Best United States Qoutes
3666 United States quotes by 1934 unique authors
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Clearly the Secretary of Defense, my boss, would like nothing better than to get Osama bin Laden and to get... to ensure the complete defeat…
— John Abizaid
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Vietnam presumably taught us that the United States could not serve as the world's policeman; it should also have taught us the dangers of trying…
— Jeane Kirkpatrick
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Let us understand: North Vietnam cannot defeat or humiliate the United States. Only Americans can do that.
— Richard M. Nixon
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The most important thing we can do is prosecute the offenders, deal with those that have broken the law and committed this crime. And if…
— Leon Panetta
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Military activities (are) not a role for the United States. There needs to be a number of steps that Maliki and his government must take…
— Hillary Clinton
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This cannot be the United States being the air force for Shia militias, or a Shia on Sunni Arab fight.
— David Petraeus
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Why are they making rules that say my lover can stay in the United States if they're foreign or share my health care benefits because…
— Natalie Portman
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Imagine a room awash in gasoline, and there are two implacable enemies in that room. One of them has nine thousand matches. The other has…
— Carl Sagan
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She is a 13-year-old girl who shares Amanda's name, and politely explained that she could not give up the website. Why? Because the younger Amanda…
— Eva Longoria
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I spent several years in a North Vietnamese prison camp, in the dark, fed with scraps. Do you think I want to do that all…
— John McCain
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Do they think that I am such a damned fool as to think myself fit for President of the United States? No, sir; I know…
— Andrew Jackson
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The United States is the greatest law factory the world has ever known.
— Charles Evans Hughes
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The United States and the freedom for which it stands, the freedom for which they died, must endure and prosper. Their lives remind us that…
— Ronald Reagan
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Today, the United States stands as a beacon of liberty and democratic strength before the community of nations. We are resolved to stand firm against…
— Ronald Reagan
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We know that this nation entered into solemn treaties [with Indian tribes] which have been continuously violated for more than 250 years. It's a disgrace.…
— John McCain
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And that the said Constitution be never construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press, or the rights of conscience; or…
— Samuel Adams
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From a comparative perspective, the United States is unusual if not unique in the lack of restraints on freedom of expression. It is also unusual…
— Noam Chomsky
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Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe…
— Winston Churchill
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Nothing whatever but the constitutional law, the political structure, of these United States protects any American from arbitrary seizure of his property and his person,…
— Rose Wilder Lane
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Roughly speaking, the President of the United States knows what his job is. Constitution and custom spell it out, for him as well as for…
— Shana Alexander
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The libertarian creed...offers the fulfillment of the best of the American past along with the promise of a far better future. Libertarians are squarely in…
— Murray Rothbard
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The Trilateralist Commission is international...(and)...is intended to be the vehicle for multinational consolidation of the commercial and banking interests by seizing control of the political…
— Barry Goldwater
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Try this thought experiment. Pretend you're a tyrant. Among your many liberty-destroying objectives are extermination of blacks, Jews and Catholics. Which would you prefer, a…
— Walter E. Williams
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I have ever deemed it fundamental for the United States never to take active part in the quarrels of Europe. Their political interests are entirely…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The economic miracle that has been the United States was not produced by socialized enterprises, by government-unon-industry cartels or by centralized economic planning. It was…
— Milton Friedman
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