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"In the United States the majority undertakes to supply a multitude of ready-made opinions for the use of individuals, who are thus relieved from the necessity of forming opinions of their own."
Alexis de Tocqueville
"In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell."
Henry Mencken
"In this country we have no place for hyphenated Americans."
Theodore Roosevelt
"It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ.For this very reason peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here."
Patrick Henry
"It is by the goodness of God that, in this country, we have three benefits: freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and the wisdom never to use either."
Mark Twain
"It is not what we have that will make us a great nation; it is the way in which we use it."
Theodore Roosevelt
"It is our true policy to steer clear of any permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world."
George Washington
"It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate - to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance."
Thomas Jefferson
"It was by the sober sense of our citizens that we were safely and steadily conducted from monarchy to republicanism, and it is by the same agency alone we can be kept from falling back."
Thomas Jefferson
"It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union... Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less."
Susan B. Anthony
"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
"Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans."
John F. Kennedy
"My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth."
Abraham Lincoln
"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."
John F. Kennedy
"No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public."
Henry Mencken
"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
"Only Americans can hurt America."
Dwight Eisenhower
"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
"Our destiny is bound up with the destiny of every other American."
Bill Clinton
"Our flag is red, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbow -- red, yellow, brown, black and white -- and we're all precious in God's sight."
Jesse Jackson
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