Quoty: quotes tagged with 'america'

We love America just as much as they do. But in...

We love America just as much as they do. But in a different way. You see, they love America like a 4-year-old loves his mommy. Liberals love America like grown-ups. To a 4-year-old, everything Mommy does is wonderful and anyone who criticizes Mommy is bad. Grown-up love means actually understanding what you love, taking the good with the bad and helping your loved one grow. Love takes attention and work and is the best thing in the world. That�s why we liberals want America to do the right thing. We know America is the hope of the world, and we love it and want it to do well.

Author: Al Franken, Source: Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them
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On every question of construction, carry oursel...

On every question of construction, carry ourselves back to the time when the constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates, and instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text, or invented against it, conform to the probable one in which it was passed.
Author: Thomas Jefferson, Source: Works, Vol 12, p. 257, Fed. Ed.
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Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner, ...

Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner, unless you eat some of what's on that plate. Being here in America doesn't make you an American. Being born here in America doesn't make you an American.
Author: Malcolm X, Source: Unknown
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I do not choose to be a common man. It is my ri...

I do not choose to be a common man. It is my right to be uncommon. I seek opportunity to develop whatever talents God gave me-not security. I do not wish to be kept citizen, humbled and dulled by having the state look after me. I want to take the calculated risk; to dream and to build, to fail and succeed. I refuse to barter incentive for a dole. I prefer the challenges of life to the guaranteed existence; the thrill of fulfillment to the stale calm of utopia. I will not trade freedom for beneficence nor my dignity for a handout. I will never cower before any earthly master nor bend to any threat. It is my heritage to stand erect, proud and unafraid; to think and act myself, enjoy the benefit of my creations and to face the world boldly and say- 'This, with God's help, I have done.' All this is what it means to be an American.
Author: Ezra Taft Benson, Source: General Conference, April 1969
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A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fi...

A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.
Author: Bill Vaughn, Source: Unknown
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I believe that if the people of this nation ful...

I believe that if the people of this nation fully understood what Congress has done to them over the last 49 years, they would move on Washington; they would not wait for an election... It adds up to a preconceived plan to destroy the economic and social independence of the United States!
Author: George W. Malone, Source: Congressional statement, 1957
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Sunday, July 13th, 1777. News that our Army has...

Sunday, July 13th, 1777. News that our Army has surprised Washington and taken him prisoner. Afraid it is too good to be authentic. His great caution will always prevent him being made a prisoner to our inactive General. Washington is certainly a most surprising man, one of Nature's geniuses, a Heaven-born General, if there is any of that sort. That a Negro-driver should, with a ragged Banditti of undisciplined people, the scum and refuse of all nations on earth, so long keep a British General at bay, nay, even, oblige him, with as fine an army of Veteran Soldiers as ever England had on the American Continent, to retreat--it is astonishing. It is too much. By Heavens, there must be double-dealing somewhere. General Howe, a man brought up to War from his youth, to be puzzled and plagued for two years together, with a Virginia Tobacco planter. O! Britain, how thy Laurels tarnish in the hands of such a Lubber! The life of General Washington will be a most copious subject for some able Biographer to exercise his pen upon. Nature did not make me one of the Biographic order. However, I will make some remarks concerning this great and wonderful man.

(Cresswell was a loyalist in America during the Revolutionary War.)
Author: Nicholas Cresswell, Source: Nicholas Cresswell journal, Library of Congress website
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...the inability of the colonists to get the po...

...the inability of the colonists to get the power to issue their own money permanently out of the hands of George III and the international bankers was the PRIME reason for the Revolutionary War.
Author: Benjamin Franklin, Source: Autobiography
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America is great because she is good. If Americ...

America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville, Source: Unknown
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Our Lord unlocked my mind, sent me upon the sea...

Our Lord unlocked my mind, sent me upon the sea, and gave me fire for the deed. Those who heard of my enterprise called it foolish, mocked me, and laughed. But who can doubt but that the Holy Ghost inspired me?
Author: Christopher Columbus, Source: Columbus, Don Quixote of the Seas, translated by Eric Sutton [Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1930], pp. 19-20
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A general dissolution of principles and manners...

A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy. While the people are virtuous they cannot be subdued; but when once they lose their virtue they will be ready to surrender their liberties to the first external or internal invader... If virtue and knowledge are diffused among the people, they will never be enslaved. This will be their great security.
Author: Samuel Adams, Source: Unknown
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[There] are also, still, American exceptionalis...

[There] are also, still, American exceptionalists, meaning they believe the creation of America--the long journey across the sea, the genius cluster that invented the republic, the historic codifying of freedom--was providential, and good news not only for us but the world.
Author: Peggy Noonan, Source: http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/pnoonan/?id=110009321
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The things that will destroy America are prospe...

The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first, and love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.
Author: Theodore Roosevelt, Source: Unknown
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There has not been another such group of men in...

There has not been another such group of men in all [the 200 years of] our history that even challenged the supremacy of this group.

It is the union of independence and dependence of these branches -- legislative, executive and judicial -- and of the governmental functions possessed by each of them, that constitutes the marvelous genius of this unrivaled document. ... It was here that divine inspiration came. It was truly a miracle.
Author: J. Reuben Clark, Jr., Source: Conference Report, April 1957
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The greatest and most powerful fortification in...

The greatest and most powerful fortification in America is the 'Monroe Doctrine.'... It was the inspiration of the Almighty which rested upon John Quincy Adams, Thomas Jefferson and other statesmen, and which finally found authoritative expression in the message of James Monroe to Congress in the year 1823.
Author: Joseph Fielding Smith, Source: The Progress Of Man, pp. 466-67
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