Fisher Ames Quotes

America is rising with a giant's strength. Its bones are yet but cartilages.

Fisher Ames

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• Devout Anatolian masses rising from poverty have transformed Turkey politically and economically.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Poverty
  • Masses
  • Rising

• The United States condoned dictatorships in Latin America for much of the 20th century.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • America
  • Latin
  • Latin America

• Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.

  

  L. Frank Baum
  • America
  • Present
  • Dark

• I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Up
  • Time
  • May

• Before my book, 'California,' came out, I had modest hopes for it. Or, let's put it this way - I had the same hopes that every literary fiction writer in America has: I wanted the novel to be well-received, critically. As for sales? I didn't want it to disappoint, but I didn't expect it to be a best-seller, either.

  

  Edan Lepucki
  • Book
  • America
  • Same

• I have been talking to a lot of people who don't normally vote Democratic - independents and Republicans. They have been voting for Democrats because they think it's important to change the direction America is going.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • People
  • Important
  • America

• What America needs is not just another politician or more promises. What America needs is a revival.

  

  Rand Paul
  • America
  • More
  • Promises

• America's peak years of indigenous innovation ran from the 1820s to the 1960s. There were a few financial panics and two depressions, to be sure. But in this period, a frenzy of creative activity, economic competition and rapid growth in national income provided widening economic inclusion, rising wages for all, and engaging careers for most.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • America
  • Growth
  • Period

• You know, America is - for me, it's the best country.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • Country
  • America
  • Me

• Since Reagan there has been this tradition, which has become a cliche, of promising morning in America, this fake optimism, we're the best, the city on the hill. In fact the great American task is self-scrutiny.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Great
  • American
  • America

• If the Christians who were alive in the 1770s behaved and believed like the Christians of today, there wouldn't be an America as we know it.

  

  Randall Terry
  • America
  • Today
  • Know

• When I went off to the army when I was 17 years old, I believed in America and the rights of freedom. But today I believe my government is lying to the American people and that my president, George Bush, is a criminal.

  

  Jack Herer
  • People
  • Believe
  • American

• Just as entrepreneurs developed America, they can develop other countries, too.

  

  Iqbal Quadir
  • America
  • Just
  • Other

• I believe in the power of millions of courageous conservatives rising up to re-ignite the promise of America.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Power

• Just as we send young American Jews to Israel through the Birthright program, we need to also consider a 'reverse Birthright' for Israeli kids to come see America.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Kids
  • American
  • America

• I suppose if I wanted to be the girl next door, I could have been. I think America is confused by someone who appears to be sexual and spiritual at the same time.

  

  Sally Kirkland
  • Time
  • America
  • Girl

• I saw some amazing, beautiful, invigorating parts of America, but I saw some dark parts of America, an ugly side of America, a side of America that rarely sees the light of day. I refer, of course, to the anus and testicles of my co-star, Ken Davitian.

  

  Sacha Baron Cohen
  • America
  • Beautiful
  • Light

• Israel has no better friend than America. And America has no better friend than Israel. We stand together to defend democracy. We stand together to advance peace. We stand together to fight terrorism. Congratulations America. Congratulations, Mister President. You got bin Laden. Good riddance!

  

  Benjamin Netanyahu
  • Good
  • America
  • Together

• In America, what you've accomplished financially is a measurement, whether you like it or not.

  

  Eli Broad
  • America

• Homeowners want solar power. It's cost-effective. We invented a business model that makes it really easy for consumers to switch to solar - and that's solar-as-a-service.

  

  Lynn Jurich
  • Business
  • Power
  • Service

• The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • People
  • Important
  • Service

• It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • Enough
  • Popular
  • Easy

• He's dangerous because when God talks to him Bob will do whatever God asks him to do at great cost, even if no one agrees, if it's contrary to the way the stream is going, if Bob feels God is in it he will do it.

  

  Bill Hybels
  • Great
  • God

• America is rising with a giant's strength. Its bones are yet but cartilages.

  

  Fisher Ames
  • America
  • Bones
  • Rising