Football combines the two worst things about America: it is violence punctuated by committee meetings.
We must never forget that Black History is American History. The achievements of African Americans have contributed to our nation's greatness.
America preaches integration and practices segregation.
There's not an American in this country free until every one of us is free.
Don't let anybody make you think God chose America as His divine messianic force to be a sort of policeman of the whole world.
It's never paid to bet against America. We come through things, but its not always a smooth ride.
Only in America can someone start with nothing and achieve the American Dream. That's the greatness of this country.
For many, the American dream has become a nightmare.
In America, the young are always ready to give to those older than themselves the full benefit of their inexperience
Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. We will gain the inevitable triumph, so help us God.
Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting.
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way
It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress.
Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind.
The American Dream is that any man or woman, despite of his or her background, can change their circumstances and rise as high as they are willing to work.
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.
Growing up female in America. What a liability! You grew up with your ears full of cosmetic ads, love songs, advice columns, whoreoscopes, Hollywood gossip, and moral dilemmas on the level of TV soap operas.
No sovereign, no court, no personal loyalty, no aristocracy, no church, no clergy, no army, no diplomatic service, no country gentlemen, no palaces, no castles, nor manors, nor old country-houses, nor parsonages, nor thatched cottages nor ivied ruins; no cathedrals, nor abbeys, nor little Norman churches; no great Universities nor public schools -- no Oxford, nor Eton, nor Harrow; no literature, no novels, no museums, no pictures, no political society, no sporting class -- no Epsom nor Ascot! Some such list as that might be drawn up of the absent things in American life.
It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self-conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations of the earth are in a conspiracy to under value them.
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