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America And Americans Quotes by Alexis de Tocqueville
- Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.
- In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to…
- The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without…
- The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours…
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- A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile… — Neal Barnard
- America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must… — Jane Addams
- One of the embarrassing problems for the early nineteenth-century champions of the Christian faith was that not one of the first six… — Mortimer Adler
- America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced… — Louis D. Brandeis
- God is the perfect poet. — Robert Browning
- The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity- unlimited, undefined, endless,… — Henry Clay
- I think it puts baseball back on the map as a sport. It's America's pastime and just look at everyone coming out… — Mark McGwire
- As a woman I can't go to war, and I refuse to send anyone else. — Jeannette Rankin
- Americans who travel abroad for the first time are often shocked to discover that, despite all the progress that has been made… — Dave Barry
- The Constitution of the United States was created by the people of the United States composing the respective states, who alone had… — James Madison
- My mother is such a lousy cook that Thanksgiving at her house is a time of sorrow. — Rita Rudner