(8523 quotes found)
“Almighty God, we make our earnest prayer that Thou wilt keep the United States in Thy holy protection; that Thou wilt incline the hearts of the citizens to cultivate a spirit of subordination and obedience to government”
George Washington
“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
“The forgiving state of mind is a magnetic power for attracting good.”
Catherine Ponder
“The political and commercial morals of the United States are not merely food for laughter, they are an entire banquet”
Mark Twain
“If x is the population of the United States and y is the degree of imbecility of the average American, then democracy is the theory that x X y is less than y”
Henry Louis Mencken
“When you are describing A shape, or sound, or tint; Don't state the matter plainly, But put it in a hint; And learn to look at all things With a sort of mental squint”
Lewis Carroll
“The terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States - and war is what they got.”
George W. Bush
“My thinking tends to be libertarian. That is, I oppose intrusions of the state into the private realm -- as in abortion, sodomy, prostitution, pornography, drug use, or suicide, all of which I would strongly defend as matters of free choice in a representative democracy.”
Camille Paglia
“In the United States the majority undertakes to supply a multitude of ready-made opinions for the use of individuals, who are thus relieved from the necessity of forming opinions of their own”
Alexis de Tocqueville
“The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.”
Carl Rogers
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