“One of our goals for this race is to help raise the level of the sport in America. With Americans as the top-five riders into today's time trial and the top-five in the overall classification, the strength of U.S. riders in international cycling is evident here in California.”
Shawn Hunter
“You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else.”
Winston Churchill
“Americans play to win at all times. I wouldn't give a hoot and hell for a man who lost and laughed. That's why Americans have never lost nor ever lose a war.”
General George S. Patton
“I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.”
James Arthur Baldwin
“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.”
Thomas Jefferson
“If violence is wrong in America, violence is wrong abroad. If it is wrong to be violent defending black women and black children and black babies and black men, then it is wrong for America to draft us, and make us violent abroad in defense of her. And if it is right for America to draft us, and teach us how to be violent in defense of her, then it is right for you and me to do whatever is necessary to defend our own people right here in this country.”
Malcolm X
“The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other”
Alexis de Tocqueville
