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"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
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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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"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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"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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"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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"I hereby resign this office of president of the united states." »Richard Milhous Nixon
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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. This is what makes American what it is." »Gertrude Stein
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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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"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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"In a country as big as the united states, you can find fifty examples of anything." »Jeffery F. Chamberlain
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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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"In the united states today, we have more than our share of nattering nabobs of negativism." »Spiro Agnew
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"By heritage and by choice, the united states of America will make that stand." »George W. Bush, Speech to the United Nations, September 12, 2002
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"If I had my way, any man guilty of golf would be ineligible for any office of trust in the united states." »H. L. Mencken
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"The united states is a nation of laws badly written and randomly enforced." »Frank Zappa
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"In the united states, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell." »H.L. Mencken
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"The united states is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced." »Frank Zappa
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"Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the united states." »Ronald Reagan
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"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
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"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
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"The united states has become a place where entertainers and professional athletes are mistaken for people of importance." »Robert A. Heinlein
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"Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the united states." »J. Bartlett Brebner
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"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
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"A special Providence protects fools, drunkards, small children and the united states of America." »Otto von Bismarck
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"For all its flaws, I would feel safer to have my children grow up in a world dominated by the united states than by any other country." »Kobsak Chutikul, (deputy leader in Thailand), AP news release 3/7/03
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"I think that the Communist Party as a political organization is of no danger to the united states. It has no following and has been disregarded by the American people for many, many years." »Robert F. Kennedy, "A Thousand Days," by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. [1965]
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"This is obviously an act of war that has been committed on the united states. referring to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon" »John McCain
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