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I despair of the Republic! Such dreariness, such whining sallow women, such utter absence of the amenities, such crass food, crass manners, crass landscape!! What… — Edith Wharton
We can no longer waste time and money. Every day, more than 2,000 girls in America, age 15-19, give birth - in the wealthiest, most… — Jane Fonda
This nation can no longer tolerate the autonomous conduct of any single service. A waste of the resources of America in spendthrift defense is an… — Louis A. Johnson
Justice is the bread of the nation; it is always hungry for it. — FranÃ§ois-RenÃ© de Chateaubriand
When the Kerner Commission told white America what black America has always known, that prejudice and hatred built the nation’s slums, maintains them and profits… — Shirley Chisholm
I have been called a curmudgeon, which my obsolescent dictionary defines as a 'surly, ill-mannered, bad-tempered fellow'. Nowadays, curmudgeon is likely to refer to anyone… — Edward Abbey
If America could be, once again, a nation of self-reliant farmers, craftsmen, hunters, ranchers, and artists, then the rich would have little power to dominate… — Edward Abbey
The gurus come from the sickliest nation on earth to tell us how to live. And we pay them for it. — Edward Abbey
In a nation of sheep, one brave man forms a majority. — Edward Abbey
I know my own nation best. That's why I despise it the most. And know and love my own people, too, the swine. I'm a… — Edward Abbey
America My Country: last nation on earth to abolish human slavery; first of all nations to drop the nuclear bomb on our fellow human beings. — Edward Abbey
The French constitute the most brilliant and the most dangerous nation in Europe and the best qualified in turn to become an object of admiration,… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Sir, no nation has ever yet existed or been governed without religion. Nor can be. The Christian religion is the best religion that has been given… — Thomas Jefferson
To unequal privileges among members of the same society the spirit of our nation is, with one accord, adverse. — Thomas Jefferson
I had rather ask an enlargement of power from the nation, where it is found necessary, than to assume it by a construction which would… — Thomas Jefferson
The mobilization of world opinion and methods of negotiation should be developed and used by every nation in order to strengthen the United Nations. — Eleanor Roosevelt
Divide et impera must be the motto of every nation that either hates or fears us. — Alexander Hamilton
To cherish and stimulate the activity of the human mind, by multiplying the objects of enterprise, is not among the least considerable of the expedients,… — Alexander Hamilton
I now make it my earnest prayer that God would have you and the State over which you preside in His holy protection ... that… — George Washington
May the same wonderworking Deity, who long since delivered the Hebrews from their Egyptian oppressors and planted them in the promised land, whose Providential agency… — George Washington
No nation ought to be without a debt. A national debt is a national bond; and when it bears no interest, is in no case… — Thomas Paine
Call to mind the sentiments which nature has engraved on the heart of every citizen, and which take a new force when they are solemnly… — Thomas Paine
Certainly all those who have framed written constitutions contemplate them as forming the fundamental and paramount law of the nation, and consequently the theory of… — John Marshall
Besides the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation.... Notwithstanding the military establishments in the several… — James Madison
I entirely concur in the propriety of resorting to the sense in which the Constitution was accepted and ratified by the nation. In that sense… — James Madison

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