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Presidency (34)

Quote	Author	Rating	Rate
"A Galileo could no more be elected president of the United States than he could be elected Pope of Rome. Both high posts are reserved for men favored by God with an extraordinary genius for swathing the bitter facts of life in bandages of self-illusion."	Henry Mencken
"America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense...human rights invented America."	Jimmy Carter
"America is a country that doesn't know where it is going but is determined to set a speed record getting there."	Laurence Peter
"America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation."	Laurence Peter
"America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair."	Arnold Toynbee
"America is a mistake, a giant mistake."	Sigmund Freud
"America is a nation with many flaws, but hopes so vast that only the cowardly would refuse to acknowledge them."	James Michener
"America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy."	John Updike
"America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people."	Gloria Steinem
"America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great."	Alexis de Tocqueville
"America is much more than a geographical fact. It is a political and moral fact - the first community in which men set out in principle to institutionalize freedom, responsible government, and human equality."	Adlai Stevenson
"America is no stronger than its people - and that means you and me. Well, I believe in you, and I believe that if we work together then one day we will say, ``We fought the good fight. We finished the race We kept the faith.'' And to our children and our children's children we can say, ``We did all that could be done in the brief time that was given to us here on earth."	Ronald Reagan
"America is not like a blanket: one piece of unbroken cloth, the same color, the same texture, the same size. America is more like a quilt: many patches, many pieces, many colors, many sizes, all woven and held together by a common thread."	Jesse Jackson
"America is the first country to have gone from barbarism to decadence without the usual intervening period of civilization."	Oscar Wilde
"America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success."	Sigmund Freud
"America is the only country ever founded on a creed."	GK Chesterton
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."	Abraham Lincoln
"America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our people."	George W. Bush
"America...just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable."	Hunter S. Thompson
"Americans are so enamored of equality, they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom."	Alexis de Tocqueville

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