| "During the Second World War, the Germans took four years to build the Atlantic Wall. On four beaches it held up the Allies for about an hour at Omaha it held up the U.S. for less than one day. The Atlantic Wall must therefore be regarded as one of the greatest blunders in military history." »Stephen Ambrose |
| "Whoever has inhabited the United states must have perceived that in those parts of the Union in which the Negroes are no longer slaves the have in no wise drawn nearer to the whites. On the contrary, the prejudice of race appears to be stronger in the states that have abolished slavery than those where it still exists and nowhere is it intolerant as in those states where servitude has never been known." »Alexis Charles Henri Clrel de Tocqueville |
| "There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened." »Douglas Adams |
| "There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened." »Douglas Noel Adams |
| "By mid-November I always like to have an extra 15 pounds on me." »Andrew Schneider |
| "Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home." »John Howard Payne |
| "The preamble to the Constitution states We, the People of the United states, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquillity, provide for the common defence, promote the general welfare... It doesn't say guarantee the general welfare. And it certainly doesn't say give welfare benefits to all the people in the country who aren't doing so well even if the reason they aren't doing so well is because they're sitting on their butts in front of the TV." »P. J. O'Rourke |
| "It was no Insurrection or Rebellion, or even Civil War in any proper sense of these terms... The war... was a war between states regularly organized into two separate Federal Republics... In the beginning, and throughout the contest, the object of the 'Confederates' was to maintain the separate Sovereignty of each State, and the right of self-government, which that necessarily carries with it. The object of the 'Federals,' on the contrary, was to maintain a Centralized Sovereignty over all the states on both sides. This was the fundamental principle involved in the Conflict, which must be kept continually in mind." »Alexander Hamilton Stephens |
| "Five miles meandering with mazy motion,Through dale the sacred river ran,Then reached the caverns measureless to man,And sank the tumult to a lifeless oceanAnd 'mid this tumult Kubla heard from farAncestral voices prophesying war" »Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| "The shades of night were falling fast,As though an Alpine village passedA youth, who bore, 'mid snow and ice,A banner with the strange device,ExcelsiorHis brow was sad his eye beneath,Flashed like a falchion from its sheath,And like a silver clarion rungThe accents of that unknown tongue,Excelsior" »Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| "women life is very hard, morning wash cloths, noon dry cloths, evening iron clothes, night remove cloths, late mid night search clothes.." »Yassine Aumerally |
| "In the United states there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes America what it is." »Gertrude Stein |
| "I hereby resign this office of president of the United states." »Richard Milhous Nixon |
| "Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United states. Ask any Indian." »Robert Orben |
| "An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible." »Alfred A. Knopf |
| "The United states is like the guy at the party who gives cocaine to everybody and still nobody likes him." »Jim Samuels |
| "The United states is not just an old cow that gives more milk the more it's kicked in the flanks." »David Dean Rusk |
| "In the United states today, we have more than our share of nattering nabobs of negativism." »Spiro Agnew |
| "In a country as big as the United states, you can find fifty examples of anything." »Jeffery F. Chamberlain |
| "In the United states, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell." »H.L. Mencken |
| "How many ages hence Shall this our lofty scene be acted over In states unborn and accents yet unknown" »William Shakespeare |
| "The United states is a nation of laws badly written and randomly enforced." »Frank Zappa |
| "I haven't, in the 23 years that I have been in the uniformed services of the United states of America ever violated an order-not one." »Oliver L. North |
| "Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United states." »J. Bartlett Brebner |
| "I love the United states, but I see here everything is measured by success, by how much money it makes, not the satisfaction to the individual." »John Fellows Akers |
| "Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the states, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet." »Dave Barry |
| "If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United states, he can do it. All he must be prepared to do is give his life for the president's." »John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
| "The fidelity of the United states to security treaties is not just an empty matter. It is a pillar of peace in the world." »David Dean Rusk |
| "I think Superman should go on the Larry King show and announce that he would come back to life if people in all 50 states wanted him to." »Dave Barry |
| "Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death." »Anais Nin |
| BTW, Why won't you become an editor? |
