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“America's abundance was not created by public sacrifices to "the common good", but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes”
Ayn Rand
“Americans who travel abroad for the first time are often shocked to discover that, despite all the progress that has been made in the last 30 years, many foreign people still speak in foreign languages”
Dave Barry
“The labor movement means just this: It is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth.”
Wendell Phillips
“We don't believe in planners and deciders making the decisions on behalf of Americans.”
George W. Bush
“Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.”
Robert Orben
“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
“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
“All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.”
Dr. Carl Sagan
“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
“Once you 'got' Pop, you could never see a sign again the same way again. And once you thought Pop, you could never see America the same way again.”
Andy Warhol
