Quotes About American

This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

The rarest of all things in American life is charm. We spend billions every year manufacturing fake charm that goes under the heading of public relations. Without it, America would be grim indeed.

Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.

I believe we are being dishonest with language minority groups if we tell them they can take full part in American life without learning the English language.

When an American family becomes separated from its toothbrushes and combs and pajamas for a few hours it considers that it has had quite an adventure.

Crime and the fear of crime have permeated the fabric of American life.

The world of the 20th century, if it is to come to life in any viability of health and vigor, must be to a significant degree an American century.

The American way of life is not negotiable.

I understood....that in my own life I represented a whole period of American history.

Without God there could be no American form of government, nor an American way of life.

It is a point of pride for the American male to keep the same size jockey shorts for his entire life.

My goal is to make as many films as possible about different aspects of American life.

We have to be honest, we have to be truthful and speak to the one dirty secret in American life, and that is racism.

If you care for the quality of life in our American democracy, then you have to be for censorship.

The eleven o'clock hour on Sunday is the most segregated hour in American life.

Income taxes are responsible for the transformation of the Federal government from one of limited powers into a vast leviathan whose tentacles reach into almost every aspect of American life.

In one of the most wrenching tragedies in American history—a chronicle not lacking for tragedy—the Confederacy had lost the war, but it had won the peace.

the start of a new era, in which the course of history might be made predictable and a government established that would be ruled not by accident and force but by reason and choice. The origins of that idea, and its fate, are the story of American history.

In 1991, Warren Burger called the new interpretation of the Second Amendment "one of the greatest pieces of fraud, I repeat the word 'fraud,' on the American public by special interest groups that I have ever seen in my lifetime.

debates staged that year between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas proved to be the greatest argument over the American experiment since the constitutional convention. Those debates didn't avert the coming war between the

Does American history prove these truths, or does it belie them?

What stands out for me in this story is the seeming fact that Mark Zuckerberg and co. only pay attention to internal resistance when it reaches critical mass, which it only seems to do when the cause is American. I am aware of a number of attempts Facebook employees have made over the years to raise concerns about the handling of, for example, wrongful takedowns of Palestinian content or inattention to the growing problem of harassment … all of which were dismissed.

So it's not American values, per se, that are being exported to billions of users around the world, but the values of a very particular demographic—perhaps not incidentally the same demographic that made up Facebook's first set of users.

if Abt was unavailable he would accept the services of a Dallas American Civil Liberties Union lawyer.