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To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.
Calvin Coolidge1872–1933Message to the National Security League in honor of Constitution Day, quoted in New York Times (17 September 1923) “Ceremonies Mark Constitution Day”.
America is the greatest force for good in the history of the world.
John McCain1936–2018Second Presidential Debate (8 October 2008)
Hitler didn’t snub me; it was our president who snubbed me. The president didn’t even send me a telegram.
Jesse Owens1913–1980About Franklin D. Roosevelt, as quoted in Triumph: The Untold Story of Jesse Owens and Hitler’s Olympics (2007), by Jeremy Schaap, New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, p. 211
- Presidency
- Race
And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.
Thomas Jefferson1743–1826The Declaration of Independence (1776), Declaration of Independence (1776)In context
- Honor
While the Declaration was directed against an excess of authority, the Constitution was directed against anarchy.
Robert H. Jackson1892–1954The Struggle for Judicial Supremacy: A Study in Crisis in American Power Politics (1941), P. 8
- Government
Here was buried Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of American Independence, of the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom, and Father of the University of Virginia.
Thomas Jefferson1743–1826Posthumous publications
- Life & Death
Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt.
Pierre Trudeau1919–2000Speech to the National Press Club, Washington, D.C. (25 March 1969)
The American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintain, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European power.
James Monroe1758–1831Seventh Annual Message to Congress (2 December 1823)
There are no second acts in American lives.
F. Scott Fitzgerald1896–1940The Last Tycoon, “Hollywood, ETC.,” ed. Edmund Wilson (1941)
The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900A Woman of No Importance (1893)
- Youth
The United States appear to be destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of liberty.
Simón Bolívar1783–1830Statement of 1829, as quoted in The Great Fear: The Reconquest of Latin America by Latin Americans (1963) by John Gerassi
- Liberty
Winning the Nobel Prize does not automatically qualify you to be commander in chief. I think George Bush has proved definitively that to be president, you don’t need to care about science, literature or peace.
Stephen Colbertborn 1964“A Mock Columnist, Amok”, in The New York Times (14 October 2007)
- Clever Jabs
- Presidency
We think of Marilyn who was every man’s love affair with America. Marilyn Monroe who was blonde and beautiful and had a sweet little rinky-dink of a voice and all the cleanliness of all the clean American backyards.
Norman Mailer1923–2007Marilyn (1973), Ch. 1
- Beauty
In my country we go to prison first and then become President.
Nelson Mandela1918–2013Long Walk to Freedom (1995)
- Presidency
One flag, one land, one heart, one hand,
One Nation evermore!
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.1809–1894“Voyage of the Good Ship Union”, in The Atlantic Monthly (March 1862) pp. 398-400
- Patriotism