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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.
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.
Alexis de Tocqueville
Americans are so enamored of equality, they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.
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.
Alistair Cooke
It has been an unchallengeable American doctrine that cranberry sauce, a pink goo with overtones of sugared tomatoes.
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
Aborigines, n.: Persons of little worth found cumbering the soil of a newly discovered country.
Arnold Toynbee
America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair.
Arthur Chapman
Out where the handclasp's a little stronger, Out where the smile swells a little longer, That's where the West begins.
Author Unknown
If you can speak three languages you're trilingual.
Author unknown, proposed new Pledge of Allegiance, as seen on a button
I pledge allegiance to the earth and to the flora, fauna and human life that it supports, one planet indivisible.
Barbara Jordan
What the people want is very simple - they want an America as good as its promise.
Benjamin Harrison, address to Congress, 1888
We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.
Bill Maher
We have the Bill of Rights. What we need is a Bill of Responsibilities.
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.
Bobcat Goldthwaite
America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
Carl N. Degler
The metaphor of the melting pot is unfortunate and misleading.
Charles De Gaulle, Time, 8 December 1967
You have to be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.
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.
Charles G. Halpine used pseudonym Miles O'Reilly
When asked what State he hails from, Our sole reply shall be, He comes from Appomattox And its famous apple tree.
Charles Luckman
The trouble with America is that there are far too many wide-open spaces surrounded by teeth.
 
 
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