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There is not a liberal America and a conservative America — there is the United States of America. There is not a Black America and a White America and Latino America and Asian America — there’s the United States of America.
Barack Obamaborn 1961Keynote address, Democratic National Convention, Boston (27 July 2004)
- Politics
- Race
We, the people, declare today that the most evident of truths – that all of us are created equal – is the star that guides us still; just as it guided our forebears through Seneca Falls, and Selma, and Stonewall.
Barack Obamaborn 1961Barack Obama’s Second Inaugural Address (2013)
- Freedom
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
The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind.
Thomas Paine1737–1809Common Sense (1776), Part 1In context
- Freedom
The sun never shined on a cause of greater worth.
Thomas Paine1737–1809Common Sense (1776), Part 2In context
- Freedom
Every thing that is right or natural pleads for separation. The blood of the slain, the weeping voice of nature cries, ’Tis time to part.
Thomas Paine1737–1809Common Sense (1776), Part 2In context
- Freedom
There is something very absurd, in supposing a continent to be perpetually governed by an island.
Thomas Paine1737–1809Common Sense (1776), Part 2In context
- Government
But where says some is the King of America? I’ll tell you Friend, he reigns above, and doth not make havoc of mankind like the Royal Brute of Britain.
Thomas Paine1737–1809Common Sense (1776), Part 2In context
- God
In America the law is king. For as in absolute governments the King is law, so in free countries the law ought to be King; and there ought to be no other.
Thomas Paine1737–1809Common Sense (1776), Part 2In context
- Freedom
- Laws
Freedom hath been hunted round the globe. Asia, and Africa, have long expelled her⁠—Europe regards her like a stranger, and England hath given her warning to depart. O! receive the fugitive, and prepare in time an asylum for mankind.
Thomas Paine1737–1809Common Sense (1776), Part 2In context
- Freedom
America is a country that doesn’t know where it is going but is determined to set a speed record getting there.
Laurence J. Peter1919–1990
America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation.
Laurence J. Peter1919–1990
Over the years, the United States has sent many of its fine young men and women into great peril to fight for freedom beyond our borders. The only amount of land we have ever asked for in return is enough to bury those that did not return.
Colin Powell1937–2021
Far from being the Great Satan, I would say that we are the Great Protector.
Colin Powell1937–2021MTV Global Discussion (14 February 2002).
We have to do more than just elect a new President if we truly want to change this country.
Dan Quayleborn 1947
- Presidency