 | "In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes."
- Adlai E. Jr. Stevenson
, Speech in Indianapolis, 26 Sept. 1952. |
| "America's greatest strength, and its greatest weakness, is our belief in second chances, our belief that we can always start over, that things can be made better."
- Anthony Walton
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| "America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair."
- Arnold Toynbee
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| "America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole."
- Bobcat Goldthwaite
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| "The trouble with America is that there are far too many wide-open spaces surrounded by teeth."
- Charles Luckman
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| "The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced."
- Frank Zappa
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| "England and America are two countries separated by a common language."
- George Bernard Shaw
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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). |
| "In a country as big as the United States, you can find fifty examples of anything."
- Jeffery F. Chamberlain
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| "America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy."
- John Updike
, Problems and Other Stories. |