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Letter "A" » America and Americans
«When a family is involved in a human rights movement, as in the Mexican- American family, there is little room for a woman's liberation movement alone»
Author: Enriqueta Longauex-Vasquez
| About:
America and Americans,
Family,
Right
| Keywords:
liberation, The Mexican
«When I was a graduate student at Harvard, I learned about showers and central heating. Ten years later, I learned about breakfast meetings. These are America's three great contributions to civilization.»
Author: Mervyn A. King
| About:
America and Americans,
Civilization,
Learning,
Students
| Keywords:
central, central heating, contributions, graduate, graduate student, graduate students, Harvard, heating, meetings, showers, Ten Years Later
«When the [Supreme] Court moved to Washington in 1800, it was provided with no books, which probably accounts for the high quality of early opinions.»
Author: Robert H. Jackson
| About:
America and Americans,
Books,
Justice,
Opinions
| Keywords:
accounts, high quality, moved to, provided with, Supreme Court
«When the war closed we were challenged with a peace-time choice between the American system of rugged individualism and a European philosophy of diametrically opposed doctrines - doctrines of paternalism and state socialism»
Author: Herbert Hoover
(President)
| About:
America and Americans,
War
| Keywords:
American System, diametrically, European, paternalism, Philosophy of, rugged individualism
«When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies glistening in the sun, the wide and rising plains, the great mountains, and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, an inner li»
Author: Adlai E. Stevenson
(Ambassador, Governor, Politician)
| About:
America and Americans
| Keywords:
glisten, glistening, Hill Country, plains, prairie, prairies
«When I contemplate the interposition of Providence, as it was visibly manifested, in guiding us through the Revolution, in preparing us for the reception of a general government, and in conciliating the good will of the People of America towards one»
Author: George Washington
(President)
| About:
America and Americans,
Providence
| Keywords:
conciliate, conciliating, General Government, interposition, manifested, reception, receptions, visibly
«When good Americans die they go to Paris.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
America and Americans
| Keywords:
Americans, Paris
«Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
America and Americans,
Government
| Keywords:
as to, attract, informed, informing, informs, notice, relied, relying, rights, so far, trusted, well-informed
«When any one State in the American Union refuses obedience to the Confederation by which they have bound themselves, the rest have a natural right to compel them to obedience»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
America and Americans,
Obedience
| Keywords:
American union, compel, confederation, Natural right, natural state, obedience, refuses
«When the Oakies left Oklahoma and moved to California, it raised the I.Q. of both states.»
Author: Will Rogers
| About:
America and Americans
| Keywords:
California, I.Q., IQ, moved, moved to, Oklahoma, raised, States
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