Quotes 461 till 480 of 622.
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The success of a party means little more than that the Nation is using the party for a large and definite purpose. It seeks to use and interpret a change in its own plans and point of view.
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The test audience holds a great deal of power in the process of filmmaking in the United States.
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The theory of rights enables us to rise and overthrow obstacles, but not to found a strong and lasting accord between all the elements which compose the nation.
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The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are - 1. Security to possessors; 2. Facility to acquirers; and, 3. Hope to all.
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The time when I had desire to go to the United States I didn't have a penny. It was in the middle of the depression, you know. I couldn't get as far as Hoboken at that time.
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The true wealth of a nation consists not in the stored-up gold but in the intellectual and physical strength of its people.
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The two great political parties of the nation have existed for the purpose, each in accordance with its own principles, of undertaking to serve the interests of the whole nation. Their members of the Congress are chosen with that great end in view.
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The U.S. is an optimistic nation. No candidate has ever won the American presidency by speaking primarily to people's deepest fears and by manufacturing a sense of apocalypse - that our leaders 'can't do anything right,' that things are utterly falling apart.
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The U.S. is supposed to be a nation of second chances, but for the 70 million Americans with a criminal record, we're not doing such a great job. Even among those whose crimes were nonviolent and committed long ago, too many still bear a scarlet letter.
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The UN could help the Iraqi government get on its feet and help the United States withdraw a bit more.
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The United Nations charter gives every nation the right to self defence, therefore when the American embassies were bombed it was a matter of time before the Americans responded by going for what they suspected were the causes of the attack.
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The United States and Mexico are trapped - economically, culturally, politically and because of drug crime - in the same continent.
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The United States can tell you all about what's wrong with the British, to say nothing of the Russians.
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The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.
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The United States has to move very fast to even stand still.
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The United States has written the white history of the United States. It now needs to write the black, Latino, Indian, Asian and Caribbean history of the United States.
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The United States is a big country but unfortunately it seems it has the brain of a little bird not befitting the greatness of the country.
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The United States is a key ally, a strategic partner, and a reliable friend of the Philippines.
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The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.
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