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"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 have found out in later years [that] we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it then."	Dwight David Eisenhower
"There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens can not cure."	Dwight David Eisenhower
"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
"The story of my boyhood and that of my brothers is important only because it could happen in any American family. It did, and will again."	Earl Eisenhower
"Russians can give you arms but only the United States can give you a solution."	Anwar el-Sadat
"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
"In England every man you meet is some man's son; in America, he may be some man's father."	Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Divine right went out with the American Revolution and doesn't belong to the White House aides. What meat do they eat that makes them grow so great?"	Sam(uel) James Ervin, Jr.
"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
"A coalition of groups ... is waging a massive propaganda campaign against the president of the United States. ... an all-out attack. Their aim is total victory for themselves and total defeat [for him]." (On Watergate crisis)"	Gerald R. Ford
"The political lesson of Watergate is this: Never again must America allow an arrogant, elite guard of political adolescents to by-pass the regular party organization and dictate the terms of a national election."	Gerald R. Ford
"An American tragedy in which we all have played a part." (On Watergate, announcing pardon of former President Richard M Nixon)"	Gerald R. Ford
"As I rejected amnesty, so I reject revenge. I ask all Americans who ever asked for goodness and mercy in their lives, who ever sought forgiveness for their trespasses, to join in rehabilitating all the casualties of the tragic conflict of the past." (On Americans who avoided conscription during the Vietnam War, to Veterans of Foreign Wars)"	Gerald R. Ford
"My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over." (On succeeding Richard M Nixon as president)"	Gerald R. Ford
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