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"Our American past always speaks to us with two voices: the voice of the past, and the voice of the present. We are always asking two quite different questions. Historians reading the words of John Winthrop usually ask, What did they mean to him? Citizens ask, What do they mean to us? Historians are trained to seek the original meaning; all of us want to know the present meaning."	Daniel J(oseph) Boorstin
"The American experience stirred mankind from discovery to exploration, from the cautious quest for what they knew (or what they thought they knew) was out there, to an enthusiastic reaching to the unknown."	Daniel J(oseph) Boorstin
"[Americans] expect to eat and stay thin, to be constantly on the move and ever more neighborly...to revere God and be God."	Daniel J(oseph) Boorstin
"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."	Nadia Boulanger
"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
"The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me, by newspapers and the Bible."	Van Wyck Brooks
"The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you."	Rita Mae Brown
"Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights; American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others."	William Jennings Bryan
"America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world."	George Herbert Walker Bush
"Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve." [referring to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon]"	George Walker Bush
"Indeed, the Founders mentioned the pagan authors in so many heartfelt speeches, pamphlets and letters that today's sweeping references to America's 'Christian' roots and 'Judeo-Christian heritage' ought to be amended. Maybe these terms should be reserved to explain the traditional religions and morality of individuals, families, congregations, small communitities. Politically, our notions of virtue and vice have had another genesis."	Colin Campbell
"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
"America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense ... human rights invented America."	James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr.
"An American is a man with two arms and four wheels."	A Chinese Child
"America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization."	Georges Clemenceau
"I am often troubled as I try hard here to create a new sense of common purpose ... that sometimes we forget that we are all in this because we are seeking a good that helps all Americans."	William Jefferson Clinton
"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
"A world in which others controlled the course of their own development ... would be a world in which the American system would be seriously endangered."	Benjamin Cohen
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