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"America...just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable." Hunter S. Thompson 3.5284552845528454 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"You give me a credit to which I have no claim in calling me 'the writer of the Constitution of the United States.' This was not, like the fabled Goddess of Wisdom, the offspring of a single brain. It ought to be regarded as the work of many heads and many hands." James Madison 4.75 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"The Americans combine the notions of Christianity and of liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive the one without the other." Alexis de Tocqueville 3.823529411764706 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"It was by the sober sense of our citizens that we were safely and steadily conducted from monarchy to republicanism, and it is by the same agency alone we can be kept from falling back." Thomas Jefferson 3.4 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans." John F. Kennedy 3 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man." John F. Kennedy 4.260869565217392 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty." John F. Kennedy 4.795454545454546 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"To those new States whom we welcome to the ranks of the free, we pledge our word that one form of colonial control shall not have passed away merely to be replaced by a far more iron tyranny." John F. Kennedy 3.75 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth." Abraham Lincoln 4.555555555555555 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"When you stand for your liberty, we will stand with you." George W. Bush 2.7941176470588234 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands." George W. Bush 2.8852459016393444 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"The whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance, a revolutionary crisis, or a battle." Alexis de Tocqueville 2 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Born often under another sky, placed in the middle of an always moving scene, himself driven by the irresistible torrent which draws all about him, the American has no time to tie himself to anything, he grows accustomed only to change, and ends by regarding it as the natural state of man. He feels the need of it, more he loves it; for the instability; instead of meaning disaster to him, seems to give birth only to miracles all about him." Alexis de Tocqueville 2.75 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Americans are so enamored of equality, they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom." Alexis de Tocqueville 3.6666666666666665 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them." Alexis de Tocqueville 5 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"When American(s) ask for the cooperation of (their) fellow citizens, it is seldom refused; and I have often seen it afforded spontaneously and with great good will." Alexis de Tocqueville 4.5 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through." Alexis de Tocqueville 4.5 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"In the United States the majority undertakes to supply a multitude of ready-made opinions for the use of individuals, who are thus relieved from the necessity of forming opinions of their own." Alexis de Tocqueville 4 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"There is hardly a political question in the United States which does not sooner or later turn into a judicial one." Alexis de Tocqueville 5 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great." Alexis de Tocqueville 4.568965517241379 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote


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