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Saudi Arabia has allowed training on its soil of American forces.
— Joe Biden
The trouble with life in America today is not that we work too much but that our free time is too much engaged in play and amusement so that too little of it is left for the kind of leisure activities that really are the most profitable part of human life.
— Mortimer Adler
but is in danger from the American evil of commercializing even the sacred festivals.
— Catherine Marshall
It is the duty of every American citizen to take part in a vigorous debate on the issues of the day.
— Thomas Jefferson
Even in Europe a change has sensibly taken place in the mind of man. Science has liberated the ideas of those who read and reflect, and the American example has kindled feelings of right in the people.
— Thomas Jefferson
To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.
— Calvin Coolidge
To the American People: Christmas is not a time or a season but a state of mind. To cherish peace and good will, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas. If we think on these things, there will be born in us a Savior and over us will shine a star sending its gleam of hope to the world. Presidential message, December 25, 1927
— Calvin Coolidge
The 100% American is 99% an idiot.
— George Bernard Shaw
Two-thirds of those evacuated at that time had been born in the United States and were American citizens. Standing in long lines, the Japanese had to wait for hours in front of the desks of the officials, who took down their names and handed out labels for them to wear around their necks with their identity number, the same as for their luggage.
— Isabel Allende
I'm mindful in a free society that people can worship if they want to or not. You're equally an American if you choose to worship an almighty and if you choose not to.
— George W. Bush
To announce that there must be no criticism of the president... is morally treasonable to the American public.
— Theodore Roosevelt
No one is more sentimentalized in America than mothers on Mother's Day, but no one is more often blamed for the culture's bad people and behavior.
— Anne Lamott