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“Thou knowest how numerous this tribe is, how united and how powerful in the assemblies. I will plead in a low voice so that only the judges may hear, for instigators are not lacking to stir up the crowd against me, and against all the best citizens. To scorn, in the interest of the Republic, this multitude of Jews so often turbulent in the assemblies shows a singular strength of mind. The money is in the Treasury; they do not accuse us of theft; they seek to stir up hatreds.”

“A U.S. Senator should have the same right as a member of the Knesset...to disagree with any government when its actions may not be in the United States' interest.”

Should May States Government Action Interest United United States Members Should Have Jew Disagree Senators

Author:Charles H. Percy

“I am convinced the next major attack against the United States may well be conducted by people with Asian or African faces, not the ones that many Americans are alert to.”

People Wells May States Faces Next United United States Majors Convinced Asian

Author:George Tenet

“Iraq... has also had contacts with al-Qaida. Their ties may be limited by divergent ideologies, but the two sides' mutual antipathy toward the United States and the Saudi royal family suggests that tactical cooperation between them is possible.”

May Two States Sides United United States Iraq Contact Ideology Ties Mutual Als Cooperation Royal Two Sides Saudis Divergent Royal Family Tactical Antipathy

Author:George Tenet

“Nashville may be famed for its country music, but this may well be the capital of rock and roll music in the United States of America.”

Wells May Country States America United United States Rocks United States Of America Rock And Roll Nashville Rock And Roll Music

Author:Paul Stanley

“It may sound terrible, but I often say that the military saved me from a conventional life in the United States and I've never really thanked them for it, because I haven't exactly been pro-military in my work.”

May States Sound United United States Military Havens Terrible Saved Conventional Conventional Life

Author:Robert Jay Lifton

“Really, an historic night last night. You may have heard, Barack Obama will be the first black president of the United States of America. ... Obama is also the first Democrat to receive more than 50 percent of the vote since Jimmy Carter, the first senator to be elected since Jack Kennedy, the first Muslim to be ... I said too much.”

“May our children and our children's children to a thousand generations, continue to enjoy the benefits conferred upon us by a united country, and have cause yet to rejoice under those glorious institutions bequeathed us by Washington and his compeers.”

May Children Country Causes Enjoy United Generations Thousand Benefits Our Children Institutions Glorious Rejoice

Book:The collected works of Abraham Lincoln

Source: The collected works of Abraham Lincoln

“That alliance may be said to have a double tie, where the minds are united as well as the body; and the union will have all its strength when both the links are in perfection together.”

Mind Wells May Said Body Together United Perfection Unions Ties Links Alliances Matrimony

Book:Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan

Source: Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan

“It becomes possible to admit that plainness may coexist with nobility of nature, and fine features with baseness; and yet to hold that mental and physical perfection are fundamentally connected, and will, when the present causes of incongruity have worked themselves out, be ever found united.”

May Found Causes United Beauty Fine Perfection Connected Features Nobility Coexist Baseness Incongruity Plainness

Author:Herbert Spencer

“In the Western Hemisphere the adherence of the United States to the Monroe Doctrine may force the United States, however reluctantly, in flagrant cases of such wrong doing or impotence, to the exercise of an international police power.”

May States Force United Cases Power United States Exercise Police Western International Doctrine Impotence Hemisphere Adherence Police Power Monroe Doctrine

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“President Roosevelt and President Truman and President Eisenhower had the same experience, they all made the effort to get along with the Russians. But every time, finally it failed. And the reason it failed was because the Communists are determined to destroy us, and regardless of what hand of friendship we may hold out or what arguments we may put up, the only thing that will make that decisive difference is the strength of the United States.”

May Made States Reason Hands President Differences United Effort United States Argument Determined Communist Truman President Roosevelt President Eisenhower President Truman

Author:John F. Kennedy

“You can violate the law. The banks may violate the law and be sustained in doing so. But the President of the United States cannot violate the law.”

May States Law President United United States

Author:Ulysses S. Grant

“Now rejoice, all ye powers of my soul, that you are so united with God that no one may separate you from Him. I cannot fully praise nor love Him therefore must I die, and cast myself into the divine void, till I rise from non-existence to existence.”

May Soul Dies United Existence Divine Praise Casts My Soul Void Rejoice Non Existence

Book:Meister Eckhart's Sermons

Source: Meister Eckhart's Sermons

“it [is] possible to suppose that, if Russia is allowed to have peace, an amazing industrial development may take place, making Russia a rival of the United States.”

Ifs May States United United States Development Russia Rivals

Book:Uncertain Paths to Freedom: Russia and China, 1919-22

Source: Uncertain Paths to Freedom: Russia and China, 1919-22