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The dangerous American fascist is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way.
— Henry A. Wallace
I am for violence if non-violence means we continue postponing a solution to the American black man's problem just to avoid violence.
— Malcolm X
They [the founders] proclaimed to all the world the revolutionary doctrine of the divine rights of the common man. That doctrine has ever since been the heart of the American faith.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
you want to know the key to end-times hatred of Israel and the Jewish people, you need to understand the core problem rests within the heart of American Evangelicalism.
— Terry James
We can have no "50-50" allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all.
— Theodore Roosevelt
the more I see the better satisfied I am that I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.
— Theodore Roosevelt
I didn't go to religion to make me happy. I always knew that a bottle of port would do that. If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don't recommend Christianity. I am certain there must be a patent American article on the market which will suit you far better, but I can't give any advice on it.
— CS Lewis
A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.
— Grover Cleveland
It is not for the State Department or even the Secretary of State to say when and how the resources of the American people will be spent.
— Mike Pence
You can idealize or intellectualize. Or, on the contrary, you can let the dark soul in you see for itself. An artist usually intellectualizes on top, and his dark under-consciousness goes on contradicting him beneath. This is almost laughably the case with most American artists.
— DH Lawrence
The instincts of the American people are all perfect, and tend to make heroes.
— Walt Whitman
I pledged that as long as I am in a position to uphold the Constitution, no barrier would ever come between a secret ballot and the citizen's right to cast one... For this Nation to remain true to its principles, we cannot allow any American's vote to be denied, diluted, or defiled. The right to vote is the crown jewel of American liberties, and we will not see its luster diminished.
— Ronald Reagan