Two Centuries Quotes

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Knowing that the 'Sex and the City' chicks now rack up almost two centuries between them, why do some of us fuss and hiss about… — Julie Burchill
James Watt patented his steam engine on the eve of the American Revolution, consummating a relationship between coal and the new Promethean spirit of the… — Jeremy Rifkin
...for two centuries supporters of the Electoral College have built their arguments on a series of faulty premises. The Electoral College is a gross violation… — George C. Edwards III
I'm really convinced that our descendants a century or two from now will look back at us with the same pity that we have toward… — John Templeton
During the last two centuries and a half, physical knowledge has been gradually made to rest upon a basis which it had not before. It… — Augustus De Morgan
For the past two centuries, those who do not prize freedom have chipped away at every major clause of our Constitution until today we face… — Ezra Taft Benson
Fellow Americans, our duty is before us tonight. Let us go forward, determined to serve selflessly a vision of man with God, government for people,… — Ronald Reagan
Some time ago a little-known Scottish philosopher wrote a book on what makes nations succeed and what makes them fail. The Wealth of Nations is… — George Akerlof
For as long as I can remember, I have been inspired by the achievement of our Founding Fathers. They set forth principles that have endured… — Sonia Sotomayor
What makes us exceptional, what makes us America is our allegiance to an idea articulated in a declaration made more than two centuries ago. We… — Barack Obama
The present illegitimacy ratio is not only unprecedented in the past two centuries; it is unprecedented, so far as we know, in American history going… — Gertrude Himmelfarb
The coal plants that will be built from 2005 to 2030 will release as much carbon dioxide as all of the coal burned since the… — Joseph J. Romm
Has not the experience of two centuries shown that gradualism in theory is perpetuity in practice? Is there an instance, in the history of the… — William Lloyd Garrison
It is indeed an odd business that it has taken this Court nearly two centuries to discover a constitutional mandate to have counsel at a… — Warren E. Burger
But the whole history of America is quite different from Europe. People went there to get away from the intolerance and constraints of life in… — Margaret Thatcher
The First Amendment reads more like a dream than a law, and no other nation, so far as I know, has been crazy enough to… — Kurt Vonnegut
For more than two centuries our foreparents labored here without wages; they made cotton king; and they built the homes of their masters in the… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
We must show new energy in fighting back an old evil. Nearly two centuries after the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade, and more than… — George W. Bush
The idea of America endures. Our destiny remains our choice. And tonight, more than two centuries later, it is because of our people that our… — Barack Obama
For more than two centuries since winning our own freedom, we the people of the United States have repeatedly answered the call to lead the… — Mac Thornberry

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