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  • Calvin Coolidge Parties do not maintain themselves. They are maintained by effort. The government is not self-existent. It is maintained by the effort of those who believe in it. The people of America believe in American institutions, the American form of government and the American method of transacting business.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • Calvin Coolidge Patriotism is easy to understand in America; it means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • Margaret Mead People in America, of course, live in all sorts of fashions, because they are foreigners, or unlucky, or depraved, or without ambition; people live like that, but Americans live in white detached houses with green shutters. Rigidly, blindly, the dream takes precedence.
    Margaret Mead
    American cultural anthropologist (1901 - 1978)
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  • Alistair Cooke People in America, when listening to radio, like to lean forward. People in Britain like to lean back.
    Alistair Cooke
    British journalist (1908 - 2004)
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  • Bill Hicks People in the U.K. share my bemusement with the United States that America doesn't share with itself. They have a sense of irony, which America doesn't have, seeing as it's being run by fundamentalists who take things literally.
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • Bill Hicks People in the United Kingdom and outside the United States share my bemusement with the United States that America doesn't share with itself.
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • Alistair Cooke People, when they first come to America, whether as travelers or settlers, become aware of a new and agreeable feeling: that the whole country is their oyster.
    Alistair Cooke
    British journalist (1908 - 2004)
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  • Oscar Wilde Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Adam Michnik Poland is an ally of the United States of America. It was our duty to show that we are a reliable, loyal, and predictable ally. America needed our help, and we had to give it.
    Adam Michnik
    Polish historian, essayist and dissident (1946 - )
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  • Ann Coulter Political debate with liberals is basically impossible in America today because liberals are calling names while conservatives are trying to make arguments.
    Ann Coulter
    American far-right media pundit and author (1961 - )
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  • Bill Clinton Posterity is the world to come; the world for whom we hold our ideals, from whom we have borrowed our planet, and to whom we bear sacred responsibility. We must do what America does best: offer more opportunity to all and demand responsibility from all.
    First inaugural address, Washington, D.C. (January 20, 1993)
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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  • Theodore Harold White Power in America today is control of the means of communication.
    Theodore Harold White
    American political journalist and historian (1915 - 1986)
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  • Ben Shapiro President Obama has created the image of an America under President Bush that routinely violated international law.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Bob Beauprez President Reagan, Jack Kemp and other advocates of supply-side economics understood that pro-growth tax, spending and economic policies were essential to America's long-term economic and fiscal health.
    Bob Beauprez
    American politician and member (1948 - )
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  • Baba Kalyani Prior to 2001, hardly any company in North America or Europe would buy from India.
    Baba Kalyani
    Indian businessman (1949 - )
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  • Bruce Catton Say this much for big league baseball - it is beyond question the greatest conversation piece ever invented in America.
    Bruce Catton
    American historian and journalist (1899 - 1978)
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  • Bill Frist September 11 impressed upon us that life is a precious gift. Every life has a purpose. And I think we all have a duty to devote at least a small portion of our daily lives to ensuring that neither America nor the world ever forgets September 11.
    Bill Frist
    American physician, businessman and politician (1952 - )
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  • Marlene Dietrich Sex. In America an obsession. In other parts of the world a fact.
    Marlene Dietrich
    German-born American Film Actor (1901 - 1992)
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  • Bill Keller Since September 11 2001, editors in America have faced some excruciating choices, as the attempt to wage a war against a new kind of enemy sometimes strained the boundaries of our laws and values.
    Bill Keller
    American journalist (1949 - )
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  • Malcolm X 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.
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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