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"The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes."
Calvin Coolidge
"The greatness of our country has been based on our thinking that everyone has a right even to be wrong."
Ronald Reagan
"The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer."
Henry Kissinger
"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
"The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through."
Alexis de Tocqueville
"The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands."
George W. Bush
"The thing we all have to understand to put these last two years in focus, is that liberals in this country care more about whether European leaders like us than they do about whether terrorists are killing us."
Rush Limbaugh
"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
"The United States is in no sense founded upon the Christian doctrine."
George Washington
"The United States is the only country with a known birthday."
James G. Blaine
"The United States stands at the pinnacle of world power. This is a solemn moment for the American democracy. For with primacy in power is joined an awe-inspiring accountability for the future."
Winston Churchill
"The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles."
Henry Kissinger
"The whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance, a revolutionary crisis, or a battle."
Alexis de Tocqueville
"The women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776."
Susan B. Anthony
"There is hardly a political question in the United States which does not sooner or later turn into a judicial one."
Alexis de Tocqueville
"There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong."
GK Chesterton
"There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America."
Bill Clinton
"This country was built on rape, slavery, murder, degradation and affiliation with crime."
Mike Tyson
"This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in."
Theodore Roosevelt
"This is a Christian nation."
Harry Truman
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