A Quotes
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“America can restore its strengths as the world-respected land of opportunity by returning to open-society principles. An open society invests in people and new ideas, rewards talent and hard work, values dialogue and learns from dissent, operates to high standards with transparent information, looks for common ground, sees problems as opportunities for creative change, and encourages those who are fortunate to help others get the same chance, because service is the highest ideal. With such standards in mind, America the Beautiful can return to its admired role as America the Principled.”
Source: America the Principled: 6 Opportunities for Becoming a Can-Do Nation Once Again
“America can take man to the moon, and America can take men to Mars - and beyond.”
“America can well expect to develop a goodly amount of composers for she has a goodly number of people.”
“America can't beat anyone anymore.”
“America can't provide health care to people who need it. We can't invest in science and technology, which will determine whether or not we are going to be competitive in the long term. There has never been a country on Earth that saw its economy decline and yet maintained its military superiority.”
“America can't succeed unless you succeed. That is why I am running for president of the United States.”
“America can't work for only some people and become a dream for all people. It has to work for everyone. And even though everyone might not end up at the same place, if everyone starts with the same beginning, then that's the dream fulfilled. We all don't have the same abilities, but we should have the same opportunities.”
“America cannot afford a rally to restore sanity in the middle of a recession. Did you even consider how many panic-related jobs that might cost us in the fear-industrial complex?”
“America cannot be America in the new century until it deals with these new questions of gender, including the trans issues, and the questions around faith and Islam.”
“America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand.”
“America cannot commit to go to war on behalf of 50 countries around the world because that is the formula that is one day going to break down and break out into war.”
“America cannot continue to lead the family of nations around the world if we suffer the collapse of the family here at home.”
“America cannot do most of what needs to be done alone. You need friends. And we have good friends around the world. We have friends with whom we share values in Europe and Asia - thanks to the forward march of democracy - in Latin America, in Africa, and increasingly in the Middle East.”
“America cannot endure permanently half 1776 and half 1789. The compromises, contradictions, hypocrisies, inequities, and evils have built up unaddressed. The grapes of wrath have ripened again, and the choice before America is plain. Either America goes forward best by going back first, or America is about to reap a future in which the worst will once again be the corruption of the best.”
Source: The Magna Carta of Humanity: Sinai's Revolutionary Faith and the Future of Freedom
“America cannot have an empire abroad and a Republic at home.”
“America cannot mend if its wounds are constantly covered.”
Source: Song of Redemption: A southern historical saga inspired by true events
“America cannot mend if its wounds are constantly covered and not treated.”
Source: Song of Redemption: A southern historical saga inspired by true events
“America cannot survive a regime as an international tyrant. Only through cooperation of nations will the citizens of world thrive.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“America cannot turn its back on the economic future and women-owned businesses are part of that future.”
“America certainly has made extraordinary progress. The collective unconscious of the nation has certainly shifted as a result of the civil rights movement and the developments in the '70s and '80s. We have witnessed a great expansion of the black middle class.”
“America champions the underdog. We champion the underdog until he's not the underdog anymore, and he annoys us.”
“America changed my life, but I still think of home and working in Scotland was an important part of that.”
“America comes from a flawed but wonderful idea. Many great things have sprung forth over the past few hundred years but there were deep issues in the beginning that now are starting to show up.”
“America comes with both rights and responsibilities. You have, for example, the right to free speech, but you have the responsibility to not yell 'fire' in a crowded theater. If you don't live up to that responsibility, you face certain consequences. It's a simple but effective formula. Unfortunately, tenured professors are completely insulated from it. They can scream fire in their classrooms all they want - and then hide behind their tenure if anyone questions them on it.”
Source: Cowards: What Politicians, Radicals, and the Media Refuse to Say
“America could carry on a two years' war by the confiscation of the property of disaffected persons, and be made happy by their expulsion. Say not that this is revenge, call it rather the soft resentment of a suffering people, who, having no object in view but the good of all, have staked their own all upon a seemingly doubtful event. Yet it is folly to argue against determined hardness; eloquence may strike the ear, and the language of sorrow draw forth the tear of compassion, but nothing can reach the heart that is steeled with prejudice.”
Source: THE AMERICAN CRISIS – Revolutionary Work Which Inspired the American People to Fight for Their Independence: Including
“America creates myths by focusing a lot of energy on its history and using it - - not always, but sometimes - for constructive purposes.”
“America cultivates best what Germany brought forth.”
“America decided we were going to stand by and let Americans die at the hands of terrorists a long time ago”
“America demands invention and innovation to succeed.”
“America derives its laws from its Constitution. It derives its values from the Bible. We don't get inalienable rights from the Constitution; we get them from God.”
“America deserves a nominee who reveres the law, not one whose service on the bench is conditioned on political promises.”
“America deserves a real discussion about real policy.”
“America deserves common sense immigration reform that reflects our interests and our values as Americans.”
“America deserves to heal. For our great nation to heal, the truth must be told, and we all should effortlessly come together. America needs deep healing and cleansing. We owe it to ourselves and our nation to speak the truth about our roots. That is the only way to heal completely.”
Source: Why Are You Obsessed with My Race?
“America desperately needs a moral rebirth. We need to implore God's blessings on our country and ask Him to forgive our sinfulness and restore our moral perspective.”
“America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.”
Source: Talking Peace: A Vision for the Next Generation
“America did not need to be discovered because quite simply America had the American-Indians. There were whole groups of people that already lived there including very developed societies such as the Incas, the Aztecs, and the Mayans. But then came the European vision that saw the conquest as a source of advanced growth away from medieval Europe. The new revolutionary bourgeois trend formed a new perspective on what was democracy that they saw as an improvement to the democracy of ancient Greece.”
“America did not tell the millions of men and women who came from every country in the world and who - with their hands, their intelligence and their heart - built the greatest nation in the world: "Come, and everything will be given to you." She said: "Come, and the only limits to what you'll be able to achieve will be your own courage and your own talent."”
“America didn’t start burning right now, and it is not burning because Black people are 'overreacting' or committing 'violence'. America has always been burning for many people. If you haven’t felt that America has always been burning, then you are – consciously or unconsciously – part of the structural, systemic, and calculated racism and marginalization committed against Blacks and other marginalized people in America. If you haven’t always felt that America was burning, you are part of the problem and you may want to consider joining the camp of those looking for solution to put an end to this nightmarish reality.”
“America didn't create religious liberty. Religious liberty created America.”
“America didn't have a drug problem before it passed drug laws. While drugs were consumed by large numbers of people — the number of women habituated to the opium found in laudanum was, no pun intended, staggering — they were, for the most part, easily able to live their lives, do their jobs, and raise their families pretty much the way we do today.”
“America didn't need repeal, she needed repentance!”
“America didn’t bypass or escape civilization. It did something far more profound, far cleverer: it simply changed what civilization could be.”
Source: To America with Love
“America does not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlements.”
“America does not at the moment have a functioning democracy.”
“America does not concern itself now with Impressionism. We own no involved philosophy. The psyche of the land is to be found in its movement. It is to be felt as a dramatic force of energy and vitality. We move; we do not stand still. We have not yet arrived at the stock-taking stage.”
“America does not fight for land, glory or riches.”
“America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy.”
“America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own. Sir Anthony Hopkins portrayal of me was adequate. I do believe that my sideburns were of substantially higher quality, however.”
“America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She well knows that by enlisting under other banners than her own, were they even the banners of foreign independence, she would involve herself beyond the power of extrication in all the wars of interest and intrigue, of individual avarice, envy and ambition, which assume the colors and usurp the standards of freedom.”