American Quotes
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To a great extent the achievements of invention, of mechanical and of artistic creation, must of necessity, and rightly, be individual rather than governmental. It is the self-reliant pioneer in every enterprise who beats the path along which American civilization has marched. Such individual effort is the glory of America.
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I'd be happy if people said that I did a little bit to raise the dignity and recognition of the greatness of African-American music.
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As you watch 'Documented' on CNN, I ask you, my fellow Americans: What do you want to do with me? What do you want to do with us? How do you define American?
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Let's end the political games. Stop the finger pointing and do the work the American people sent us here to do.
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Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.
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I'm not so optimistic as to think that you would ever be able to garner a majority of an American Congress that would make those kinds of investments above and beyond the kinds of investments that could be made in a progressive program for lifting up all people.
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In addition to anti-American terrorists with global reach, our adversaries include organizations - some nation states, some private and some criminal - that proliferate weapons of mass destruction and the means to deliver them.
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People wanna say that they're part Native American or mixed, or anything other than black. We're raised to believe that there's something better about not being fully black, something eccentric about it. I'm saying I used to tell girls that I was mixed, which is a bold-faced lie!
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Un-American, adj. Wicked, intolerable, heathenish.
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I read an article somewhere that stated 1 in 4 American women will be considered clinically depressed in their lifetime. This should be more than a gold mine for pharmaceutical companies - it should be a wake-up call.
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I've achieved 'the American dream.' I feel it's my duty to help others achieve their vision, too - especially the youth.
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I wish the American public wasn't so stupid if they realized that half the people on television make a living just to insult the other party.
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I had an American journalist say to me, "Is it true you wrote the whole of the first novel on napkins?" I was tempted to say, "On teabags, I used to save them.
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I'm using my degree. You know, I studied English and American literature in college, and now I'm an American poet.
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American troops around the globe are the greatest preservers of liberty and peace in the world.
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Religion has become the blind spot of American journalism.
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The right to vote gives every eligible American a voice in our electoral politics. There's too much at stake to stay silent as this right is eroded.
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I think the country will get behind someone who comes from a working-class background, who truly epitomizes the American Dream.
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There is no global anthem, no global currency, no certificate of global citizenship, we pledge allegiance to one flag and that flag is the American Flag!
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I think people are really picky about English accents. When a Brit comes over here and kind of does an OK American accent, everyone's like, 'You were great! Fantastic!' But in England, even if you were doing a pretty good accent, they're like, 'But where are you from?' 'London.' 'What part of London?' Accents are really precious over there.
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I like The White Stripes and I like the kinda twang American thing right now.
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If Wellington epitomizes the English gentleman, Eisenhower epitomizes the natural American gentleman.
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As long as I am an American citizen, and as long as American blood runs in these veins, I shall hold myself at liberty to speak, to write, and to publish whatever I please on any subject, being amenable to the laws of my country for the same.
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Patriotism is often the cry extolled when morally questionable acts are advocated by those in power. When these cries of patriotism drown out any logically based dissension, it is usually the American soldier that is given the order to carry out some ill-conceived mission.
