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Abraham Lincoln America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
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Adlai Stevenson When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies glistening in the sun, the wide and rising plains, the great mountains, and the sea.
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Alexis de Tocqueville Americans are so enamored of equality, they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.
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Alexis de Tocqueville The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colors breaking through.
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Alistair Cooke It has been an unchallengeable American doctrine that cranberry sauce, a pink goo with overtones of sugared tomatoes.
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Arnold Toynbee America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair.
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Arthur Chapman Out where the handclasp's a little stronger, Out where the smile swells a little longer, That's where the West begins.
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Barbara Jordan What the people want is very simple - they want an America as good as its promise.
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Bill Maher We have the Bill of Rights. What we need is a Bill of Responsibilities.
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Bill Vaughan A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.
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Carl N. Degler The metaphor of the melting pot is unfortunate and misleading.
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Charles Francis Adams The American experiment is the most tremendous and far reaching engine of social change which has ever either blessed or cursed mankind.
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Charles Luckman The trouble with America is that there are far too many wide-open spaces surrounded by teeth.
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