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“Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihood—the virtues that made America. The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.”
Theodore Roosevelt Quotes |
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“"The name of American, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of Patriotism.... It should be the highest ambition of every American to extend his views beyond himself, and to bear in mind that his conduct will not only affect himself, his country, and his immediate posterity; but that its influence may be co-extensive with the world, and stamp political happiness or misery on ages yet unborn." --George Washington”
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“This is my home. Home is where the disease is. As long as I stay in America, I'll never run out of subjects for songs.”
Jello Biafra Quotes |
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“A fully functional multiracial society cannot be achieved without a sense of history and open, honest dialogue.”
Cornel West Quotes |
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“We believe that what matters most is not narrow appeals masquerading as values, but the shared values that show the true face of America; not narrow values that divide us, but the shared values that unite us: family, faith, hard work, opportunity and responsibility for all, so that every child, every adult, every parent, every worker in America has an equal shot at living up to their God-given potential. That is the American dream and the American value.”
Senator John Kerry Quotes |
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“Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people in order to betray them.”
Joseph Story Quotes |
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“Our purpose now is to reclaim democracy itself. We are here to affirm that when Americans stand up and speak their minds and say America can do better, that is not a challenge to patriotism; it is the heart and soul of patriotism.”
Senator John Kerry Quotes |
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“America has not led but fled on the issue of global warming.”
Senator John Kerry Quotes |
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“America now stands as the world's foremost power. We should be proud: Not since the age of the Romans have one people achieved such preeminence. But we are not Romans; we do not seek an empire. We are Americans, trustees of a vision and a heritage that commit us to the values of democracy and the universal cause of human rights.”
Senator John Kerry Quotes |
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“Build up your creditBuild up your self esteemBuild up your bank accountMoving up in the sceneEveryone's living the American Dream so we canBuild up an armyAnd SMASH it to pieces!”
Christine Anderson Quotes |
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“Asylum of the oppressed of every nation.”
Unattributed Author Quotes Source: phrase used in the Democratic platform of 1856, referring to the U.S.
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“O, Columbia, the gem of the ocean,
The home of the brave and the free,
The shrine of each patriot's devotion,
A world offers homage to them.”
Unattributed Author Quotes Source: a adaptation of Shaw's "Britannia"
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“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more
perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility,
provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and
secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Prosperity,
do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States
of America.”
Unattributed Author Quotes Source: Preamble to the Constitution of the United States of America
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“My toast would be, may our country always be successful, but
whether successful or otherwise, always right.”
Unattributed Author Quotes Source: Preamble to the Constitution of the United States of America
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“Yet, still, from either beach,
The voice of blood shall reach,
More audible than speech,
"We are one!"”
Washington Allston Quotes Source: America to Great Britain
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“From many to make one.
[Lat., Ex pluribus unum facere.]”
Saint Aurelius Augustine Quotes Source: Confessions (bk. IV, 8, 13)
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“America! half brother of the world!
With something good and bad of every land.”
Philip James Bailey Quotes Source: Festus (sc. The Surface, l. 340)
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“O beautiful for spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountains majesties
Above the fruited plain.
America! America! God shed His grace on thee,
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea.”
Katharine Lee Bates Quotes Source: America, the Beautiful, first stanza of a song
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“A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not
yet hardened into the bone of manhood.”
Edmund Burke Quotes Source: Speech on Conciliation with America--Works (vol. II)
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“Young man, there is America--which at this day serves for little
more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth
manners; yet shall, before you taste of death, show itself equal
to the whole that commerce which now attracts the envy of the
world.”
Edmund Burke Quotes Source: Speech on Conciliation with America--Works (vol. II)
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“I can hear you. The rest of the world hears you. And the people
who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon.”
George Walker Bush Quotes Source: to rescue workers at the destruction of New York's World Trade Center
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“This nation is peaceful, but fierce when stirred to anger.”
George Walker Bush Quotes Source: on the destruction of New York's World trade Center
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“I called the New World into existence to redress the balance of
the Old.”
George Canning Quotes Source: The King's Message
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“Out where the handclasp's a little stronger,
Out where the smile swells a little longer,
That's where the West begins.”
Arthur Chapman Quotes Source: Out Where the West Begins
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“The light may be fading on the 20th century, but the sun is still
rising on America.”
William Jefferson Clinton Quotes Source: in the "Sunday Times"
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