- Come
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- Nov 07, 2020
American Quotes
Many voices, one word.
These American quotes range from wry commentary on press culture to reflections on civic duty at the ballot box, plus lighter notes on dance companies and a television series praised as a genuine American classic. For more on the country itself, visit our America page.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Progressive
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was under Wilson, of course, that the first huge parts of the Marxist program, such as the progressive income tax, were incorporated into the American system.
- Constitution
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the Constitution of the American Republic there was a deliberate and very extensive and emphatic division of governmental power for the very purpose of preventing unbridled majority rule.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I also got a chance to go to the American Museum in New York, which helped my interest.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
The myth that the founding of American Republic was based on the philosophy of John Locke could only have been maintained, because the history of Leibniz's influence was suppressed.
- Battle
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- Nov 07, 2020
The American Revolution was, in fact, a battle against the philosophy of Locke and the English utilitarians.
- Examining
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- Nov 07, 2020
The myth that John Locke was the philosopher behind the American Republic, is easily refuted by examining how Locke's philosophy steered Thomas Jefferson, for example.
- Company
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- Nov 07, 2020
Instead of worrying about who's American and who's not, here's a better idea: Create incentives for any global company to do what we'd like it to do in the United States.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rather than subsidize 'American' exporters, it makes more sense to subsidize any global company - to the extent it's adding to its exports from the United States.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am proud to be an American Citizen.
- Loss
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- Nov 07, 2020
President Reagan was concerned - deeply concerned, emotionally concerned - with the loss of life of any American, but especially with the lives of military soldiers, Marines, navy.
- See
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- Nov 07, 2020
The extraordinary context of 'Coriolanus' is that it's the first republic - it's the first attempt to create a society not ruled by a monarch. It changes the whole system, and you see how the establishment reacts to that, how they have disdain but play along - and you recognize this is the whole American republican system.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, Fitzgerald was one of the great American writers of the last century; a wordsmith, a storyteller, a perfectionist.
- Beyond
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- Nov 07, 2020
A number of Americans were used, most often unwillingly, by North Korea to arm spies with English-speaking skills so they could target American interests in South Korea and beyond.
- Nov 07, 2020
My mother is an American.
- Painting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel.
- Nov 07, 2020