A Quotes
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“American ideals are superior to countries all across the world.”
“American ideals do not require to be changed so much as they require to be understood and applied.”
Source: America's Need for Education: And Other Educational Addresses
“American Idol allowed us to find Carrie Underwood.”
“American Idol rocks! It's on now and this episode is amazing!”
“American Idol transcends age, gender, ethnicity, everything.”
“American Idol' has done a great job of defaming my name and throwing a lot of mud at me for the past two years, so that set up a lot of roadblocks for me.”
“American Idol' is a $900 million-a-year corporation. When you are dealing with that, you can't come off with lies - it's either the truth or nothing.”
“American Idol, I love. I think it's a passing fancy but not passing so soon.”
“American imperialism has always been the imperialism that has been frightened of speaking its name. Now it's beginning to do so. In a way, it's better. We know where we kneel.”
“American imperialism has suffered a stunning defeat in Indochina. But the same forces are engaged In another war against a much less resilient enemy, the American people. Here, the prospects for success are much greater. The battleground is ideological, not military. At stake are the lessons to be drawn from the American war in Indochina; the outcome will determine the course and character of new imperial ventures.”
“American Independence Day celebrates our independence within ourselves.”
“American Indians would, you know, scalp them and desecrate the bodies, you know, tie them to cactuses or bury them in anthills or things like that, and you know, cut up the bodies and stuff. And then the other enemy soldiers would come across and find their comrades laying there, ripped apart, and they would be sickened by it and it would scare them.”
“American individualism, much celebrated and cherished, has developed without its essential corrective, which is belonging.”
Source: The American West as Living Space
“American industry is spilling over with men who started life even with the leaders, with brains just as big, with hands quite as capable. And yet one man emerges from the mass, rises sheer about his fellows; and the rest remain.”
Source: Succeeding With What You Have
“American inequality didn't just happen. It was created.”
Source: The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future
“American influence in Latin America has been at the disposal of whoever has wished to destroy the heritage of Spain and Portugal (whose daughter Brazil became an independent Empire under a Portuguese Prince in 1822). It has been a long hard struggle, with American-backed forces generally triumphing in the end. But the endurance of the Catholic Iberian tradition may be seen by the fact that the battle is not over yet.”
Source: Puritan's Empire
“American influence in the world is certainly considerable, but the United States does not control, directly or indirectly, the politics and economics of other societies, as empires have always done, save for a few special cases that turn out to be the exceptions that prove the rule.”
Source: The Case for Goliath: How America Acts as the World's Government in the
“American influence is not what it used to be.”
“American inventiveness and the desire to build developed because we were guaranteed the right to own our success.”
“American invents everything, but the trouble is we get tired of it the minute the new is wore off.”
Source: Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)
“American is deteriorating because it is becoming like other countries”
“American is the first democratic nation-state.”
“American Jewry makes any debate on whether the ‘Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion’ are an authentic document or a forgery irrelevant. American Jews do control the world.”
“American Jews are overwhelmingly liberal. By "liberal," I mean, basically, support for the rule of law, support for human rights, support for peace; and on all those counts - rule of law, human rights, peace - Israel's record has become indefensible.”
“American Jews, like Americans, have a very consumerist attitude toward their identity: they pick and choose the bits of this and that they like.”
“American journalism (like the journalism of any other country) is predominantly paltry and worthless. Its pretensions are enormous, but its achievements are insignificant.”
Source: Minority Report
“American journalism is a class institution, serving the rich and spurning the poor.”
Source: The Brass Check: A Study of American Journalism
“American Journalism is dead… They have behaved like hockey goalies in front of Barack Obama’s net.”
“American journalists and politicians made a perfect spectacle of themselves in discussing the Abu Ghraib prison controversy.”
“American journalists tend to treat inequality as a fact of life. But it needn't be.”
“American labor may now look to the future with confidence.”
“American labor rights activist, on activities of the National Farm Workers Association Human law may know no distinction among men in respect of rights, but human practice may.”
“American labor will realize that its function is not to increase jobs, but to multiply the wealth and to expand the numbers benefited by the wealth at the swiftest possible rate.”
“American ladies are known abroad for two distinguishing traits (besides, possibly, their beauty and self-reliance), and these are their ill-health and their extravagant devotion to dress.”
“American law needs to reflect gods law.”
“American law schools are accredited by the American Bar Association (ABA), which uses its power to promote diversity. In 2000, the ABA discovered that 93.5 percent of first-year students at George Mason University law school in northern Virginia were white. The ABA recognized that GMU had made a “very active effort to recruit minorities,” but said it had not done enough. With its accreditation at stake, GMU law school lowered standards for non-white applicants and admitted more: 10.98 percent in 2001 and 16.16 percent in 2002. That was still not enough. In 2003, the ABA summoned GMU’s president and law school dean and threatened them to their faces with disaccreditation unless they admitted more non-whites. GMU lowered standards even further, and managed to raise its non-white admissions to 17.3 percent in 2003, and 19 percent in 2004. This was still not good enough. “Of the 99 minority students in 2003,” the ABA complained, “only 23 were African American; of 111 minority students in 2004, the number of African Americans held at 23.” True diversity required more blacks, but what of the blacks GMU did admit? From 2003 to 2005, fully 45 percent had grade-point averages below 2.15, which was defined as “academic failure.” For non-black students, the figure was 4 percent. GMU officials pointed out that the ABA’s own Standard 501(b) says that “a law school shall not admit applicants who do not appear capable of satisfactorily completing its educational program and being admitted to the bar.” Law school dean Dan Polsby explained that this requirement was the greatest obstacle to increased diversity.”
Source: White Identity: Racial Consciousness in the 21st Century
“American laws don't work, but at least the laws of physics might work.”
“American leaders worry about the security of their country. Israeli leaders worry about the survival of their country.”
“American leadership is essential.”
“American leadership is not simply a matter of going it alone and bearing all of the burden ourselves.”
“American leadership looks to the world and just as Lincoln did sees the family of man. Humanity is not a zero-sum game.”
“American League teams don't bunt very often. National League teams bunt a lot.”
“American liberalism demands a rhetorical politeness from which the fascistic iteration of the modern Republican Party is fully free.”
Source: One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
“American liberty is a religion. It is a thing of the spirit.”
“American liberty is being destroyed by Marxist doctrines that explain society in terms of hegemonic and oppressed groups - whether classes, races or genders - fighting for suzerainty. In these societies spun out of Marxist theorizing, good will does not exist, only the material interests of warring groups. Morality resides in the oppressed, but if the oppressed succeed in becoming hegemonic, their claim to moral supremacy evaporates.”
“American liberty is premised on the accountability of free men and women for what they have done, not for what they may do.”
“American life is a powerful solvent. It seems to neutralize every intellectual element, however tough and alien it may be, and to fuse it in the native good will, complacency, thoughtlessness, and optimism.”
Source: Character & Opinion in the United States: With Reminiscences of William James and Josiah Royce and Academic Life in America
“American life is builded ... upon that fundamental philosophy announced by the Savior nineteen centuries ago ... [It] can not survive with the defense of Cain, "Am I my brother's keeper?”
“American life, in large cities, is a perpetual assault on the senses and the nerves; it is out of asceticism, out of unworldliness, precisely, that we bear it.”
“American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter”