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- I don't measure America by its achievement but by its potential.
- Shirley Chisholm (1924 - 2005)
- Our American values are not luxuries but necessities, not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. Our common vision of a free and just society is our greatest source of cohesion at home and strength abroad, greater than the bounty of our material blessings.
- Jimmy Carter (1924 - )
- America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered.
- Louis D. Brandeis (1856 - 1941)
- I just want to say this. I want to say it gently but I want to say it firmly: There is a tendency for the world to say to America, "the big problems of the world are yours, you go and sort them out," and then to worry when America wants to sort them out.
- Tony Blair (1953 - )
- Unique among the nations, America recognized the source of our character as being godly and eternal, not being civic and temporal. And because we have understood that our source is eternal, America has been different. We have no king but Jesus.
- John Ashcroft (1942 - )
- America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own.
- John Quincy Adams (1767 - 1848)
- What we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
- George Eliot (1819 - 1880), Middlemarch
- Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.
- Bob Marley (1945 - 1981)
- Men want sex. If men ruled the world, they could get sex anywhere, anytime. Restaurants would give you sex instead of breath mints on the way out. Gas stations would give sex with every fill-up. Banks would give sex to anyone who opened a checking account.
- Scott Adams (1957 - ), The Dilbert Future
- The mind has greater power over the emotions, and is less subject thereto, insofar as it understands all things to be necessary.
- Baruch Spinoza (1632 - 1677), The Ethics
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