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“Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.”
“The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and th...”
“White men have screwed this country up! I would like a black, female. everything all rolled into one.I want something different. I want a real change. People, I want a president who speaks well, wh...”
“When the president during the campaign said he was against nation building, I didn't realize he meant our nation.”
“Rosa Parks sat so Martin Luther King could walk. Martin Luther King walked so Obama could run. Obama's running so we all can fly.”
“America is a reactionary society which makes us prone and vulnerable to Hegelian dialectic style manipulation. Im more concerned about the adversaries within our boarders than I am our adversaries ...”
“Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been and ever will be pursued until it be obtained, or until liberty be lost in the pursuit.”
“It seems to me that America is constantly reinventing what "America" means.”
“Im seeing so much of America today, Luya kept telling Lowell in nervously accented English. It became a personal catchphrase for him whenever things were not to his liking, hed say that Im seeing...”
“If life is music, I sometimes feel as though I was born on the off-beat of the song, and I love it. As Christian numbers reportedly decrease in America, my love for Christ feels as though it increa...”
“As we look over the list of the early leaders of the republic, Washington, John Adams, Hamilton, and others, we discern that they were all men who insisted upon being themselves and who refused to ...”
“As ever, the original inhabitants of Turtle Island are entirely overlooked. Mysteriously, the only time indigenous people are guaranteed a mainstream Amerikkan mention is on Thanksgiving. Again, to...”
“With the single exception of the American Revolution, the aftermath of all revolutions from 1789 on only worsened the human condition.”
“No one is better at not beating America than England.”
“The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation.”
“Washington politicians basically view the People as a capricious and dangerous enemy, a dumb mob whose only interesting quality happens to be their power to take away politicians' jobs... When the ...”
“Americans today confuse freedom with not being asked to sacrifice. The fact that you can't have everything you want exactly when you want it has somehow become un-American.”
“Our political system is now run by the Big People for their own interests. If they ever deign to notice the Little People, it is with disdain and contempt.”
“In America, anyone can become president. That's one of the risks you take.”
“a delegate shout out from the floor: Peonage, Anti-Lynch Bill, poll tax, these are our issues. They are the most controversial issues in American life, and some of us will have to die for them! Yes...”
