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- America is the country where you buy a lifetime supply of aspirin for one dollar and use it up in two weeks.
- John Barrymore (1882 - 1942)
- 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)
- I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.
- John Adams (1735 - 1826)
- Just what is it that America stands for? If she stands for one thing more than another it is for the sovereignty of self-governing people.
- Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924)
- America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses.
- Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924)
- What we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
- George Eliot (1819 - 1880), Middlemarch
- (i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens; only something in me understands the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses) nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands - e e cummings (1894 - 1962)
- 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
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