Stephen Ambrose Quotes
Andrew Johnson was a Southerner generally who proclaimed that his native state of Tennessee was a country for white men.
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I love dogs, but dogs, you have to be in the country with dogs. I cannot walk a dog on the street.
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It feels a little bit odd to me that you have some guys that have never lived in the United States that play for the United States because they were able to secure a passport. To me, that just feels like they weren't able to make it for their country and earn a living, so they're coming here.
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There's about one sword-swallower per 2 to 4 million persons in each country.
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We have the highest incarceration rate of any country in the world. 'America, land of liberty and freedom?' You know, that's baloney. More than 2 million Americans are behind bars now. Communist China has four times the population and they have 1.5 million people behind bars.
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Where in the Constitution does it say that because we don't like a foreign country's leader, we should go in and topple the dictator?
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All of my high school male teachers were WWII and/or Korean War veterans. They taught my brothers and me the value of service to our country and reinforced what our dad had shown us about the meaning of service.
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Our position is that we do not accept conditions of any kind which may affect the independence and sovereignty of our country just with the view to solve economic problems existing between the United States and Cuba.
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If I were a congressman who had voted for the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004, I'd claim it was forced on our country by a sinister international organization.
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In ancient British times, the whole country belonged to tribes, and the tribes owned their several districts. At the head of each tribe was the chief.
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We need to restore the confidence in the country, first of all.
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We didn't become the most prosperous country in the world just by rewarding greed and recklessness. We didn't come this far by letting the special interests run wild. We didn't do it just by gambling and chasing paper profits on Wall Street. We built this country by making things, by producing goods we could sell.
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When Bangladesh refused to renew my passport, I used U.N. travel documents. You can't disown your country.
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We are a model country where gender equality is concerned.
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There is this idea that it's very different from the French point of view to work in America blah, blah, blah. But I think it's different from one person to the other, not from one country to the other.
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Our country will not stand for any political plan that includes amnesty for insurgents.
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There will be a lot of competitive and strong companies coming here and even though Kosovo is a small country that undoubtedly has a lot to offer to global trade; one of our main interests is to expose it to the world market.
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Sir; You are directed to have a transport.. sent to the colored colony of San Domingo to bring back to this country such of the colonists there as desire to return.
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Iraq was not involved in 9-11, Iraq was not a terrorist state. But now that we have decimated the country, the borders are open, freedom fighters from other countries are going in, and they the U.S. government have created more terrorism by going to an Islamic country...
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This is not a confrontation between ‘left’ and ‘right’. I am trying to represent the deep feelings of those many thousands of rank-and-file Tories in the country-and potential Conservative voters, too-who feel let down by our party and find themselves unrepresented in a political vacuum.
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In the Civil Rights Act of 1965, we affirmed through law for every citizen in this land the most basic right of democracy-the right of a citizen to vote in an election in his country. In the five States where the Act had its greater impact, Negro voter registration has already more than doubled.
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People strangely revere dance. They see it as another world, and dancers are somehow mysterious - just because they don't speak.
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I accredit animals for keeping me going when times were bad.
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The nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously-and have somebody find out.
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Andrew Johnson was a Southerner generally who proclaimed that his native state of Tennessee was a country for white men.
