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Quote DB :: America Search in this category Presidency (34) Sponsored Links Quote Author Rating Rate "Americans can always be counted on to do the right thing...after they have exhausted all other possibilities." Winston Churchill "I deplore the need or the use of troops anywhere to get American citizens to obey the orders of constituted courts." Dwight Eisenhower "No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public." Henry Mencken "This is a Christian nation." Harry Truman "Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions." Daniel Webster "It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ.For this very reason peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here." Patrick Henry "The United States is in no sense founded upon the Christian doctrine." George Washington "California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn't really need. You can quote me on that." Saul Bellow "We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language." Oscar Wilde "If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a Nation gone under." Ronald Reagan "The flames kindled on the Fourth of July, 1776, have spread over too much of the globe to be extinguished by the feeble engines of despotism; on the contrary, they will consume these engines and all who work them." Thomas Jefferson "The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission." John F. Kennedy "The United States stands at the pinnacle of world power. This is a solemn moment for the American democracy. For with primacy in power is joined an awe-inspiring accountability for the future." Winston Churchill "To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." Theodore Roosevelt "Over the years, the United States has sent many of its fine young men and women into great peril to fight for freedom beyond our borders. The only amount of land we have ever asked for in return is enough to bury those that did not return." Colin Powell "If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate." Oliver Wendell Holmes "The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles." Henry Kissinger "The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer." Henry Kissinger "The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry." Henry Kissinger "This country was built on rape, slavery, murder, degradation and affiliation with crime." Mike Tyson << Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 Next >> Browse America quotes by Author: Abraham Lincoln Adlai Stevenson Alexis de Tocqueville Arnold Toynbee Benjamin Franklin Benjamin Harrison Bill Clinton Calvin Coolidge Colin Powell Daniel Webster Dick Cheney Douglas MacArthur Dwight Eisenhower Franklin D. Roosevelt George W. Bush George Washington GK Chesterton Gloria Steinem Harry Truman Henry Kissinger Henry Mencken Hubert H. Humphrey Hunter S. Thompson James G. Blaine James Madison James Michener Jesse Jackson Jimmy Carter John Adams John F. Kennedy John Gunther John Updike Laurence Peter Malcolm X Mark Twain Mike Tyson Oliver Wendell Holmes Oscar Wilde Patrick Henry Ralph Waldo Emerson Ronald Reagan Rush Limbaugh Samuel Adams Saul Bellow Sigmund Freud Spiro Agnew Susan B. Anthony Theodore Roosevelt Thomas Jefferson Will Rogers Winston Churchill Woodrow Wilson

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