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"The problem is that Americans would like to be independent of the rest of the world ... Except the world ain't that way. Trying to be independent of the rest of the world is to commit suicide."	Ben(jamin William) Bova
"One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife...."	Robert Whitney Boynton
"I have news for the forces of greed and the defenders of the status quo: your time has come -- and gone. It's time for change in America."	William Jefferson Clinton
"We can now prove that large numbers of Americans are dying from sitting on their behinds."	Bruce B. Dan
"The American male at the peak of his physical powers and appetites, driving 160 big white horses across the scenes of an increasingly open society, with weekend money in his pocket and with little prior exposure to trouble and tragedy, personifies "an accident going to happen."	John Sloan Dickey
"If anyone attempts to hall down the American flag shoot him on the spot."	John A. Dix
"The Second Amendment reveals a profound principle of American government - the principle of civilian ascendency over the military."	William Orville Douglas
"I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged."	Bob Dylan
"The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children."	Edward VIII
"Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion."	Dwight David Eisenhower
"Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America."	Dwight David Eisenhower
"I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem-and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?"	Dwight David Eisenhower
"We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep."	Elizabeth II
"America is so vast that almost everything said about it is likely to be true, and the opposite is probably equally true."	James T. Farell
"America is so vast that almost everything said about it is likely to be true, and the opposite is probably equally true."	James T. Farrell
"We go forth all to seek America. And in the seeking we create her. In the quality of our search shall be the nature of the America that we created."	Waldo Frank
"America is closer to the year 2 than anywhere else on earth."	David Frost
"The junior senator from Wisconsin, by his reckless charges, has so preyed upon the fears and hatreds and prejudices of the American people that he has started a prairie fire which neither he nor anyone else may be able to control."	J(ames) William Fulbright
"I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is -- I could be just as proud for half the money."	Arthur Godfrey
"Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years."	William Golding
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Lance Morrow	Lillian Hellman	Lizzy Gardiner
Luther H. Hodges	Lyndon Baines Johnson	L. Frank Baum
Margaret Mead	Mario M(atthew) Cuomo	Mark Twain
Marya Mannes	Mary Ellen Kelly	Max Lerner
Maya Angelou	Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev	Mohammed Daud Khan
Nadia Boulanger	Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev	Oliver Wendell Holmes
Oscar Wilde	Owen Gleiberman	Peggy Noonan
Peter Kropotkin	Phil Gramm	Rachel Blanchard
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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