“A man who murders another shortens by a few brief years the life of a human being; but he who votes to increase the burden of debts upon the people of the United States assumes a graver responsibility.” PeopleMenYearsHumansStatesHuman BeingsUnitedResponsibilityUnited StatesVoteIncreaseMurderAssumingBurdenDebt Book:The Life and Speeches of Hon. Wm. Jennings Bryan Source: The Life and Speeches of Hon. Wm. Jennings Bryan
“If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America. They don't care for human beings.... What I am condemning is that one power, with a president [George W. Bush] who has no foresight, who cannot think properly, is now wanting to plunge the world into a holocaust.” IfsThinkingWorldHumansCountryStatesCareAmericaPresidentHuman BeingsUnitedUnited StatesCommittedDon't CareHolocaustUnited States Of AmericaForesightPlungeAtrocitiesUnspeakableCondemningPresident George W Bush Author:Nelson Mandela
“Americans ... attach such a fantastic importance to their baths and plumbing and gadgets of all sorts. They talk as if people could hardly be human beings without all that; we in Europe are beginning to wonder if people can be human beings with it.” PeopleIfsHumansHuman BeingsWonderUnited StatesComfortEuropeImportanceFantasticBathsGadgetsPlumbing Book:Singing Waters Source: Singing Waters
“Every human being born within the United States of parents not owing allegiance to any foreign sovereignty is in the language of your Constitution itself, a natural born citizen.” HumansStatesLanguageParentBornNaturalHuman BeingsUnitedUnited StatesCitizensConstitutionSovereigntyAllegianceOwing Author:John Bingham
“The government of the United States, under Lyndon Johnson, proposes to concern itself over the quality of American life. And this is something very new in the political theory of free nations. The quality of life has heretofore depended on the quality of the human beings who gave tone to that life, and they were its priests and its poets, not its bureaucrats.” HumansStatesGovernmentPoliticalNationsHuman BeingsUnitedQualityUnited StatesPoetTheoryConcernTonePriestsProposeQuality Of LifeJohnsonBureaucratsAmerican LifePolitical Theory Author:William F. Buckley, Jr.