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"The only difference between a pigeon and the American farmer today is that a pigeon can still make a deposit on a John Deere."	Jim Hightower
"If ignorance paid dividends, most Americans could make a fortune out of what they don't know about economics."	Luther H. Hodges
"[America is] still the best country for the common man -- white or black ... if he can't make it here he won't make it anywhere else."	Eric Hoffer
"No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him."	Herbert Clark Hoover
"There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing."	Herbert Clark Hoover
"I express many absurd opinions, but I am not the first man to do it; American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense."	Edgar Watson Howe
"I express many absurd opinions, but I am not the first man to do it; American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense."	Edgar Watson Howe
"The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people. To the teacher, America entrusts her most precious resource, her children; and asks that they be prepared ... to face the rigors of individual participation in a democratic society."	Shirley Mount Hufstedler
"Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of the citizens to keep and bear arms. This is not to say that firearms should not be carefully used and that definite safety rules of precaution should not be taught and enforced. But the right of the citizens to bear arms is just one guarantee against arbitrary government and one more safeguard against a tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible."	Hubert H. Humphrey
"It has been said that we have not had the three R's in America, we had the six R's: remedial readin', remedial 'ritin' and remedial 'rithmetic."	Robert Maynard Hutchins
"Americans have the will to resist because you have weapons. If you don't have a gun, freedom of speech has no power."	Yoshimi Ishikawa
"America is not like a blanket -- one piece of unbroken cloth, the same color, the same texture, the same size. America is more like a quilt -- many patches, many pieces, many colors, many sizes, all woven and held together by a common thread."	Henry M. Jackson
"The white, the Hispanic, the black, the Arab, the Jew, the woman, the Native American, the small farmer, the businessperson, the environmentalist, the peace activist, the young, the old, the lesbian, the gay and the disabled make up the American quilt."	Jesse Louis Jackson
"America is not like a blanket-one piece of unbroken cloth, the same color, the same texture, the same size. America is more like a quilt-many patches, many pieces, many colors, many sizes, all woven and held together by a common thread."	Jesse Louis Jackson
"Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between Church and State."	Thomas Jefferson
"It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate - to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance."	Thomas Jefferson
"The superiority of chocolate (hot chocolate), both for health and nourishment, will soon give it the same preference over tea and coffee in America which it has in Spain. . . "	Thomas Jefferson
"The Negro says, 'Now.' Others say, 'Never.' The voice of responsible Americans ... says, 'Together.' There is no other way."	Lyndon Baines Johnson
"I greet you as the shapers of American society."	Lyndon Baines Johnson
"I'm tired. I'm tired of feeling rejected by the American people. I'm tired of waking up in the middle of the night worrying about the war."	Lyndon Baines Johnson
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