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We can have no '50-50' allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all.
Theodore Roosevelt
The American flag, Old Glory, standing tall and flying free over American soil for 228 years is the symbol of our beloved country. It is recognized from near and afar, and many lives have been lost defending it.
Jeff Miller
...that in spite of living in a mansion an American is not above wearing a pair of secondhand pants, bought for fifty cents.
Jhumpa Lahiri
The truth is, immigrants tend to be more American than people born here.
Chuck Palahniuk
Tom said to himself that it was not such a hollow world, after all. He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it -- namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.
Mark Twain
Does it matter how long they were together that night? To lovers, an hour can last a century. But even for lovers, every hour ends.
Scott Snyder
What are American dry-goods? asked the duchess, raising her large hands in wonder and accentuating the verb.American novels, answered Lord Henry.
Oscar Wilde
I have defined the hundred per cent American as ninety-nine per cent an idiot.
George Bernard Shaw
Every man is born an original, but sadly, most men die copies.
Abraham Lincoln
I cannot make my days longer. So I strive to make them better.
Henry David Thoreau
Silence alone is worthy to be heard.
The kind of people I look for to fill top management spots are the mavericks. These are the guys who try to do more than they're expected to do - they always reach.
Lee Iacocca
Happiness is like a butterfly: the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder.
I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything; but still I can do something. I will not refuse to do the something I can do.
Helen Keller
Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.
John F. Kennedy
A wall is a hell of a lot better than a war.
Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
Thomas Jefferson
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
