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Edith Wharton
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How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be 'American' before (or in contradistinction to) being cultivated, being enlightened, being humane, and having the same intellectual discipline as other civilized countries?
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Albert Einstein
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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.
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Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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I hope in the future Americans are thought of as a warlike, vicious people, because I bet a lot of high schools would pick 'Americans' as their mascot.
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George S. Patton
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Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle.
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Gerald R. Ford
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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)
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Arnold Bennett
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Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
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Benjamin Harrison
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We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.
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Charles De Gaulle
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You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.
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Woodrow Wilson
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Some Americans need hyphens in their names because only part of them has come over.
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Lyndon B. Johnson
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The Negro says, 'Now.' Others say, 'Never.' The voice of responsible Americans ... says, 'Together.' There is no other way.
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Casey Stengel
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Two hundred million Americans, and there ain't two good catchers among 'em.
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Ronald Reagan
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While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.
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George Will
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Americans are overreachers overreaching is the most admirable of the many American excesses.
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Bruce B. Dan
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We can now prove that large numbers of Americans are dying from sitting on their behinds.
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Yoshimi Ishikawa
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Americans have the will to resist because you have weapons. If you don't have a gun, freedom of speech has no power.
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Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde
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When good Americans die they go to Paris.
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Irwin Edman
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The standardized American is largely a myth created not least by Americans themselves.
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Luther H. Hodges
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If ignorance paid dividends, most Americans could make a fortune out of what they don't know about economics.
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Rita Mae Brown
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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.
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Herbert Clark Hoover
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There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing.
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Ralph Nader
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People are stunned to hear that one company has data files on 185 million Americans.
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Frank Luntz
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Quite frankly Ted, the very mention of the word 'Republican' seems to have negative connotations for the Americans in our studio.
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Daniel J. Boorstin
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Americans expect to eat and stay thin, to be constantly on the move and ever more neighborly...to revere God and be God.
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Reubin Askew
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We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans.
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Gerald R. Ford
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My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over. (On succeeding Richard M Nixon as president)
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Robert Whitney Boynton
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One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
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Vernon A. Walters
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Americans have always had an ambivalent attitude toward intelligence. When they feel threatened, they want a lot of it, and when they don't, they regard the whole thing as somewhat immoral.
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Louis Booker Wright
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We're trying to show that we're not a little bit of England in America, but a place for Americans to gain a better perspective on their own history.
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Alexis Sayle
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Americans and British have different ways of saying things. They say 'elevator,' we say 'lift' ... they say 'President,' we say 'stupid psychopathic git.'
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Harry S Truman
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When even one American -- who has done nothing wrong -- is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth -- then all Americans are in peril.
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Richard Milhous Nixon
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Tonight-to you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans-I ask for your support. (On his Vietnam War policy)
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Gunnar Myrdal
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The big majority of Americans, who are comparatively well off, have developed an ability to have enclaves of people living in the greatest misery without almost noticing them.
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Lyndon B. Johnson
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We Americans know-although others appear to forget-the risk of spreading conflict. We still seek no wider war. (On ordering retaliatory action against North Vietnam)
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William Jefferson Clinton
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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.
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Lin Yutang
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The three great American vices seem to be efficiency, punctuality, and the desire for achievement and success. They are the things that make the Americans so unhappy and so nervous.
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P. J. O'Rourke
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Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government do it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy.
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George Frost Kennan
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The best thing we can do if we want the Russians to let us be Americans is to let the Russians be Russian.
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Theodore Roosevelt
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I wish that all Americans would realize that American politics is world politics.
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Ronald Reagan
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These young Americans sent a message to terrorists everywhere ... You can run but you can't hide. (On US pilots who captured four terrorists)
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John Dickinson
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Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all!By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.
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D. W. Brogan
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For Americans war is almost all of the time a nuisance, and military skill is a luxury like Mah-Jongg. But when the issue is brought home to them, war becomes as important, for the necessary period, as business or sport. And it is hard to decide which is
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John Dickinson
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Then join hand in hand, brave Americans allBy uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.
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Michael Parenti
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The enormous gap between what US leaders do in the world and what Americans think their leaders are doing is one of the great propaganda accomplishments of the dominate political mythology.
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John F. Kennedy
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And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.
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Ronald Reagan
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My fellow Americans I'm pleased to tell you today that I've signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes. (Comment while testing a microphone before a broadcast 11 Aug 84)
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Lily Tomlin
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Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.
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Dan Rather
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The American Dream [is] one of the greatest ideas in the history of human achievement . . . It thrives today in an age when its core components of freedom and opportunity are open to more Americans than ever before. It holds a real, identifiable place in
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Walter Williams
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History is not going to be kind to liberals. With their mindless programs, they've managed to do to Black Americans what slavery, Reconstruction, and rank racism found impossible destroy their family and work ethic.
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Gerald R. Ford
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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.
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George W. Bush
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Americans are a free people, who know that freedom is the right of every person and the future of every nation. The liberty we prize is not America's gift to the world it is God's gift to humanity.
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It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self- conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations are in a conspiracy to under-value them.
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Wherever I have gone in this country, I have found Americans.
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Life is very important to Americans.
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3 out of 4 Americans make up 75% of the population.
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Very little is known about the War of 1812 because the Americans lost it.
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In New York City, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans.
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As Americans, we go forward, in the service of our country, by the will of God.
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Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.
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The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.
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The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf.
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The actual God of many Americans... is simply the current of American life.
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Americans are overreachers; overreaching is the most admirable of the many American excesses.
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Americans are a race of convicts and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging.
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Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.
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Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
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The Americans combine the notions of Christianity and of liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive the one without the other.
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My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes.
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I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
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Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit of keeping six conversations when there are twelve in the room.
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Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles.
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We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in the world, unless you count maybe 25 or 30 little scuzzball countries like Scotland that we could vaporize in seconds if we felt like it.
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Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to smart Americans who blow horns to break up traffic jams.
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There are now two great nations in the world, which starting from different points, seem to be advancing toward the same goal: the Russians and the Anglo-Americans...Each seems called by some secret design of Providence one day to hold in its hands the de
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Americans become unhappy and vicious because their preoccupation with amassing possessions obliterates their loneliness. This is why production in America seems to be on such an endless upward spiral: every time we buy something we deepen our emotional de
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Sunday: A day given over by Americans to wishing they were dead and in heaven, and that their neighbors were dead and in hell.
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At every step of the way, George W. Bush has put the narrow interests of the few ahead of the interests of most Americans.
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"Americans suffer from emotional chaos without reason." - Chuin
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"Americans have the right and advantage of being armed" James Madison
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"Let Waco be a warning to all Americans." -- Bill Clinton
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"Good Americans, when they die, go to Paris." -- Appleton
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"I don't see much future for the Americans." - Adolf Hitler.
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"Only Americans can hurt America." - Eisenhower
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"Shut up, you American! You always talk, you Americans.."
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"Americans like me like difficult jobs." -- Col. Flagg
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The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens. As Americans, we are blessed with circumstances that protect our human rights and our religious freedom, but for many people around the world, deprivation and pe
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I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities- a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.
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Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans, born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage, and unw
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It was not their irritating assumption of equality that annoyed Nicholai so much as their cultural confusions. The Americans seemed to confuse standard of living with quality of life, equal opportunity with institutionalized mediocrity, bravery with coura
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"Wherever I've gone in the U.S., I've found Americans." Alf Landon
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Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.
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The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves, which leave us to wonder at the possibility that there may be something to them that we are missing.
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America has begun a spiritual reawakening. Faith and hope are being restored. Americans are turning back to God. Church attendance is up. Audiences for religious books and broadcasts are growing. And I do believe that he has begun to heal our blessed land
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We Americans want peace, and it is now evident that we must be prepared to demand it. For other peoples have wanted peace, and the peace they received was the peace of death.
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And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you -- ask what you can do for your country.
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And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country.
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And so, my fellow americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.
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"I feel your pain." -- Bill Clinton "No you don't!" -- Americans
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The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make us wonder at the possibility that there may be something to them we are missing.
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