"America has never seen itself as a national state like all others, but rather as an experiment in human freedom and democracy."

Brent Scowcroft, American Public Servant

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"America has never seen itself as a national state like all others, but rather as an experiment in human freedom and democracy."

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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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"England and America are two countries separated by the same language."

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'."

Lin Biao, Chinese Politician

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

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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."

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