“The fact that you are here tonight gathered together with us testifies to the fact you understand the need for this organization and the need for redoubling our efforts in this organization to try to assure that democracy as represented by the United States must depend upon a total freedom of religion, which is written into our Constitution, of course, and the mere suggestion that anyone could maintain that one's patriotism, one's devotion to one's country can be judged by one's religion is so vile, so vile that we have to take to the streets indeed and to put it aside.” NeedsTryingCountryStatesGodFactsTogetherSpiritualityCoursesUnitedEffortUnited StatesDemocracyWrittenStreetsDependsOrganizationConstitutionMereDevotionTonightJudgedSuggestionsInterfaithFreedom Of Religion Author:Walter Cronkite
“The United States is the greatest threat to world peace, and has been for a long time, and not merely because it is the world's only superpower. Equally important, the United States is also far more disposed to use its power than any other powerful nation currently is. Though Americans are culturally and emotionally blind to the fact, the mere intrusion of US power is, in and of itself, destabilizing.” WorldLongHas BeensImportantStatesFactsUseNationsUnitedPowerfulUnited StatesLong TimeBlindThreatMereSuperpowerIntrusion Author:T. D. Allman
“It has been estimated that even in the absence of net investment, the mere substitution of modern machinery for worn-out equipment in the United States would cause an annual productivity increase of approximately 1.5 percent.” Has BeensStatesCausesUnitedUnited StatesModernPercentIncreaseMereInvestmentAbsenceProductivityWornEquipmentMachineryAnnualsWorn OutSubstitution Book:Political Econ of Growth Source: Political Econ of Growth
“The Constitution of the United States is not a mere lawyers' document. It is a vehicle of life, and its spirit is always the spirit of the age. Its prescriptions are clear and we know what they arebut life is always your last and most authoritative critic.” KnowsStatesAgeLastsLife IsSpiritUnitedUnited StatesClearConstitutionMereCriticsLawyerVehicleDocumentsPrescriptionsConstitution Of The United States Author:Woodrow Wilson
“And this exclusion of "women's work" continues, despite United Nations data gathered since 1975 (the beginning of the UN Decade for Women) indicating that women globally contribute two-thirds of the world's work hours, for which - given the imbalanced, unjust, and truly peculiar nature of the accounting characteristic of dominator economics - they globally earn only one-tenth of what men do and own a mere one-hundredth of the world's property.” MenWorldTwoGivenNationsHoursUnitedEconomicsThirdsPropertyMereDecadesDespiteDataCharacteristicsPeculiarDishesUnjustUnited NationsAccountingExclusion Author:Riane Eisler
“Yet, in 1850 nearly all the railroads in the United States lay east of the Mississippi River, and all of them, even when they were physically mere extensions of one another, were separately owned and separately managed.” StatesUnitedUnited StatesRiversLaysMereEastExtensionsMississippiRailroadsMississippi River Book:The Railroad Builders: A Chronicle of the Welding of the States Source: The Railroad Builders: A Chronicle of the Welding of the States
“Americans should never underestimate the constant pressure on Canada which the mere presence of the United States has produced. We're different people from you and we're different people because of you. Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is effected by every twitch and grunt. It should not therefore be expected that this kind of nation, this Canada, should project itself as a mirror image of the United States.” PeopleIfsWayShouldKindI CanDifferentMatterStatesNextNationsSleepUnitedUnited StatesProjectsPressureMirrorsConstantMereExpectedBeastCanadaFriendlyUnderestimateElephantsDifferent PeoplesNever UnderestimateBecause Of YouGruntMirror ImageCanada Being GreatAmerican Identity Author:Pierre Trudeau
“We have no paupers ... The great mass of our [United States] population is of laborers; our rich, who can live without labor, either manual or professional, being few, and of moderate wealth. Most of the laboring class possess property, cultivate their own lands, have families, and from the demand for their labor are enabled to exact from the rich and the competent such prices as enable them to be fed abundantly, clothed above mere decency, to labor moderately and raise their families. ... Can any condition of society be more desirable than this?” StatesWealthUnitedClassUnited StatesRichLandConditionsDemandMassLaborRaisesPropertyMerePopulationFedsDesirableModeratesDecencyCompetentManualsLaborers Author:Thomas Jefferson