5,300 Quotes About America


  • Author Cynthia Ozick
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    The ground was scorched, the streets teemed with refugees, and these Americans were playing at fleeing! As if they had something to resent, to despise, to scorn, to run away from! As if they weren't the lords of the earth.

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  • Author Jonathan Glover
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    The UN lacked the ability to act without the support of its more powerful members, notably the United States. The American government wanted to avoid a repetition of its unsuccessful intervention in Somalia, in which thirty American troops were killed. President Clinton issued a directive on UN military conditions. The operations would also have to be directly relevant to American interests. These conditions excluded American support for UN intervention to stop the genocide [in Rwanda].

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  • Author Clifford A. Pickover
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    Preservations are working to save neon signs for future generations, either on-site or in museums. After all, what would America be without a few giant doughnuts around.

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  • Author Jeff Ferry
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    Karl stood up and pointed at the large portraits on the wall. He swept the room from George Washington to Ben Franklin to John Adams to Thomas Jefferson. “Soldier, Printer, Lawyer, Scholar. You become a politician because the people make you one, not because you desire to be one.

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  • Author Lois Tyson
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    Who has the time to become politically active, or even politically aware, when one is struggling just to stay alive and feed one’s children?

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