“It is ironic that the United States should have been founded by intellectuals, for throughout most of our political history, the intellectual has been for the most part either an outsider, a servant or a scapegoat.”
Richard Hofstadter
“The political and commercial morals of the United States are not merely food for laughter, they are an entire banquet”
Mark Twain
“The United States is like giant boiler. Once the fire is lighted under it, there is no limit to the power it can generate.”
Winston Churchill
“The United States government must not undertake to run the Churches. When an individual, in the Church or out of it, becomes dangerous to the public interest he must be checked.”
Abraham Lincoln
“Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Japan is an important ally of ours. Japan and the United States of the Western industrialized capacity, 60 percent of the GNP, two countries. That's a statement in and of itself.”
Dan Quayle
“We must build a kind of United States of Europe.”
