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“Free enterprise, individual opportunity, limited government. They made America great; only they can keep America strong.”

Made Government America Opportunity Individual Strong Enterprise Limited Government Free Enterprise

Author:Reince Priebus

“The content and forms of American communications-the myths and the means of transmitting them-are devoted to manipulation. When successfully employed, as they invariably are, the result is individual passivity, a state of inertia that precludes action.”

Mean States Action America Form Individual Results Communication Myth Manipulation Devoted Employed Inertia Passivity

Author:Herbert Schiller

“Over no nation does the press hold a more absolute control than over the people of America, for the universal education of the poorest classes makes every individual a reader.”

People Doe America Individual Nations Class Reader Universal Absolutes Presses Newspapers Poorest Universal Education

Book:The Complete Works of Washington Irving: Short Stories, Plays, Historical Works, Poetry and Autobiographical Writings (Illustrated): The Entire Opus of the Prolific American Writer, Biographer and Historian, Including The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Bracebridge Hall and many more

Source: The Complete Works of Washington Irving: Short Stories, Plays, Historical Works, Poetry and Autobiographical Writings (Illustrated): The Entire Opus of the Prolific American Writer, Biographer and Historian, Including The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Bracebridge Hall and many more

“To a great extent the achievements of invention, of mechanical and of artistic creation, must of necessity, and rightly, be individual rather than governmental. It is the self-reliant pioneer in every enterprise who beats the path along which American civilization has marched. Such individual effort is the glory of America.”

Self America Individual Effort Path Creation Civilization Achievement Beats Glory Invention Artistic Enterprise Pioneers Self Reliant Individual Effort Artistic Creation

Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt

“You get to know people as individuals. The dreams of people may differ, but everybody wants their dreams to come true. And America, above all places, gives us the freedom to do that”

People Knows Want Giving May Dream America Individual

Book:An American Life

Source: An American Life

“The way America appreciates cinema is different from anywhere in the world. It's celebrated and supported. I don't just mean by the individuals, but financially as well people are throwing money at certain projects.”

People World Way Wells Mean Different America Certain Individual Projects Appreciate Cinema Throwing

Author:Jack O'Connell

“If you bring [tax] rates down, it makes it easier for small business to keep more of their capital and hire people. And for me, this is about jobs. I want to get America's economy going again. Fifty-four percent of America's workers work in businesses that are taxed as individuals. So when you bring those rates down, those small businesses are able to keep more money and hire more people.”

People Ifs Want Able Jobs America Individual Economy Four Easier Taxes Percent Workers Rate Fifty More Money Small Business

Author:Mitt Romney

“The black middle-class in America is a prosperous community that is now larger in absolute terms than the black underclass. Does its existence not suggest that economic adversity is the result of failures of individual character rather than the lingering after-effects of racial discrimination and a slave system that ceased to exist well over a century ago?”

“One of the most insidious consequences of the present burden of personal income tax is that it strips many middle class families of financial reserves & seems to lend support to campaigns for socialized medicine, socialized housing, socialized food, socialized every thing. The personal income tax has made the individual vastly more dependent on the State & more avid for state hand-outs. It has shifted the balance in America from an individual-centered to a State-centered economic & social system.”

“The people of Central America - and, in a broader sense, the entire developing world - need to know first-hand that freedom and opportunity are not just for the elite, but the birthright of every citizen; that property is not just something enjoyed by a few, but can be owned by any individual who works hard and makes correct decisions.”

People Knows World Needs Firsts Hard Hands America Opportunity Politics Individual Decision Economy Hard Work Citizens Property Enjoyed Developing Liberalism Elites Birthright Central America

Book:Ronald Reagan

Source: Ronald Reagan

“The establishment of religious freedom was no less momentous an achievement than the clearing of the great forest or the winning of independence, for the twin doctrines of separation of church and state and liberty of individual conscience are the marrow of our democracy, if not indeed America's most magnificent contribution to the freeing of Western man.”

“Of course there are individual racists in America. Sadly that's true. And sadly that will always be true. It's true in this country, it will be true because it's human nature.”

Humans Country America Courses Individual Human Nature Being True Racist

Author:Monica Crowley

“Developed countries will always welcome the Einsteins of this world - those individuals whose talents are already recognized and deemed to have value. This welcome doesn't usually extend to the poor and uneducated people seeking to enter the country. But the truth, supported by the facts of history and the richness of immigrant contribution to America's distinction in the world, is that the most entrepreneurial, innovative, motivated citizen is the one who has been given an opportunity and wants to repay the debt.”

“What frightens me about America today is that in the large majority there is no active sense of the value of the individual: few citizens feel that they are the Republic, responsible for what happens. And when the individual in a democracy ceases to feel his importance, then there is grave danger that he will give over his freedom, if not to a Fascist State, then to the advertising men or Publicity Agents or to the newspaper he happens to read.”

“Poor America, of what avail is all her wealth, if the individuals comprising the nation are wretchedly poor? If they live in squalor, in filth, in crime, with hope and joy gone, a homeless, soulless army of human prey.”

Ifs Humans America Joy Individual Nations Wealth Poor United States Gone Crime Army Homeless Prey Filth Soulless Squalor

Author:Emma Goldman

“Let America symbolize humanity's struggle to conquer nature and master technology. The time has now come for our Government to facilitate the individual's control over his or her future - and of the future of America.”

Government America Humanity Individual Technology Struggle Masters Conquer Facilitate Future Of America

Author:Gerald R. Ford

“In nothing was slavery so savage and relentless as in its attempted destruction of the family instincts of the Negro race in America. Individuals, not families; shelters, not homes; herding, not marriages, were the cardinal sins in that system of horrors.”

Home America Individual Sin Race Family Horror Destruction Slavery Instinct Shelter Savages Relentless Cardinals Race In America

Author:Fannie Barrier Williams

“I developed the concept of the Happy Warrior as a rallying cry for those of us who want to restore America to its great foundational principles: individual freedom, personal responsibility, fiscal restraint, and economic liberty.”

Want America Individual Responsibility Liberty Principles Economic Cry Concepts Warrior Restraint Personal Responsibility Individual Freedom Rallying Rallying Cry

Author:Monica Crowley

“The growth of entrepreneurial classes throughout the world is an asset in the promotion of human rights and individual liberty, and it should be understood and used as such. Yet peace is the first and most important condition for continued prosperity and freedom. America's military power must be secure because the United States is the only guarantor of global peace and stability. The current neglect of America's armed forces threatens its ability to maintain peace.”

“I obviously disagree with the individuals who do not support rural America and do not support rural airports. Under their philosophy, maybe we shouldnt even be paving roads in rural America, because there are fewer people that drive on them.”

People Philosophy America Individual Support Disagree Fewer Airports Rural America Paving

Author:Glenn Thompson

“America will nurture a new Muslim - one who can believe in Muhammad and the Quran but who abandons belief in a Shariah-based state and affirms the primary American value of individual liberty, which has not been a normative Islamic value.”

Believe States America Values Individual Belief Liberty Primaries Islamic Abandon Nurture Muhammad Quran Individual Liberty American Values

Author:Dennis Prager