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America and Americans

«This American system of ours, call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you will, gives each and every one of us a great opportunity if we only seize it with both hands and make the most of it»
«This has been the remarkable thing about the fans in Chicago, they keep drawing an average of a million-three a year, and, when the season's over and they've won their usual seventy-one games, you feel that those fans deserve a medal.»
«Think of what would happen to us in America if there were no humorists; life would be one long Congressional Record»
«This is emphatically an age of discoveries; but I will venture the assertion, that none but an American slaveholder could have discovered that a man born in a country was not a citizen of it.»
«This land is your land, this land is my land, From California to the New York island, From the redwood forest to the Gulf Stream waters, This land was made for you and me»
«Tobacco exports should be expanded aggressively because Americans are smoking less»
«To those of you who received honours, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I say you, too, can be president of the United States.»
«The whole (global warming) thing is created to destroy America's free enterprise system and our economic stability»
«Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.»
«To be a Negro in America is to hope against hope.»