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America, where thanks to Congress, there are forty million laws to enforce the Ten Commandments. (Quote by - Anatole France)

We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it. (Quote by - Edward R. Murrow)

It is no secret that organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year. This is quite a profitable sum, especially when one considers that the Mafia spends very little for office supplies. (Quote by - Woody Allen)

The administration I'll bring is a group of men and women who are focused on what's best for America, honest men and women, decent men and women, women who will see service to our country as a great privilege and who will not stain the house. (Quote by - George W. Bush)

When the [Supreme] Court moved to Washington in 1800, it was provided with no books, which probably accounts for the high quality of early opinions. (Quote by - Robert H. Jackson)

George Bush says, 'Gore's book needs a lot of explaining.' Of course, Bush says that about every book. (Quote by - Bill Maher)

As Oscar Wilde should have said, when bad ideas have nowhere else to go, they emigrate to America and become university courses. (Quote by - Frederic Raphael)

Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America--not on the battlefields of Vietnam. (Quote by - Marshall McLuhan)

There are those who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is the American Dream. (Quote by - Archibald MacLeish)

America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out of existence. The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set up by the non-dreamers. (Quote by - William S. Burroughs)

America is my country and Paris is my hometown. (Quote by - Gertrude Stein)

The City of New York is like an enormous citadel, a modern Carcassonne. Walking between the magnificent skyscrapers one feels the presence on the fringe of a howling, raging mob, a mob with empty bellies, a mob unshaven and in rags. (Quote by - Henry Miller)

Americans have been taught that their nation is civilized and humane. But, too often, U.S. actions have been uncivilized and inhumane. (Quote by - Howard Zinn)

The North! the South! the West! the East! No one the most and none the least, But each with its own heart and mind, Each of its own distinctive kind, Yet each a part and none the whole, But all together form one soul; That soul Our Country at its best, No North, no South, no East, no West, No yours, no mine, but always Ours, Merged in one Power our lesser powers, For no one's favor, great or small, But all for Each and each for All. (Quote by - Unattributed Author)

I believe with all my heart that standing up for America means standing up for the God who has so blessed our land. We need God's help to guide our nation through stormy seas. But we can't expect Him to protect America in a crisis if we just leave Him over on the shelf in our day-to-day living. (Quote by - Ronald Reagan)

You're not anyone in America unless you're on TV. (Quote by - Nicole Kidman)

The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity- unlimited, undefined, endless, perpetual posterity. (Quote by - Henry Clay)

Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms. (Quote by - James Madison)

America is the land of the second chance - and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life. (Quote by - George W. Bush)

I haven't, in the 23 years that I have been in the uniformed services of the United States of America, ever violated an order - not one. (Quote by - Oliver North)

The bomb that fell on Hiroshima fell on America too. It fell on no city, no munition plants, no docks. It erased no church, vaporized no public buildings, reduced no man to his atomic elements. But it fell, it fell. (Quote by - Hermann Hagedorn)

The true meaning of America, you ask? It's in a Texas rodeo, in a policeman's badge, in the sound of laughing children, in a political rally, in a newspaper.. In all these things, and many more, you'll find America. In all these things, you'll find freedom. And freedom is what America means to the world. And to me. (Quote by - Audie Murphy)

We defend and we build a way of life, not for America alone, but for all of mankind. (Quote by - Franklin D. Roosevelt)

America must not ignore the threat gathering against us. Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof, the smoking gun that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud. (Quote by - George W. Bush)

If, in New York, you arrive late for an appointment, say, "I took a taxi. (Quote by - Andre Maurois)

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