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Four years ago, some said the world had grown calm, and many assumed that the United States was invulnerable to danger. That thought might have been comforting; it was also false. Like other generations of Americans, we soon discovered that history had great and unexpected duties in store for us.
Dick Cheney1941–2025
In our nation’s 246 year history, there has never been an individual who is a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump.
Dick Cheney1941–2025Campaign advertisement for Liz Cheney’s re-election (August 2022)
- Politics
- Presidency
You don’t have to be smart to act — look at the outgoing president of the United States.
Cherborn 1946Remark (December 1988), reported in Brewer’s Cinema (1995)
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
America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
G. K. Chesterton1874–1936What I Saw In America
There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong.
G. K. Chesterton1874–1936
I don’t measure America by its achievement but by its potential.
Shirley Chisholm1924–2005Unbought and Unbossed (1970), p. 175.
The United States effectively has a one-party system, the business party, with two factions, Republicans and Democrats.
Noam Chomskyborn 1928Making the Future: Occupations, Interventions, Empire and Resistance (2012), p. 83
- Politics
I choose to live in what I think is the greatest country in the world, which is committing horrendous terrorist acts and should stop.
Noam Chomskyborn 1928Debate with Bill Bennett on CNN, May 30, 2002
As the most powerful state, the U.S. makes its own laws, using force and conducting economic warfare at will.
Noam Chomskyborn 1928In Tony Evans (ed.), Human Rights Fifty Years on: A Reappraisal, 1997
- Power
Americans can always be counted on to do the right thing…after they have exhausted all other possibilities.
Winston Churchill1874–1965
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
The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity⁠—unlimited, undefined, endless, perpetual posterity.
Henry Clay1777–1852Speech, Senate (29 January 1850)
- Laws
I know no South, no North, no East, no West, to which I owe any allegiance.
Henry Clay1777–1852Speech in the US Senate (14 February 1850), replying to Senator Henry S. Foote
- Patriotism
Americans think of themselves collectively as a huge rescue squad on twenty-four-hour call to any spot on the globe where dispute and conflict may erupt.
Eldridge Cleaver1935–1998Soul on Ice (1968), Part II: “Rallying Round the Flag”