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This is a Christian nation.
Harry S. Truman1884–1972“Exchange of Messages With Pope Pius XII,” American Presidency Project (August 28, 1947)
- Christianity
If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.1841–1935Often credited to Oliver Wendell Holmes
- Thinking
A Galileo could no more be elected president of the United States than he could be elected Pope of Rome. Both high posts are reserved for men favored by God with an extraordinary genius for swathing the bitter facts of life in bandages of self-illusion.
H. L. Mencken1880–1956
- Politics
America is not like a blanket: one piece of unbroken cloth, the same color, the same texture, the same size. America is more like a quilt: many patches, many pieces, many colors, many sizes, all woven and held together by a common thread.
Jesse Jackson1941–2026Address to the Democratic National Convention (1984)
We cannot be both the world’s leading champion of peace and the world’s leading supplier of arms.
Jimmy Carter1924–2024
- War & Peace
Our country offers the most wonderful example of democratic government on a giant scale that the world has ever seen; and the peoples of the world are watching to see whether we succeed or fail.
Theodore Roosevelt1858–1919
It is not what we have that will make us a great nation; it is the way in which we use it.
Theodore Roosevelt1858–1919
The American people are slow to wrath, but when their wrath is once kindled it burns like a consuming flame.
Theodore Roosevelt1858–1919
‘Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world.
George Washington1732–1799George Washington’s Farewell Address (1796)
- Politics
The women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.
Susan B. Anthony1820–1906
America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
G. K. Chesterton1874–1936What I Saw In America
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
The thing we all have to understand to put these last two years in focus, is that liberals in this country care more about whether European leaders like us than they do about whether terrorists are killing us.
Rush Limbaugh1951–2021
- Politics
The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.
Henry Kissinger1923–2023
Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear — kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor — with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it.
Douglas MacArthur1880–1964Address to the Annual Stockholders Sperry Rand Corporation (30 July 1957), as published in General MacArthur Speeches and Reports 1908-1964 (2000) by Edward T. Imparato, p. 206