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Barack Obama

Former President of the United States

There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America.

Liberalism - State - Unions

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John Calvin

Theologian, Pastor, Reformer

It is a promise which eminently deserves our observation that all who are united to Christ and acknowledge Him to be Christ and Mediator will remain to the end safe from all danger, for what is said of the body of the Church belongs to each of its members since they are one in Christ.

End - Safety - Unions

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

Military Officer, Former President of the United States

If Berlin fell, the US would lose Europe, and if Europe fell into the hands of the Soviet Union and thus added its great industrial plant to the USSR's already great industrial plant, the United States would be reduced to the character of a garrison state if it were to survive at all.

Loss - State - Unions

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Theodore Roosevelt

Former President of the United States

The true friend of property, the true conservative, is he who insists that property shall be the servant and not the master of the commonwealth; who insists that the creature of man’s making shall be the servant and not the master of the man who made it. The citizens of the United States must effectively control the mighty commercial forces which they have called into being. There can be no effective control of corporations while their political activity remains. To put an end to it will be neither a short nor an easy task, but it can be done.

Citizenry - Creativity - End - Making - Man - Mastering - Politics - State - Unions

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Lyndon B. Johnson

Former President of the United States

What we won when all of our people united just must not now be lost in suspicion, distrust, selfishness, and politics among any of our people. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as your President.

Accept - Loss - Unions

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Colin Powell

Former United States Secretary of State

It is the fault of the United States that these terrible people, these insurgents and terrorists are out there. They are the ones that we ought to be focusing our energy on defeating and not just wring our hands about the fact that it's going to be difficult.

Difficulty - Fault - State - Unions

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Barack Obama

Former President of the United States

It's a moral imperative, it's an economic imperative, and it is a security imperative. For we've seen how spikes in food prices can plunge millions into poverty, which, in turn, can spark riots that cost lives, and can lead to instability. And this danger will only grow if a surging global population isn't matched by surging food production. So reducing malnutrition and hunger around the world advances international peace and security - and that includes the national security of the United States.

Economy - Growing - Morals - Production - Reduction - State - Unions

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Mao Zedong

Founding Father of the People's Republic of China

The atom bomb is a paper tiger which the United States reactionaries use to scare people. It looks terrible, but in fact it isn't.

Facts - Scary - State - Unions

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Barack Obama

Former President of the United States

You want to be commander-in-chief? You can start by standing up for the men and women who wear the uniform of the United States, even when it's not politically convenient.

Convenience - Man - State - Unions - Wants

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Barack Obama

Former President of the United States

One of the things that I've learned, and I think we've all learned, is that we are not going to get the kind of decisive, permanent victories in this fight against terrorism that we would get from fighting another country. We're not going to get that MacArthur/Emperor moment, because by definition, even after decimating Al Qaeda in the Fata, even after taking out [Osama] bin Laden there's still people there who have both the interest and the capacity if we don't maintain vigilance to strike against the United States.

Countries - Empires - Kindness - Permanence - State - Unions

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Woodrow Wilson

Former President of the United States

A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.

Greatness - Man - Ownership - State - Unions

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Barack Obama

Former President of the United States

There's something about the American spirit -В– inherent in the American spirit -- we don't hang on to the past. We always move forward.... We are going to leave something better for our children В–- not just here in the United States, but all around the world.

Movement - Spirits - State - Unions

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Victor Hugo

Poet, Novelist, Dramatist

I represent a party which does not yet exist: the party Revolution-Civilization. This party will make the twentieth century. There will issue from it first the United States of Europe, then the United States of the World.

State - Unions

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Jay Leno

Comedian, Actor, Writer, Producer, TV Host

President Obama's been reaching out to Iran, reaching out to Cuba, reaching out to Latin America. The only place he can't seem to be able to reach out to: Texas. ... Despite Governor Rick Perry talking about how Texas could secede from the Union if it wanted to, 75 per cent of the people who live there want to stay in the United States. Of course they want to stay. I mean, after spending all that time and effort sneaking across the border to get here, why would they want to leave?

Ability - Border - Government - Meaning - State - Talk - Unions - Wants

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Kofi Annan

Former Secretary General of the United Nations

His Holiness brings a wealth of experience to this exalted office. The United Nations and the Holy See share a strong commitment to peace, social justice, human dignity, religious freedom and mutual respect among the world's religions.

Holiness - Human - Judging - Religion - Sharing - Strength - Unions

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Ayn Rand

Writer, Philosopher

Capitalism has been called nationalistic - yet it is the only system that banished ethnicity, and made it possible, in the United States, for men of various, formerly antagonistic nationalities to live together in peace.

Capitalism - Ethnicity - Making - Man - Nationalism - Nationality - Politics - State - Together - Unions

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Lyndon B. Johnson

Former President of the United States

It is important that the United States remain a two-party system. I'm a fellow who likes small parties and the Republican Party can't be too small to suit me.

Politics - State - Unions

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Abraham Lincoln

Former President of the United States

To the best of my judgment, I have labored for, and not against, the Union. As I have not felt, so I have not expressed any harsh sentiment towards our Southern brethren. I have constantly declared, as I really believed, the only difference between them and us is the difference of circumstances.

Belief - Expressing - Feelings - Good - Harshness - Judging - Unions

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Bertrand Russell

Philosopher, Writer, Activist

The Mormons had a divine revelation in favour of polygamy, but under pressure from the United States Government they discovered that the revelation was not binding.

Boundaries - Revelation - State - Unions

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Maya Angelou

Poet, Singer, Writer, Civil Rights Activist

If you were the President of the United States or the Queen of England - you couldn't have a person who would be more protective than my mother was for me. Which meant really that I could dare to do all sorts of things.

State - Unions

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Jane Fonda

Actress, Writer, Political Activist

I am still baffled by those who feel that criticizing America is unpatriotic, a view increasingly being adopted in the United States since 9/11 as an excuse to render suspect what has always been an American right. An active, brave, outspoken (and heard) citizenry is essential to a healthy democracy.

Activity - Adoption - Bravery - Essence - Feelings - Health - Hearing - State - Suspicion - Unions

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Ayn Rand

Writer, Philosopher

I can say-not as a patriotic bromide, but with full knowledge of the necessary metaphysical, epistemological , ethical, political and esthetic roots-that the United States of America is the greatest, the noblest and, in its original founding principles, the only moral country in the history of the world.

America - Countries - Ethics - Morals - Original - Patriotism - Politics - Principle - State - Unions - World

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Joe Biden

President of the United States

It's why we oppose Citizens United from that right-wing Supreme Court. In 2012, I also said the Tea Party "acted like terrorists" and called a donut shop manager in Milwaukee who wanted lower taxes a "smartass." And I said the number one issue is a three-letter word, J-O-B-S." I'm proud of who I am.

Citizenry - Courting - Management - Tax - Unions - Wants

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

Former President of the United States

There should be no bitterness or hate where the sole thought is the welfare of the United States of America. No man can occupy the office of President without realizing that he is President of all the people.

Man - Realization - State - Unions

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Colin Powell

Former United States Secretary of State

When you decide to get involved in a military operation in a place like Syria, you've got to be prepared, as we learned from Iraq and Afghanistan, to become the government, and I'm not sure any country, either the United States or I don't hear of anyone else, who's willing to take on that responsibility.

Countries - Decision - Hearing - Learning - Preparedness - State - Taking - Unions

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Noam Chomsky

Linguist, Philosopher, Cognitive Scientist, Social Critic, Political Activist

The United States is going to continue to punish Iran because of its defiance.

State - Unions

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Frank Lloyd Wright

Architect, Interior Designer, Educator

The dynamic ideal we call democracy, gradually growing up in the human heart for two-thousand five hundred years, at least, has now every opportunity to found the natural democratic state in these United States of America by way of natural economic order and a natural, or organic, architecture.

Democracy - Economy - Finding - Human - State - Unions

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Barack Obama

Former President of the United States

Let us remember we are all part of one American family. We are united in common values, and that includes belief in equality under the law, basic respect for public order, and the right of peaceful protest.

America - Protesting - Remembering - Unions - Value

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Thomas Mann

Writer

Literature... is the union of suffering with the instinct for form.

Unions

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John F. Kennedy

Former President of the United States

Why should man's first flight to the moon be a matter of national competition? Why should the United States and the Soviet Union, in preparing for such expeditions, become involved in immense duplications of research, construction and expenditure?

Compete - Nationality - State - Unions

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Barack Obama

Former President of the United States

The United States has been enriched by Muslim Americans. Many other Americans have Muslims in their families or have lived in a Muslim-majority country - I know, because I am one of them.

Countries - State - Unions

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Leo Tolstoy

Writer

But men are now united in states; that work is done; why now maintain exclusive devotion to one's own state, when this produces terrible evils for all.

Man - Production - State - Unions

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