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“America is not the crude stereotype of a self-interested empire. The United States has been one of the greatest sources of progress that the world has ever known. We were born out of revolution against an empire. We were founded upon the ideal that all are created equal. And we have shed blood and struggled for centuries to give meaning to those words, within our borders and around the world. We are shaped by every culture. Drawn from every end of the Earth, and dedicated to a simple concept, E pluribus unum: Out of many, one.”
“America is not the only one who should decide about the policies toward Iran.”
“America is not the world.”
Source: Autobiografía
“America is not what's wrong with the world.”
“America is now a land that rewards failure - at the personal, corporate, and state level.”
“America is now a socialist economy. The definition of a socialist economy is when 50% or more of your economy is dependent on the federal government.”
“America is now a space-faring nation. a frontier good for millions of years. The only time remotely comparable was when Columbus discovered a whole new world.”
“America is now liberty-conscious. In a single generation it has progressed from being toothbrush-conscious, to being air-minded, to being liberty-conscious.”
“America is now the dominant force and the only countervailing force is Europe.”
“America is now the only global superpower, and Eurasia is the globe's central arena. Hence, what happens to the distribution of power on the Eurasian continent will be of decisive importance to America's global primacy and to America's historical legacy.”
Source: The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy And Its Geostrategic Imperatives
“America is now wholly given over to a d--d mob of scribbling women, and I should have no chance of success while the public taste is occupied with their trash - and should be ashamed of myself if I did succeed. What is the mystery of these innumerable editions of the Lamplighter, and other books neither better nor worse? - worse they could not be, and better they need not be, when they sell by 100,000.”
Source: The Scarlet Letter and Other Writings
“America is now wholly given over to a damned mob of scribbling women, and I should have no chance of success while the public taste is occupied with their trash.”
“America is now wholly given over to a damned mob of scribbling women, and I should have no chance of success while the public taste is occupied with their trash--and should be ashamed of myself if I did succeed. What is the mystery of these innumberable editions of The Lamplighter (by Maria Susanna Cummins), and other books neither better nor worse? Worse they could not be, and better they need not be, when they sell by the hundred thousand.”
“America is number one in wind power.”
“America is old tobacco: gold and green. It's lush and literally feels like wealth, like optimism, turn of the century America where everything was blooming.”
“America is on a course, now, that will lead to the final conflagration, The Final War - which has been cold, pretty much, up to now. But it will become hot, and the whole world will be engulfed in this Final War that I think these policies from our government will bring into existence.”
“America is on her deathbed.”
“America is one long expectoration.”
Source: The picture of Dorian Gray: a modern theatre adaptation of Oscar Wilde's classic novel
“America is one of the biggest businesses in the world, and the people who run it can't balance their budget. We need business people in there and lobbyists out of there.”
“America is one of the few places where the failure to promote oneself is widely regarded as arrogance.”
“America is one of the most prosperous countries on earth because of the freedoms Americans enjoy.”
Source: Behind the Black Mask: My Time as an Antifa Activist
“America is or should be about inclusion. Immigrants like muslims don't and can't fit the white European mold that prevailed in this country 50 years ago.”
“America is our continent. You feel in the daily language that Americans use the word "America" to erase the rest of the continent from the map. And, of course, the language is clearly a reflection of the geopolitical reality: the domination of the United States over the rest of the continent.”
“America, is paradise found.”
“America is perhaps best viewed as an 'authoritarian democracy' within its own territory and as 'a global state' of a new kind when considered internationally.”
“America is perhaps excessively mobile in the sense that there is sometimes not enough stability in communities. Dynamism in the economy is not necessarily the "be all and end all".”
“America is pretty split.”
“America is promises to take! America is promises to us to take them.”
Source: Collected Poems, 1917-1982
“America is proud of what it does to its writers, the way it breaks and bedevils them, rendering them deluded or drunken or dead by their own hands. To overpower its tender spirits makes America feel tough. Careers are generally short.”
“America is racial. America was founded on race. Race is America. The code name for America is 'race.'”
“America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to be large.”
“America is ready for livable communities. America is ready for high-speed rail.”
“America is really tough on mothers, especially going to work again. A lot of women have to breast-pump, and they can't do that at work, and they only have two weeks' maternity leave. I'm very lucky that I get to pick and choose. And it helps that all my agents are women, and very protective of me. But for other working mothers here, support from their employers is not good enough. It shouldn't even be an issue. It's really important to be able to raise your kid without a fear of losing your job.”
“America is replicated at every level of British life, from the taxi driver to the prime minister.”
Source: Free World: America, Europe, and the Surprising Future of the West
“America is Republican until 5:00 or 6:00 at night.”
“America is ripe for lies and lethargy. The pure mountain air is going and gone. It is a huge burden and a sadness for us all.”
“America is rising with a giant's strength. Its bones are yet but cartilages.”
Source: Works of Fisher Ames
“America is run by corporations, it is run by banks and Wall Street. That's why we can't get guns under control. It's because all these lobbyists don't want gun control, they don't want us to have strong environmental safety guards. Young people can become aware of that and they are the most powerful lobby. With a click of a text, you can have millions of people voting for one person.”
“America is run by the rich and powerful in their own interest. To an extent that I think is hard to exaggerate, the intellectuals - academics, journalists and so on - are bought off. And that's a big change that happened in the United States in the last 30 or 40 years.”
“America is running a fever, but there are no emergency rooms.”
“America is said to have the highest per capita boredom of any spot on earth! We know that because we have the greatest number of artificial amusements of any country. People have become so empty that they can't even entertain themselves. They have to pay other people to amuse them, to make then laugh, to try to make them feel warm and happy and comfortable for a few minutes, to try to lose that awful, frightening, hollow feeling-that terrible, dreaded feeling of being lost and alone.”
Source: Billy Graham: The Inspirational Writings
“America is simultaneously the most attractive and most repulsive place on the planet. It is most loved and most hated.”
“America is sinking under the crushing weight of the ever-expanding regulatory state. This burden threatens to disrupt our recovery, hamper long-term growth, undermine our global competitiveness, and suffocate the entrepreneurial spirit so vital to America's success.”
“America is so caught up in this celebrity mania!”
“America is so special, everybody wants to go there. And there's not a thought given to how it got special. It's just assumed it was made that way, I guess. It's just assumed that it's just there. And it's also assumed that it's always going to be there. Call it the golden goose or whatever you want but everybody saying that we have no right to keep anybody out because nobody kept us out, we all had to get here. Nobody here now actually started here. Of course, that's no longer true.”
“America is so varied and exciting that after six months, you go back and find it completely changed.”
“America is so vast that almost everything said about it is likely to be true, and the opposite is probably equally true.”
“America is still a country of choices and options. And I have a lot of them.”
“America is still a free country - nobody is saying it isn't - but we accept that, in the face of discernible risk, or even imaginable risk, the government has an obligation to step in and save us.”
“America is still a frontier country of wide open spaces. Our closeness to nature is one reason why our problem is not repression but regression; our notorious violence is the constant eruption of primi-tiveness, of anarchic individualism.”