“America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.”
Oscar Wilde
“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
“We can have no "50-50" allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.”
George Clemenceau
“We need to guarantee equal rights and civil rights and say that, here in America, workers have the right to organize - women have the right to choose - and justice belongs to everyone regardless of race or gender or sexual orientation.”
Senator John Kerry
“Let us at all times remember that all American citizens are brothers of a common country, and should dwell together in bonds of fraternal feeling”
Abraham Lincoln
“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
