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America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.


Alexis Tocqueville

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America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE For Nation States, and the adversaries within America's boarders (special interest groups, cyber cal...
AMERICA Never let yourself be persuaded that any one Great Man, any one leader, is necessary to the salvatio...
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER You're the best gay friend I've ever had!
AMERICA TALKING TO FRANCE We will make America strong again. We will make America proud again. We will make America safe again...
DONALD TRUMP Donald Trump is a good man, and he will make a great president of the United States of America.
MIKE PENCE How to be Great;The moment you realize & accept the ordinary fact that those doing great things toda...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) How to be great;Think of a gigantic & unheard of idea to birth & nurture & inside it lies your great...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) America never was America to meAnd yet I swear this oath-America will be!
LANGSTON HUGHES Our life is a series of moments. Let them all go. Moments. All gathering towards this one.
NOW IS GOOD I consider anybody a twerp who hasn't read 'Democracy in America' by Alexis de Tocquevil...
KURT VONNEGUT What is so great about America?
DAN FLYNN America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: Amer...
E. E. (EDWARD ESTLIN) CUMMINGS America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: Amer...
E. E. CUMMINGS Together, We will make America strong again. We will make wealthy again. We will make America proud ...
DONALD TRUMP I know now: what is is all that matters. Not the thing you know is meant to be, not what could be, n...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: Amer...
E. E. CUMMINGS America is too great for small dreams.
RONALD REAGAN Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be.
JEFFREY FRY Discrimination does not 'make America great.' It makes America weak.
DASHANNE STOKES It is harder for us to win in America. But we have a good team, a good spirit and I think we have a ...
ANNIKA SORENSTAM We're glad to finally have a good album out, and everything that comes after that is extra. If Ameri...
ALEJANDRO ROSSO But this is the great danger America faces. That we will cease to be one nation and become instead a...
BARBARA JORDAN The great and admirable strength of America consists in this, that America is truly the American peo...
JACQUES MARITAIN I want America to be more like America, if you will. I want the songs, that patriotism we have.
MITT ROMNEY America is the great Satan, the wounded snake.
AYATOLLAH KHOMEINI It's great to wave the flag - I always say we're proud to be made in America - but I think o...
JOSEPH ABBOUD Europe will never be like America. Europe is a product of history. America is a product of philosoph...
MARGARET THATCHER What is true is that if we do not change the culture of Washington, D.C., the United States of Ameri...
STEVE SOUTHERLAND Americans' great and secret fear is that America may turn out to be a phenomenon rather than a civil...
SHIRLEY HAZZARD The first time I landed in New York and got a cab to my hotel, I was completely struck by it: a feel...
AMERICA FERRERA I'm not going to miss wearing the braces very much.
AMERICA FERRERA When my mother was born on 14 April, he named her after a Latin American holiday, the Day of America...
AMERICA FERRERA What's so kind of beautiful about the whole thing was that everything that made me not right for...
AMERICA FERRERA My siblings are my best friends.
AMERICA FERRERA If I learned anything from Betty coming into my life, it's to just be open to all the things tha...
AMERICA FERRERA I miss Betty madly. I loved her. Whenever people talk about her, I get really nostalgic. There are p...
AMERICA FERRERA I really hate the duties of being a celebrity, like getting dressed up for the red carpet.
AMERICA FERRERA I realized how Latina I was, and then also, at the same time, how not Latina enough I was, because I...
AMERICA FERRERA I think Hispanic women are beautiful with their curves. I'm not sure who feels that way in Holly...
AMERICA FERRERA I was an open, smiley and gregarious child. I could make friends in 30 seconds wherever I went.
AMERICA FERRERA to the victor go the spoils
THE AMERICA When you finish a series like 'Ugly Betty,' there are so many voices around you telling you ...
AMERICA FERRERA What I would say is that vows and rings don't change anything: the challenges are the same. Ever...
AMERICA FERRERA I was just so lucky with 'Real Women Have Curves.' At that point, I would have done an insur...
AMERICA FERRERA I just want to be in my sweats, walk my dog, watch TV and eat pizza.
AMERICA FERRERA I remember being a kid, and if you had to pee, well, you had to hold it until the commercial break. ...
AMERICA FERRERA If you disagree with me, fine! Because that's the great thing about America, we can disagree!
MICHAEL STIPE Well, I had a small degree, that little infection of skepticism about America which resides in the m...
ROBERT MACNEIL America is a country of entrepreneurship and great business leaders.
NICKY OPPENHEIMER While America has always been and always will be a safe harbor for those being persecuted by tyranni...
BILL SHUSTER America is a young dumb country and it needs all kinds of help. America is a dumb puppy with big tee...
ABIODUN OYEWOLE Hillary Clinton is as qualified or more qualified than I am to be Vice President of the United State...
JOE BIDEN In Britain, like most of the developed world, stem-cell research is regarded as a great opportunity....
STEPHEN HAWKING Lots of countries, like Israel, live with terrorism every day, and it doesn't impact their integ...
ROBERT KENNEDY, JR. I have never had anything done to my face because then you end up looking as they all do in America....
JOANNA LUMLEY I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be j...
BOB DYLAN America will not be America until we free ourselves of discrimination and bigotry,
EDWARD KENNEDY One of the great dilemmas for America will be that American companies will do very well while Americ...
FAREED ZAKARIA The good fortune of America is closely tied to the good fortune of all humanity.
MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE I want to go get trade agreements because if America walls itself up, if we address sort of an econo...
PAUL RYAN Protesting is good, but healing is better. We need to see America heal.
ALVEDA KING Free enterprise, individual opportunity, limited government. They made America great; only they can ...
REINCE PRIEBUS If ever America undergoes great revolutions, they will be brought about by the presence of the black...
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE “Our Beautiful America !!! With Liberty and Justice We Stand, Proud to be Heirs of this Great Land...
TOM BAKER AKA THE PONDERING MAN This repeal is good for seniors. It's good for America. And it's good government,
WILLIAM ROTH If American forces leave Afghanistan, the Taliban is going to do what to America? Don't say you&...
HENRY ROLLINS 'Good Morning America' is television to a fare-thee-well.
FRANK DEFORD America is looking for answers. She's looking for a new direction; the world is looking for a li...
SARAH PALIN One can not be an American by going about saying that one is an American. It is necessary to feel Am...
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE 'Captain America' I love, and that would be great, but c'mon, a Frenchman doing 'Cap...
LOUIS LETERRIER Brandy is the great cause of destruction for the aborigines of America.
SAM HOUSTON There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.
BILL CLINTON There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.
HENRY CLAY There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America
BILL CLINTON America is a great power possessed of tremendous military might and a wide-ranging economy, but all ...
OSAMA BIN LADEN America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be bec...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN She is a good PR for America. All of America's power and arrogance were neatly covered because of he...
AGUNG LAKSONO Globalization has been very good to Corporate America.
JOSEPH QUINLAN I think that sort of changed things for me, especially in America, because the cast was really great...
ANNA FRIEL America, America, God shed His grace on thee, and crown thy good with brotherhood, from sea to shini...
KATHERINE LEE BATES America! America! God shed his grace on thee, and crown thy good with brotherhood from sea to shinin...
KATHARINE LEE BATES There is not a liberal America and a conservative America - there is the United States of America. T...
BARACK OBAMA There is not a black America and white America and Latino America and Asian America -- there is the ...
BARACK OBAMA America is a great country, but you can't live in it for nothing.
WILL ROGERS That's what makes America great. We look forward to the campaign.
JOE WERNER I came to America because of the great, great freedom which I heard existed in this country. I made ...
ALBERT EINSTEIN The bill will do more damage to people than good, especially in rural America. People will be forced...
CHUCK CUSHMAN America has the highest standard of living of any major country in the entire world. To maintain and...
ALEX TABARROK Good morning, America, how are you?
WILLIE NELSON The church which ceases to be evangelistic will soon cease to be evangelical.
ALEXANDER DUFF Americans disagree about America because the most common consensus as to what America is or has ever...
STEVE ERICKSON To me, to be a conservative means to conserve the good parts of America and to conserve our Constitu...
RON PAUL ...It is hard to overestimate how far a man can go in America if he looks good on a horse.
MARK TWAIN America is promises to take! America is promises to us to take them.
ARCHIBALD MACLEISH The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind
THOMAS PAINE If we ever pass out as a great nation we ought to put on our tombstone 'America died from a delusion...
WILL ROGERS Audiences want great story telling; it's why white people watch my show 'Black in America.&#...
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ALEXIS CARREL The mug is a tool. My ace in the hole. To have looks is the bonus on top of what motivates me to be ...
ALEXIS CARREL The quality of life is more important than life itself
ALEXIS CARREL Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive
ALEXIS CARREL To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know. - Reflectio...
ALEXIS CARREL Feast of Bartholomew the Apostle If you make a habit of sincere prayer, your life will be very not...
ALEXIS CARREL Too many people regard prayer as a formalized routine of words, a refuge for weaklings, or a childis...
ALEXIS CARREL All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other peopl...
ALEXIS CARREL Feast of Patrick, Bishop of Armagh, Missionary, Patron of Ireland, c.460 Continuing a Lenten series ...
ALEXIS CARREL The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. ...
ALEXIS CARREL Maybe libertarians especially like Reddit because it is a perfect marketplace of content. Every Redd...
ALEXIS OHANIAN Love making jewelry? Awesome! Find blogs that inspire you, follow people on social media who have gr...
ALEXIS OHANIAN Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning.
ALEXIS DUPUY All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other peopl...
ALEXIS CARREL Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.
ALEXIS CARREL Everyone makes a greater effort to hurt other people than to help himself.
ALEXIS CARREL Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
ALEXIS CARREL To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know.
ALEXIS CARREL As to virtue . . . it is an act of the will, a habit which increases the quantity, intensity and qua...
ALEXIS CARREL Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality.
ALEXIS CARREL The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. ...
ALEXIS CARREL To accomplish our destiny it is not enough to merely guard prudently against road accidents. We must...
ALEXIS CARREL A few observations and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning lead ...
ALEXIS CARREL As to virtue . . . it is an act of the will, a habit which increases the quantity, intensity and qu...
ALEXIS CARREL All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need t...
ALEXIS CARREL If we can't begin to agree on fundamentals, such as the elimination of the most abusive forms of...
ALEXIS HERMAN The more storage you have, the more stuff you accumulate.
ALEXIS STEWART A supermodel needed to be able to be on 'Sports Illustrated,' to be able to walk runways, to...
KIM ALEXIS Really, the potential for, first of all, any college graduate today is enormously good. These are go...
ALEXIS HERMAN I think most people in the developed world would admit to carrying some sort of handheld device, whe...
ALEXIS DENISOF The white dogs with black spots were the worst. It wasn't so much their aggression; other dogs were ...
ANDRé ALEXIS Our efforts are to promote a healthy lifestyle, and smoking and tobacco use are the leading cause of...
ALEXIS WILLIAMS We are hoping to get more people to contribute money, so that we can do more things like this.
ALEXIS WILLIAMS We think it would as big benefit to people who lost their whole home or part of their home. For peop...
ALEXIS WILLIAMS It was fun, especially at the end when we got all down and dirty. Now I'm ready to go take a bath.
ALEXIS WILLIAMS I've been just waiting, waiting, waiting. We couldn't wait until state after last year, because we k...
ALEXIS WILLIAMS It's really hard. Not having someone that you do absolutely everything with everyday - there's not r...
ALEXIS WAGGONER We have buttons now that have his picture and the phone number that you call in case you know anythi...
ALEXIS WAGGONER It's very out of character for him. We're all very, very worried and we want to see him come home .....
ALEXIS WAGGONER I just want him to come home safe. I'm hoping that maybe he just was overwhelmed by things and maybe...
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