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"The future does not belong to those who are content with today, apathetic toward common problems and their fellow man alike, timid and fearful in the face of bold projects and new ideas. Rather, it will belong to those who can blend passion, reason and courage in a personal commitment to the ideals of American society."	Robert Francis Kennedy
"I feel the happiest when I can light my American cigarettes with Soviet matches."	Mohammed Daud Khan
"Support by United States rulers is rather in the nature of the support that the rope gives to a hanged man."	Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev
"America is just the country that shows how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society."	Peter Kropotkin
"Wherever I have gone in this country, I have found Americans."	Alf Landon
"If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day Weekend."	Doug Larson
"America shudders at anything alien, and when it wants to shut its mind against any man's ideas, it calls him a foreigner."	Max Lerner
"The American sign of civic progress is to tear down the familiar and erect the monstrous."	Shane Leslie
"You see few people here in America who really care very much about living a Christian life in a democratic world."	Clare Boothe Luce
"You think America is the biggest place on Earth, but it's not. [The view from Mir] put everything in perspective."	Shannon Lucid
"Quite frankly Ted, the very mention of the word 'Republican' seems to have negative connotations for the Americans in our studio."	Frank Luntz
"Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered. For the American citadel is a man. Not man in general. Not man in the abstract. Not the majority of men. But man. That man. His worth. His uniqueness."	Archibald MacLeish
"The great omission in American life is solitude. . . that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incinerator of the spirit."	Marya Mannes
"If American men are obsessed with money, American women are obsessed with weight. The men talk of gain, the women talk of loss, and I do not know which talk is the more boring."	Marya Mannes
"I cannot help but wonder whether, by continuing and expanding the school lunch program, we aren't witnessing, if not encouraging, the slow demise of yet another American tradition: the brown bag. ... Perhaps we are beholding yet another break in the chain that links child to home."	Charles Mathias, Jr.
"This is obviously an act of war that has been committed on the United States." [referring to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon]"	John McCain
"Americans who had traveled in Europe knew the 'free' European peasants suffered considerably greater oppression and misery than did American bondsman. Modern scholarship has shown that the exploitation rate -- the percentage of the worker's production that was taken from him by his owners -- was lower among the slaves than among European peasants, that work loads were light, and that slaves actually experienced a considerable measure of personal freedom."	Forest McDonald
"When people ask if the United States can afford to place on trial the president, if the system can stand impeachment, my answer is, "Can we stand anything else?"	George Stanley McGovern
"The United States has the power to destroy the world, but not the power to save it alone."	Margaret Mead
"The typical American of today has lost all the love of liberty, that his forefathers had, and all their disgust of emotion, and pride in self- reliance. He is led no longer by Davy Crocketts; he is led by cheer leaders, press agents, word mongers, uplifters."	Henry Louis Mencken
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