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To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.
Theodore Roosevelt1858–1919Kansas City Star (7 May 1918)
- Politics
Americans can always be counted on to do the right thing…after they have exhausted all other possibilities.
Winston Churchill1874–1965
No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.
H. L. Mencken1880–1956‘Notes On Journalism’ in the Chicago Tribune (19 September 1926)
It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ.For this very reason peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here.
?UnattributedOften credited to Patrick Henry
- Christianity
The United States stands at the pinnacle of world power. This is a solemn moment for the American democracy. For with primacy in power is joined an awe-inspiring accountability for the future.
Winston Churchill1874–1965
- Responsibility
If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
James Madison1751–1836
- War & Peace
The Declaration of Independence dogmatically bases all rights on the fact that God created all men equal; and it is right; for if they were not created equal, they were certainly evolved unequal. There is no basis for democracy except in a dogma about the divine origin of man.
G. K. Chesterton1874–1936What I Saw In America
- Freedom
- God
This country was built on rape, slavery, murder, degradation and affiliation with crime.
Mike Tysonborn 1966
- Slavery
The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
Benjamin Franklin1706–1790
The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles.
Henry Kissinger1923–2023
The business of America is business.
Calvin Coolidge1872–1933Speech to the Society of American Newspaper Editors (1925).
- Business
It is by the goodness of God that, in this country, we have three benefits: freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and the wisdom never to use either.
Mark Twain1835–1910
The United States is in no sense founded upon the Christian doctrine.
George Washington1732–1799
The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first, the love of soft living and the get rich quick theory of life.
Theodore Roosevelt1858–1919Letter to S. Stanwood Menken, chairman, committee on Congress of Constructive Patriotism (January 10, 1917). Roosevelt’s sister, Mrs. Douglas Robinson, read the letter to a national meeting, January 26, 1917
If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a Nation gone under.
Ronald Reagan1911–2004