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American Quotes by Jon Meacham
- It is true that traditional Christianity is losing some of its appeal among Americans, but that is a religious, not political, matter. It is worth…
- One wonders whether the Obama re-election campaign may be on the right track as it seeks to apply the you-break-it-you-own-it rule to Bush and the…
- A wise nation should cultivate a political spirit that allows opponents to cooperate without fearing an automatic execution from their core supporters. Who knew that…
- I believe that my children, who are young, will look back on the early years of the 21st century in rather the same way I…
- Cynically but accurately put, Americans oppose public intervention or regulation if it helps others, but favor it if it helps them - take social security,…
- The American system of political spending is so unregulated that it might make Adam Smith rethink free markets.
- Anyone weighing whether to re-elect the President should take the bin Laden operation into account: it is a powerful exhibit that Obama is a steely…
- I am a huge admirer of Franklin Roosevelt's, and I believe social security has done untold good in alleviating the once-widespread issue of poverty among…
- Justified or not, the Supreme Court has a kind of sacred status in American life. For whatever reason, Presidents can safely run against Congress, and…
- Whoever rises to deliver the inaugural Address of 2013 will speak to a nation in which the American Dream is under profound economic and cultural…
- The American Dream may be slipping away. We have overcome such challenges before. To recover the Dream requires knowing where it came from, how it…
- The power of the American system of republicanism lies in its capacity to allow religious belief to be a competing, not a controlling, factor in…
More American Quotes
- I know how the American people care for that democratic principle. They want to see their vote respected. As we in Haiti… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- At one of the annual conventions of the American Society for Aesthetics much confusion arose when the Society for Anesthetics met at… — Rudolf Arnheim
- When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society… — Isaac Asimov
- The Israeli lobby has clout in the U.S., which means that re-arranging the region and controlling its resources one way or another,… — Bashar al-Assad
- When I was a kid, I really loved Indians. Native Americans. Pardon. Me. — Dave Attell
- Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- First, I think more Americans need to declare their independence from partisan politics on both sides. The more that Americans declare their… — John Avlon
- An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect… — Irving Babbitt
- If quantitatively the American achievement is impressive, qualitatively it is somewhat less satisfying. — Irving Babbitt
- Cinco de Mayo has come to represent a celebration of the contributions that Mexican Americans and all Hispanics have made to America. — Joe Baca
- Every year thousands of Americans mistakenly refer to Cinco de Mayo as Mexico's Independence Day. — Joe Baca
- Products made in China are cheap through the exploitation of the workforce. Every time we shop, we are driving the nail further… — Joe Baca