(3173 quotes found)
“The political and commercial morals of the United States are not merely food for laughter, they are an entire banquet”
Mark Twain
“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 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
“Great Britain and the United States are nations separated by a common language.”
George Bernard Shaw
“Redefining the role of the United States from enablers to keep the peace to enablers to keep the peace from peacekeepers is going to be an assignment.”
George W. Bush
“The terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States - and war is what they got.”
“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
“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
“The two greatest obstacles to democracy in the United States are, first, the widespread delusion among the poor that we have a democracy, and second, the chronic terror among the rich, lest we get it.”
Edward Dowling
“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
