Favorite Quotations ~  America All the Presidents' Pets

"I am indebted to the press of the United States for almost every dollar which I possess." ~ P.T. Barnum

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I am tired of being labeled "anti-American" because I ask questions. ~ Susan Sarandon

I love this country, I love the principles on which it's founded. ~ Ross Perot

One characteristic of Americans is that they have no toleration at all of anybody putting up with anything. We believe that whatever is going wrong ought to be fixed. ~ Margaret Mead

This is America. We can do anything here. ~ Ted Turner

We are a great nation because we are a good people. ~ Elizabeth Dole

America makes prodigious mistakes but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to hell, of course, but at least she isn’t standing still. ~ e.e. cummings

Ours is the only country deliberately founded on a good idea. ~ John Gunther

E pluribus unum--out of many, one. ~ Great Seal of the United States

You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination. ~ Charles De Gaulle

America was built on the can-do spirit and will continue to thrive on the can-do spirit. ~ Robert Mondavi, Harvests of Joy

I think the most un-American thing you can say is, "You can't say that." ~ Garrison Keillor

Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. ~ Woodrow Wilson

But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr., I Have a Dream

Above the pyramid on the great seal of the United States it says in Latin: "God has favored our undertaking." God will not favor everything that we do. It is rather our duty to divine His will. ~ Lyndon B. Johnson, Speech, 3/15/65

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