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“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
“Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.”
George Balanchine
“New York has more hermits than will be found in all the forests, mountains and deserts of the United States”
Simeon Strunsky
“Perhaps the most revolting character that the United States ever produced was the Christian business man”
Henry Louis Mencken
“The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity - much less dissent.”
Gore Vidal
“About all I can say for the United States Senate is that it opens with a prayer and closes with an investigation.”
Will Rogers
“There is an option still left to the United States of America, that it is in their choice and depends upon their conduct, whether they will be respectable and prosperous or contemptible and miserable as a Nation”
George Washington
“The family is the most basic unit of government. As the first community to which a person is attached and the first authority under which a person learns to live, the family establishes society's most basic values.”
Charles Caleb Colton
“The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced”
Frank Zappa
“Strongly guarded as is the separation between religion and government in the Constitution of the United States the danger of encroachment by Ecclesiastical Bodies, may be illustrated by precedents already furnished in their short history”
James Madison
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