Best Our American Quotes
54 Our American quotes by 49 unique authors
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When they talk about family values, it's in a repressive way, as if our American tradition were only the Puritan tradition or the 19th century…
— James Hillman
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Much of our American progress has been the product of the individual who had an idea; pursued it; fashioned it; tenaciously clung to it against…
— Hubert H. Humphrey
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Sugar crystallizes something in our American Soul. It is emblematic of all Industrial Processes. And of the idea of becoming white. White Being equated with…
— Kara Walker
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More than 90 percent of all the prisoners in our American prisons have been abused as children.
— John Powell
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Students of American glass must always keep in mind that the creations they collect are truly examples of our American culture... and thus have historical…
— James Lafferty
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Homelessness is a part of our American system. There should be nothing wrong with this condition as long as the individual is not sentenced to…
— Jerzy Kosinski
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The logical man must either deny all miracles or none, and our American Indian myths and hero stories are perhaps, in themselves, quite as credible…
— Charles Alexander Eastman
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Take a stand against intolerance and for our American values. Say it with pride: I support democracy in America. I support working people in America.…
— Richard Trumka
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I grew up in the South, so a huge part of our American History education revolved around the Civil War.
— Anson Mount
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It is no accident that I mention our American friends, as they are always influencing our relations with our neighbors either directly or behind the…
— Vladimir Putin
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The love of liberty is a common blood that flows in our American veins.
— Jimmy Carter
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Our American friends offer us money, arms, and advice. We take the money, we take the arms, and we decline the advice.
— Moshe Dayan
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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
— Sinclair Lewis
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We need to reclaim our American system of limited government, low taxes, reasonable regulations, and sound money, which has blessed us with unprecedented prosperity. And…
— Paul Ryan
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Our military doesn't defend our American people. Our military is the strong-arm muscle of corporations.
— Jesse Ventura
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It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing.
— Albert Einstein
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Liberty is lost through complacency and a subservient mindset. When we accept or even welcome automobile checkpoints, random searches, mandatory identification cards, and paramilitary police…
— Ron Paul
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The lack of emotional security of our American young people is due, I believe, to their isolation from the larger family unit. No two people…
— Pearl S. Buck
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My children speak very good Chinese, and they translate for our American friends.
— Wendi Deng Murdoch
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Nothing can be more striking to one who is accustomed to the little inclosures called public parks in our American cities, than the spacious, open…
— William Cullen Bryant
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I am especially proud of taking on issues most central to the health of our American democracy.
— Chellie Pingree
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Our workers, our American people who are already struggling, are going to continue to struggle until we can get somebody who can bring some business…
— Bobby Schilling
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It is true that as people, we tend to remember only the positive. With time, the grim details fade away, and as a species we…
— Colman Domingo
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Occasionally, the horrors of life in North Korea do show up in our American satire.
— Jennifer Armintrout
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Our American story, for generations, is of a people who seek to move forward. A people who look at a mountain and worry not about…
— Bill Owens
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