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"Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic."	(Enoch) Arnold Bennett
"I think the American public wants a solemn ass as a President, and I think I'll go along with them."	(John) Calvin Coolidge
"The big majority of Americans, who are comparatively well off, have developed an ability to have enclaves of people living in the greatest misery without almost noticing them."	(Karl) Gunnar Myrdal
"The big majority of Americans, who are comparatively well off, have developed an ability to have enclaves of people living in the greatest misery without almost noticing them."	(Karl) Gunnar Myrdal
"An American is a man with two arms and four wheels."	A Chinese Child
"We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven. We have been preserved, these many years, in peace and prosperity. We have grown in numbers, wealth and power, as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us!"	Abraham Lincoln
"Has it [popular sovereignty] not got down as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by boiling the shadow of a pigeon that had starved to death?"	Abraham Lincoln
"I think very much of the people, as an old friend said he thought of woman. He said when he lost his first wife, who had been a great help to him in his business, he thought he was ruined-that he could never find another to fill her place. At length, however, he married another, who he found did quite as well as the first, and that his opinion now was that any woman would do well who was well done by. So I think of the whole people of this nation-they will ever do well if well done by. We will try to do well by them in all parts of the country, North and South, with entire confidence that all will be well with all of us."	Abraham Lincoln
"I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him."	Abraham Lincoln
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."	Abraham Lincoln
"This American system of ours . . . call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you like, gives to each and every one of us a great opportunity if we only seize it with both hands and make the most of it."	Al Capone
"My rackets are run on strictly American lines and they're going to stay that way."	Al Capone
"I feel that you are justified in looking into the future with true assurance, because you have a mode of living in which we find the joy of life and the joy of work harmoniously combined. Added to this is the spirit of ambition which pervades your very being, and seems to make the day's work like a happy child at play. (referring to America)"	Albert Einstein
"The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being."	Albert Einstein
"Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves."	Albert Einstein
"I'm the only American alive or dead who presided unhappily over the removal of a vice president and a president."	Alexander Meigs Haig, Jr.
"Wherever I have gone in this country, I have found Americans."	Alf Landon
"Because systems of mass communication can communicate only officially acceptable levels of reality, no one can know the extent of the secret unconscious life. No one in America can know what will happen. No one is in real control."	Allen Ginsberg
"Russians can give you arms but only the United States can give you a solution."	Anwar el-Sadat
"Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered. For the American citadel is a man. Not man in general. Not man in the abstract. Not the majority of men. But man. That man. His worth. His uniqueness."	Archibald MacLeish
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Luther H. Hodges	Lyndon Baines Johnson	L. Frank Baum
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Oscar Wilde	Owen Gleiberman	Peggy Noonan
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Ralph Waldo Emerson	Reubin Askew	Richard Milhouse Nixon
Rita Mae Brown	Robert G. Ingersoll	Robert Francis Kennedy
Robert Hewison	Robert Joseph "Bob" Dole	Robert Maynard Hutchins
Robert Whitney Boynton	Samuel Adams	Sam(uel) James Ervin, Jr.
Shane Leslie	Shannon Lucid	Shirley Mount Hufstedler
Sir Walter Besant	Spiro Agnew	Theodore Roosevelt
Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno	Thomas Jefferson	Van Wyck Brooks
Vicki Baum	Waldo Frank	Will Rogers
William Jennings Bryan	William E(dwart) Gladstone	William Golding
William Jefferson Clinton	William John Bennett	William Orville Douglas
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