"America has faced much more difficult times, including potential national extinction, without flinching."

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"America has faced much more difficult times, including potential national extinction, without flinching."

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"This is due partly to the fact that Americans are much better fed than Europeans, and partly to the undeveloped resources of a new country, but more largely to our climate, which acts as a constant stimulus."

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"I believe we are now in a struggle over whether or not we are going to save America."

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"I am an American citizen and feel I am entitled to the same rights as any other citizen."

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"America is not only big and rich, it is mysterious; and its capacity for the humorous or ironical concealment of its interests matches that of the legendary inscrutable Chinese."

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"Then on to all the terrific american songwriters, from Tin Pan Alley to the Beatles, from Bob Dylan to Paul Simon. Whoever wrote and sang in the song form I have appreciated."

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"Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us?"

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"The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf."

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"Dick Clark is an American icon. I am honored that he has entrusted me with such a role in this national tradition."

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"I'm an American before any party preference."

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"American future lies in the East. The great free markets of the Pacific Rim are the American destiny."

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"It is impossible to exaggerate the wide, and widening, gulf between the American attitude on the Iraq war and the view from our friends across the Atlantic."

Attitude

"We decided that how we react to and treat those fellow mortals, wild and domestic, tells us more about ourselves than, perhaps, some of us want to know."

Want

"What the F.D.I.C. does is to put the full faith and credit of the United States government behind every savings account in the nation, up to a limit that has changed over the years and stands now at $100,000."

Faith

"No matter how many troops we have in place or how long they stay, we cannot impose a parliamentary democracy there any more than the insurgents can impose a theocracy."

Democracy

"The worst thing that can happen to us in an ideological struggle is to become what we are fighting."

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"Those who actually hate animals to the point of being cruel to them are outcasts to the rest of us, no matter where in the world they live."

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"Social Security is at last on the nation's front burner."

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"For some reason, on that sparkling afternoon last week, I actually saw the coal that was passing by and it set me to thinking how important coal was to our everyday lives when I was a little boy."

Reason

"The quality that defines us as Americans is the courage to respond to being hit. The courage to root out and destroy the killers. And, most importantly, the courage to hold on to our values and protect our hard-won freedoms while doing it."

Quality

"Respect and affection for animals, particularly those who share our homes, recognize no geographic borders."

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