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"arab sovereignty in Jerusalem just cannot be. This city will not be divided-not half and half, not 60-40, not 75-25, nothing." »Golda Meir
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"The white, the Hispanic, the black, the arab, the Jew, the woman, the Native American, the small farmer, the businessperson, the environmentalist, the peace activist, the young, the old, the lesbian, the gay and the disabled make up the American quilt." »Jesse Louis Jackson
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"A hundred years ago, the electric telegraph made possible - indeed, inevitable - the united States of America. The communications satellite will make equally inevitable a united Nations of Earth; let us hope that the transition period will not be equally bloody." »Arthur C. Clarke, First on the Moon, 1970
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"republic. I like the sound of the word" »John Wayne
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"In the republic of mediocrity genius is dangerous." »Robert G. Ingersoll
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"Any appeasement of tyranny is treason to this republic and to the democratic ideal." »William Allen White
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"Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men." »Gerald R. Ford
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"The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another--no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy." »Friedrich Engels
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"The hopes of the republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self-serving wealth." »Franklin D. Roosevelt
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"When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic. Sell not liberty to purchase power." »Benjamin Franklin
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"The Islamic republic is proud to be the target of the rage of the world's greatest Satan. in response to George W. Bush's assertion of Iran as part of an axis of evil" »Ayatullah Khamenei
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"A democracy is two wolves and a small lamb voting on what to have for dinner. Freedom under a constitutional republic is a well armed lamb contesting the vote." »Benjamin Franklin
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"I had never expected that the China initiative would come to fruition in the form of a Ping-Pong team. (On first friendly overture by People's republic of China)" »Richard Milhous Nixon
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"Corporations have been enthroned .... An era of corruption in high places will follow and the money power will endeavor to prolong its reign by working on the prejudices of the people... until wealth is aggregated in a few hands ... and the republic is destroyed." »Abraham Lincoln
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"The true republic men, their rights and nothing more women, their rights and nothing less." »Franklin P. Adams
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"The death-knell of the republic had rung as soon as the active power became lodged in the hands of those who sought, not to do justice to all citizens, rich and poor alike, but to stand for one special class and for its interests as opposed to the interests of others." »Theodore Roosevelt
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"A sound American is simply one who has put out of his mind all doubts and questionings, and who accepts instantly, and as incontrovertible gospel, the whole body of official doctrine of his day, whatever it may be and no matter how often it may change. The instant he challenges it, no matter how timorously and academically, he ceases by that much to be a loyal and creditable citizen of the republic." »Henry Louis Mencken
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"I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. . . . Corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money-power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the republic is destroyed." »Unknown, Often attributed to Abraham Lincoln
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"I am not sure I am willing to do what it takes to become President of the united States" »Jack Kemp, Seattle, Washington, Winter 1996/97 lecture series, when asked if he would run for president in 2000
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"united we stand, divided we fall." »Aesop
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"In the united States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes American what it is." »Gertrude Stein
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"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
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"The united States is not just an old cow that gives more milk the more it's kicked in the flanks." »David Dean Rusk
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"The united States is like the guy at the party who gives cocaine to everybody and still nobody likes him." »Jim Samuels
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"In the united States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. That is what makes America what it is." »Gertrude Stein, The Geographical History of America (1936)
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"Poor Mexico - so far from God and so close to the united States." »Porfirio Diaz, Biography of Porfirio Diaz
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"If all the cars in the united States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day Weekend." »Doug Larson
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"I hereby resign this office of president of the united States." »Richard Milhous Nixon
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"Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the united States. Ask any Indian." »Robert Orben
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"The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the united States is that you have to shave twice a day." »Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
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