"In America, with all of its evils and faults, you can still reach through the forest and see the sun. But we don't know yet whether that sun is rising or setting for our country."

America, Country, Faults, Sun

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"In America, with all of its evils and faults, you can still reach through the forest and see the sun. But we don't know yet whether that sun is rising or setting for our country."

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"America wasn't founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damned well pleased."

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George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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"An asylum for the sane would be empty in America."

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"America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there."

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"America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few."

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"Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"Taking the entire globe, if North America and Western Europe can be called the 'cities of the world', then Asia, Africa and Latin America constitute 'the rural areas of the world'."

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"I apologize to coalition forces and all the families, detainees, the families, America and all the soldiers."

Lynndie England, American Criminal

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"Only when I came to America did I think of myself as British."

Naveen Andrews, British Actor

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"All the forms of civil polity have been tried by mankind, except one, and that seems to have been reserved in Providence to be realized in America."

Ezra Stiles, American Clergyman

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"I wouldn't mind paying taxes - if I knew they were going to a friendly country."

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"You know why Madison Avenue advertising has never done well in Harlem? We're the only ones who know what it means to be Brand X."

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"We thought I was going to be a great athlete, and we were wrong, and I thought I was going to be a great entertainer, and that wasn't it either. I'm going to be an American Citizen. First class."

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"We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn't think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre."

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"Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten."

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"And we love to dance, especially that new one called the Civil War Twist. The Northern part of you stands still while the Southern part tries to secede."

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"If they took all the drugs, nicotine, alcohol and caffeine off the market for six days, they'd have to bring out the tanks to control you."

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"I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark."

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