Quotes on America
I don't think there is another person in America that wants to tell this story as much as I do. (Invoking Fifth Amendment)
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Oliver L. North Quotes
The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.
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Unknown Author Quotes
America is the land of wide lawns and narrow minds.
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Unknown Author Quotes
I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.
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Bob Dylan Quotes
The prostitute is the only honest woman left in America.
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Unknown Author Quotes
We cannot reform the world... Uncle Sugar is as dangerous a role for us to play as Uncle Shylock.
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John F. Kennedy Quotes
I pledge allegiance to my Flag and the Republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
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Francis Bellamy Quotes
When fascism comes to America, it will come wrapped in the American flag.
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Unknown Author Quotes
One characteristic of Americans is that they have no tolerance at all of anybody putting up with anything. We believe that whatever is going wrong ought to be fixed.
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Margaret Mead Quotes
I feel that I am a citizen of the American dream and that the revolutionary struggle of which I am a part is a struggle against the American nightmare.
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Eldridge Cleaver Quotes
America: Where a man can say what he thinks, if he isn't afraid of his wife, his boss, his customer, his neighbors, or the government.
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Joe Moore Quotes
I love America because America trusts me. When I go into a shop to buy a pair of shoes I am not asked to produce my Identity Card. I love it because my mail is not censored. My phone is not tapped. My conversation with friends is not reported to the secret police.
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Janina Atkins Quotes
The Iraqi regime is a threat to any American and to threats who are friends of America.
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George W. Bush Quotes
America is not like a blanket-one piece of unbroken cloth, the same color, the same texture, the same size. America is more like a quilt-many patches, many pieces, many colors, many sizes, all woven and held together by a common thread.
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Jesse Jackson Quotes
America is God's crucible, the great melting-pot where all the races of Europe are melting and reforming! The real American has not yet arrived. He is only in the crucible, I tell you - he will be the fusion of all races.
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Israel Zangwill Quotes
I now begin the journey that will lead me into the sunset of my life. I know that for America there will always be a bright dawn ahead.
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Unknown Author Quotes
I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort. If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.
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Henry James Quotes
What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.
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Margot Asquith Quotes
On Thanksgiving Day all over America, families sit down to dinner at the same moment - halftime.
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Unknown Author Quotes
My favorite thing about the United States? Lots of Americans, one America.
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Val Saintsbury Quotes
America's responsibility to history is to rid the world of evil.
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George W. Bush Quotes
Americans like fat books and thin women.
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Russell Baker Quotes
If you can speak three languages you're trilingual. If you can speak two languages you're bilingual. If you can speak only one language you're an American.
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Author Unknown Quotes
Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.
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Woodrow Wilson Quotes
America is a tune. It must be sung together.
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Gerald Stanley Lee Quotes
America is the only country ever founded on the printed word.
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Marshall McLuhan Quotes
The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colors breaking through.
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Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes
Let America add Mexico to Texas, and pile Cuba upon Canada; let the English overswarm all India, and hang out their blazing banner from the sun; two thirds of this terraqueous globe are the Nantucketer's. For the sea is his; he owns it.
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Herman Melville Quotes
The U. S. has to make it clear to Iraq and U. S. allies that ... America will use force without negotiation, hesitation or U. N. approval. ... We have to be ready to live with our own contradictory policy. Sure, it doesn't make perfect sense.
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Thomas Friedman Quotes
There's no question that the minute I got elected, the storm clouds on the horizon were getting nearly directly overhead.
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George W. Bush Quotes
But the true strength of America is found in the hearts and souls of people like Travis, people who are willing to love their neighbor, just like they would like to love themselves.
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George W. Bush Quotes
I had the opportunity to go out to Goree Island and talk about what slavery meant to America. It's very interesting when you think about it, the slaves who left here to go to America, because of their steadfast and their religion and their belief in freedom, helped change America. America is what it is today because of what went on in the past.
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George W. Bush Quotes
If you surveyed a hundred typical middle-aged Americans, I bet you'd find that only two of them could tell you their blood types, but every last one of them would know the theme song from The Beverly Hillbillies.
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Dave Barry Quotes
The metaphor of the melting pot is unfortunate and misleading. A more accurate analogy would be a salad bowl, for, though the salad is an entity, the lettuce can still be distinguished from the chicory, the tomatoes from the cabbage.
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Carl N. Degler Quotes
One of the most meaningful things that's happened to me since I've been the governor - the president - governor - president. Oops. Ex-governor. I went to Bethesda Naval Hospital to give a fellow a Purple Heart, and at the same moment I watched him - get a Purple Heart for action in Iraq - and at that same - right after I gave him the Purple Heart, he was sworn in as a citizen of the United States - a Mexican citizen, now a United States citizen.
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George W. Bush Quotes
America is so vast that almost everything said about it is likely to be true, and the opposite is probably equally true.
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James T. Farrell Quotes
We need an America with the wisdom of experience. But we must not let America grow old in spirit.
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Hubert H. Humphrey Quotes
They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they kept only one; they promised to take our land, and they did.
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Red Cloud Quotes
Not merely a nation but a nation of nations.
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Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
I bet after seeing us, George Washington would sue us for calling him "father."
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Will Rogers Quotes
America is much more than a geographical fact. It is a political and moral fact - the first community in which men set out in principle to institutionalize freedom, responsible government, and human equality.
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Adlai E. Stevenson Quotes
It's rural America. It's where I came from. We always refer to ourselves as real America. Rural America, real America, real, real, America.
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Dan Quayle Quotes
America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.
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Hunter S. Thompson Quotes
What this country needs is more free speech worth listening to.
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Hansell B. Duckett Quotes
When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white man came, an Indian said simply, "Ours."
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Vine Deloria Quotes
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 light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self-respect.
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Adlai E. Stevenson Quotes
It has been an unchallengeable American doctrine that cranberry sauce, a pink goo with overtones of sugared tomatoes, is a delectable necessity of the Thanksgiving board and that turkey is uneatable without it... There are some things in every country that you must be born to endure; and another hundred years of general satisfaction with Americans and America could not reconcile this expatriate to cranberry sauce, peanut butter, and drum majorettes.
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Alistair Cooke Quotes
Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.
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Calvin Coolidge Quotes
Europe will never be like America. Europe is a product of history. America is a product of philosophy.
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Unknown Author Quotes
The motivation for war is simple. The U. S. government started the war with Iraq in order to make it easy for U. S. corporations to do business in other countries. They intend to use cheap labor in those countries, which will make Americans rich.
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Michael Moore Quotes
America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still.
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E.E. Cummings Quotes
Here we write well when we expose frauds and hypocrites. We are great at counting warts and blemishes and weighting feet of clay. In expressing love, we belong among the underdeveloped countries.
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Saul Bellow Quotes
There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.
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Bill Clinton Quotes
America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.
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Unknown Author Quotes
No one flower can ever symbolize this nation. America is a bouquet.
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William Safire Quotes
Ours is the only country deliberately founded on a good idea.
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John Gunther Quotes
The U. S. has a new credibility. What we say goes.
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George H.W. Bush Quotes
Americans think of themselves collectively as a huge rescue squad on twenty-four-hour call to any spot on the globe where dispute and conflict may erupt.
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Eldridge Cleaver Quotes
Every time Europe looks across the Atlantic to see the American eagle, it observes only the rear end of an ostrich.
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Ambrose G. Bierce Quotes
We on this continent should never forget that men first crossed the Atlantic not to find soil for their ploughs but to secure liberty for their souls.
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Robert J. McCracken Quotes
What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.
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Will Rogers Quotes
Only Americans can hurt America.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
America is a country that doesn't know where it is going but is determined to set a speed record getting there.
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Laurence J. Peter Quotes
America is just the country that shows how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society.
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Peter Kroptkin Quotes
One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.
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Carl Sandburg Quotes
The skies of happiness shine upon these United States of America.
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Mirakel Reves Quotes
If we don't want to see the map of Central America covered in a sea of red, eventually lapping at our own borders, we must act now.
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Ronald Reagan Quotes
The three great American vices seem to be efficiency, punctuality, and the desire for achievement and success. They are the things that make the Americans so unhappy and so nervous.
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Lin Yutang Quotes
Americans are so enamored of equality, they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.
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Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes
There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong.
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Gilbert Keith Chesterton Quotes
Very little is known about the War of 1812 because the Americans lost it.
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Eric Nicol Quotes
Washington DC is the only place in America where people put bumper stickers on their cars the day AFTER the election.
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Unknown Author Quotes
It is a pity that instead of the Pilgrim Fathers landing on Plymouth Rock, Plymouth Rock had not landed on the Pilgrim Fathers.
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Chauncey Depew Quotes
This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.
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Elmer Davis Quotes
No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
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H.L. Mencken Quotes
I love my freedom. I love my America.
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Jessi Lane Adams Quotes
The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.
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Woodrow Wilson Quotes
As long as there are only three to four people on the floor, the country is in good hands. It's only when you have fifty to sixty in the Senate that you want to be concerned.
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Bob Dole Quotes
I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty.
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John F. Kennedy Quotes
America - a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose.
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Unknown Author Quotes
America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense, human rights invented America.
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Jimmy Carter Quotes
America is not only big and rich, it is mysterious; and its capacity for the humorous or ironical concealment of its interests matches that of the legendary inscrutable Chinese.
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David Riesman Quotes
America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.
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Sigmund Freud Quotes
I respect every soldier, from every country, who serves beside us in the hard work of history. America is grateful, and America will not forget.
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Unknown Author Quotes
The great thing about America is everybody should vote.
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George W. Bush Quotes
The American experiment is the most tremendous and far reaching engine of social change which has ever either blessed or cursed mankind.
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Charles Francis Adams Quotes
The United States is the only country with a known birthday.
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James G. Blaine Quotes
Americans always try to do the right thing after they've tried everything else.
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Winston Churchill Quotes
America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
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Bobcat Goldthwaite Quotes
There is a malaise that exists in your land - what appears to many as the sudden and tragic disappearance of the American dream which, in some ways, has turned to nightmare.
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J.J. Greene Quotes
We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.
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Benjamin Harrison Quotes
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.
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Thomas Jefferson Quotes
I will never admit that the beloved flag is to me merely the symbol of a land where I can live in rich content and make money.
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Henry Cabot Lodge Quotes
You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world... We are not a nation, so much as a world.
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Herman Melville Quotes
If America ever passes out as a great nation, we ought to put on our tombstone: America died from a delusion she had Moral Leadership.
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Will Rogers Quotes
America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people.
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Gloria Steinem Quotes
A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.
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Bill Vaughan Quotes
When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white man came, an Indian said simply, 'Ours'.
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Father Andrew SDC Quotes
America has never been an empire. We may be the only great power in history that had the chance, and refused ??“ preferring greatness to power and justice to glory.
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George W. Bush Quotes
America, why are your libraries full of tears?
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Unknown Author Quotes
The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.
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Unknown Author Quotes
America will never run... And we will always be grateful that liberty has found such brave defenders.
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Unknown Author Quotes
By heritage and by choice, the United States of America will make that stand.
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Unknown Author Quotes
There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.
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Bill Clinton Quotes
There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America.
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Barack Obama Quotes
As a world leader, America must be prepared to confront any challenge.
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Christopher Dodd Quotes
America's highways, roads, bridges, are an indispensable part of our lives. They link one end of our nation to the other. We use them each and every day, for every conceivable purpose.
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Christopher Dodd Quotes
By strengthening the economy, providing job opportunity and meeting the needs of working families, we can ensure the continued prosperity of our nation.
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Christopher Dodd Quotes
Advances in computer technology and the Internet have changed the way America works, learns, and communicates. The Internet has become an integral part of America's economic, political, and social life.
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Bill Clinton Quotes
Well, it's an unimaginable honor to be the president during the Fourth of July of this country. It means what these words say, for starters. The great inalienable rights of our country. We're blessed with such values in America. And I - it's - I'm a proud man to be the nation based upon such wonderful values.
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George W. Bush Quotes
At some point, we may be the only ones left. That's OK with me. We are America.
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