison
"If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a Nation gone under."	Ronald Reagan
"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

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