A Quotes
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“America shudders at anything alien, and when it wants to shut its mind against any man's ideas it calls him a foreigner.”
“America Singer, one day you will fall asleep in my arms every night. And you'll wake up to my kisses every morning.”
Source: The Selection Series 3-Book Collection: The Selection, The Elite, The One, The Prince, The Guard
“America Singer, you get back here." He ran in front of me, wrapping an arm around my waist as we stood, chest to chest. "Tell me," he whispered. I pinched my lips together. "Fine, then I shall have to rely on other means of communication." Without any warning, he kissed me.”
Source: The Elite
“America slept because most Americans preferred it that way.”
“America somehow thinks that leadership relates to governance, and it certainly does. But society is much bigger than governance, and some of the truly great leadership of our society is outside the governance arena.”
“America sometimes resembles, at least from the point of view of a black man, an exceedingly monotonous minstrel show; the same dances, same music, same jokes. One has done (or been) the show so long that one can do it in one’s own sleep.”
“America spends billions of dollars protecting the borders of other countries around the world. It's high time we start protecting our own.”
“America stakes a relatively modest claim to world history when compared to other nations. Perhaps this lack of historical longevity partially accounts for why each generation of Americans tends to define themselves based largely upon the flashbulb remembrances that took place during their lifetime. Despite the relative newness of The United States of America emergence as a great power, post-Vietnam Americans display no deeply entwined interest in their national heritage. The battle cries of the American Revolution, the Civil War, and the battle hymns of World War I and World War II seem like ancient relics in the springtime commencement of the digital age. Today’s consumerism society brazenly casted aside the legacy of its predecessors similar to how one would toss away a functionally obsolete toaster, bulky television set, or land phone when the newest and slimmest best thing comes along. It is a fundamental mistake to forget the embryonic stages of America. When a nation’s citizens respect the accomplishments of its ancestors, the populous feels spiritually rooted. Without a clear vision and a unified approach, America will never become the beacon of universal justice.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“America stands as a beacon of hope and the possibility of a better life - but it is also a nation where nearly 1 in 4 children live in poverty.”
“America stands for freedom, liberty and justice for all. And it's not happening for all right now.”
“America stands for individual liberty, but that means an ordered liberty.”
“America stands for liberty, for the pursuit of happiness and for the unalienable right for life. This right to life cannot be granted or denied by government because it does not come from government, it comes from the creator of life.”
“America stands for the land of opportunity.”
“America stands strongest in challenging terrorism when we do not give up an inch of our civil liberties.”
“America stands unique in the world: the only country not founded on race but on a way, an ideal. Not in spite of but because of our polyglot background, we have had all the strength in the world. That is the American way.”
Source: Ronald Reagan
“America still is an exceptional country. We love to lead and we love to win. And we do it, when we take on any challenge and when we take - we support our friends.”
“America still is the center of the world, and what happens in the American economy matters everywhere.”
“America stood at the summit of power, emerging from the Cold War as an economic, cultural and military force without equal.”
Source: Against the Tide: How a Compliant Congress Empowered a Reckless President
“America stopped making vinyl and phased out the single but Germany held out and refused. Warner's never phased out vinyl in Germany. Now America imports it!”
“America suffers from the Oedipus Complex. It wants to kill its father (England) and fuck its mother (Christianity, the Virgin Mary).”
Source: Locusts, Hollywood, and the Valley of Ashes: Individualism Versus Collectivism
“America takes her writers too seriously.”
Source: Amis Collection
“America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.”
“America that has done more to support Israel than any other country cannot be true to our own values if we allow a viable two-state solution to be destroyed before our own eyes.”
“America that is divided against itself cannot stand, and we cannot say we have all of this unity they say we have when black people are being discriminated against in every city in America I have visited.”
“America the Beautiful, or so you used to be,
Land of the Pilgrims' pride, I'm glad they're not here to see,
Babies piled in dumpsters, abortion on demand,
Oh, sweet land of liberty, your house is on the sand.”
“America the brave
Still fears what we don't know”
“America, the Land of the __________ and the home of the __________? Truth is, you or I haven't a clue. You know I'm right.”
“America, the plum blossoms are falling.”
“America thinks of itself as a meritocracy, so people have more respect for success and more contempt for failure.”
“America, this is what my God has told me about you—
you field of dying sunflowers, you semiautomatic gun slinging unsanctuary, you
apparition that is the crowd gathered beneath yet another oak tree on the postcard—
Justice is not a pendulum Justice is not a hammer Justice is not a bandage
it is water, and your better angels have long sung of its rolling tide,
calling those things which are not as though they were. Am I crazy,
America, letting you inside me again and again though you do not even love me...”
“America today has insufficient savings to finance both crucial investment and its consumption of imports.”
Source: The great reckoning: how the world will change in the depression of the 1990s
“America today is a confused society, caught up in a terror war, a culture war, and a media war, where honesty and professional standards have vanished.”
“America today is running on the momentum of a godly ancestry, and when that momentum runs down, God help America.”
“America today stands poised on a pinnacle of wealth and power, yet we live in a land of vanishing beauty, of increasing ugliness, of shrinking open space, and of an over-all environment that is diminished daily by pollution and noise and blight.”
Source: The Quiet Crisis
“America took me into her bosom when there was no longer a country worthy of the name, but in my heart I am German - German in my soul.”
“America touts itself as the land of the free, but the number one freedom that you and I have is the freedom to enter into a subservient role in the workplace. Once you exercise this freedom you’ve lost all control over what you do, what is produced, and how it is produced. And in the end, the product doesn’t belong to you. The only way you can avoid bosses and jobs is if you don’t care about making a living. Which leads to the second freedom: the freedom to starve.”
“America traditionally represents the greatest possibility of someone's going from nothing to something. Why? In theory, if not practice, the government stays out of the way and lets individuals take risks and reap rewards or accept the consequences of failure. We call this capitalism - or, at least, we used to.”
“America treasures the relationship we have with our many Muslim friends, and we respect the vibrant faith of Islam which inspires countless individuals to lead lives of honesty, integrity, and morality. This year, may Eid also be a time in which we recognize the values of progress, pluralism, and acceptance that bind us together as a Nation and a global community. By working together to advance mutual understanding, we point the way to a brighter future for all.”
“America under 30 is a more non-whites place than America over 60. And we know that non-whites and whites vote differently.”
“America under Barack Obama has become a defensive, reactive and weaker country both at home and abroad.”
“America undermines its own ideals when it ignores the very values it is promoting around the world. You cannot ask other people in the world to follow the law and act responsibly if we don't do the same... and being afraid is not an excuse.”
“America united with a handful of troops, or without a single soldier, exhibits a more forbidding posture to foreign ambition than America disunited, with a hundred thousand veterans ready for combat.”
Source: The Federalist, on the new constitution, written in 1788, with an appendix, containing the letters of Pacificus and Helvidius on the proclamation of neutrality of 1793, also the original articles of confederation and the constitution of the United States
“America used to have a strong 'moral safety net' for its people. Today that net is badly frayed, not only because families are disintegrating but also because the church doesn't play the same role that it once did in many Americans' lives.”
“America used to live by the motto "Father Knows Best." Now we're lucky if "Father Knows He Has Children." We've become a nation of sperm donors and baby daddies.”
“America wants its respect.”
“America wants solutions. America wants a leader. No more tabloid politics.”
“America wants to work with friends, with allies, with people of good will, to make this a better world.”
“America was a special country, because, despite the diversity of our racial, religious, and ethnic origins, we were all one nation, one people with a shared set of values and a common culture.”
Source: Wait Till Next Year
“America was always a huge goal, if not the goal. I always wanted to move to America. I always wanted to come here and see what opportunities were around. I really only got a couple of auditions a year when I was in Australia, for acting work.”
“America was an iceberg shattered into a billion fragments, and on each stood a person, rotating like an ice floe in a storm.”
Source: The Child Finder