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"Well, it looks like the all-star balloting is about over, especially in the National and American Leagues."	Jerry Coleman
"In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who 'come out' together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude."	Charles Caleb Colton
"I think the American public wants a solemn ass as a President, and I think I'll go along with them."	(John) Calvin Coolidge
"Loneliness seems to have become the great American disease."	John Corry
"We must get the American public to look past the glitter, beyond the showmanship, to the reality, the hard substance of things. And we'll do it ... not so much with speeches that will bring people to their feet as with speeches that bring people to their senses."	Mario M(atthew) Cuomo
"We can now prove that large numbers of Americans are dying from sitting on their behinds."	Bruce B. Dan
"One of the things that is wrong with America is that everybody who has done anything at all in his own field is expected to be an authority on every subject under the sun."	Elmer Holmes Davis
"You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination."	General Charles De Gaulle
"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 I were to select a jack-booted group of fascists who are perhaps as large a danger to American society as I could pick today, I would pick BATF."	John Dingell
"If anyone attempts to hall down the American flag shoot him on the spot."	John A. Dix
"At least she's the president of something, which is more than I can say." (on his wife Elizabeth, president of the American Red Cross)"	Robert Joseph "Bob" Dole
"For any woman to success in American life she must first do two things: Prepare herself for a profession, and marry a man who wants her to succeed as much as she does."	Cathleen Douglas
"The Second Amendment reveals a profound principle of American government - the principle of civilian ascendency over the military."	William Orville Douglas
"Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us."	William Orville Douglas
"What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: A day that reveals to him, more than all other days of the year, the gross injustices and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him your celebration is a sham."	Frederick Douglass
"Our country was founded on a distrust of government. Our founding fathers gave power to the people to keep an eye on government. So when politicians say, Trust me, they're actually being very un-American."	David Duchovny
"I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged."	Bob Dylan
"I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball."	Gerald Early
"The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children."	Edward VIII
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