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Letter "A" » America and Americans
«A world in which others controlled the course of their own development ... would be a world in which the American system would be seriously endangered.»
Author: Benjamin Cohen
| About:
America and Americans,
World
| Keywords:
American System, controlled, control system, development, endanger, endangered, endangers, of their own, The American
«Chicago ain't no sissy town.»
Author: Hinky Dink Kenna
(Politician)
| About:
America and Americans,
Chicago
| Keywords:
Chicago, sissies, sissy
«Chicago - a pompous Milwaukee.»
«Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.»
Author: Spiro T. Agnew
(Vice President)
| About:
America and Americans
| Keywords:
American people, anarchist, anarchists, an anarchist, bomb, confronted, policeman, truncheon
«Baseball gives every American boy a chance to excel, not just to be as good as someone else but to be better than someone else. This is the nature of man and the name of the game.»
Author: Ted Williams
(Baseball Player)
| About:
America and Americans,
Baseball
| Keywords:
as good as, baseball, baseball game, boy, excel, excelled, excelling, excels, excel at, game of chance, Good Boy, Just a Game, The Game, The name
«Crime and the fear of crime have permeated the fabric of American life.»
Author: Warren E. Burger
| About:
America and Americans,
Crime,
Fear
| Keywords:
American Life, fabric, permeated
«Certain people in the United States are driving nails into this structure of our relationship, then cutting off the heads. So the Soviets must use their teeth to pull them out.»
Author: Mikhail Gorbachev
(President)
| About:
America and Americans
| Keywords:
cutting, cutting off, drive off, heads of state, in the United States, nails, pull off, Soviets, tooth and nail
«A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.»
Author: W. H. Auden
(Dramatist, Editor, Poet)
| About:
America and Americans,
Work
| Keywords:
Anything Else, bores, everyday, go down, In America, likes, office, rich man, The Office, tremendous
«A rioter with a Molotov cocktail in his hands is not fighting for civil rights any more than a Klansman... They are both... lawbreakers, destroyers of constitutional rights and liberties and ultimately destroyers of a free America.»
Author: Lyndon B. Johnson
(President)
| About:
America and Americans,
Constitution,
Freedom
| Keywords:
civil, civil liberties, civil liberty, civil rights, cocktail, cocktails, constitutional, constitutional right, constitutional rights, destroyers, Klansman, lawbreaker, lawbreakers, liberties, Molotov, Molotov cocktail, rioter, rioters, The Destroyers
«Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!»
Author: Thomas Alva Edison
(Inventor)
| About:
America and Americans,
Business,
Faith
| Keywords:
depressions, go forward, prosperous
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