“This country would not be a land of opportunity, America could not be America, if the people were shackled with government monopolies.”
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Calvin Coolidge412
American politician, 30th president of the United States (i… 1872–1933Related quotes
Hillary Clinton (1947) American politician, senator, Secretary of State, First Lady
Presidential campaign (April 12, 2015 – 2016), Speech in (August 25, 2016)
Russ Feingold (1953) Wisconsin politician; three-term U.S. Senator
On concerns over the passage of the Patriot Act on October 25, 2001, in
2001
Context: Of course, there is no doubt that if we lived in a police state, it would be easier to catch terrorists. If we lived in a country that allowed the police to search your home at any time for any reason; if we lived in a country that allowed the government to open your mail, eavesdrop on your phone conversations, or intercept your email communications; if we lived in a country that allowed the government to hold people in jail indefinitely based on what they write or think, or based on mere suspicion that they are up to no good, then the government would no doubt discover and arrest more terrorists. But that probably would not be a country in which we would want to live. And that would not be a country for which we could, in good conscience, ask our young people to fight and die. In short, that would not be America.
“I see an America where poverty is defeated by opportunity, not enabled by a government check.”
Mitt Romney (1947) American businessman and politician
2012-03-20
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/03/20/mitt_romneys_illinois_victory_speech_113565.html
Mitt Romney's Illinois Victory Speech
RealClearPolitics
2012
Hassan Rouhani (1948) 7th President of Islamic Republic of Iran
"Exclusive Interview with Iranian Adviser" http://abcnews.go.com/Primetime/story?id=132082&page=1&singlePage=true, ABC News, (September 12, 2002)
“America was the land where people still believed in heroes.”
Norman Mailer (1923–2007) American novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, film maker, actor and political candidate
Superman Comes to the Supermarket (1960)
Context: America was the country in which the dynamic myth of the Renaissance — that every man was potentially extraordinary — knew its most passionate persistence. Simply, America was the land where people still believed in heroes.
Dinesh D'Souza (1961) Indian-American political commentator, filmmaker, author
Documentary films, America: Imagine the World Without Her (2014)
Henry James (1843–1916) American novelist, short story author, and literary critic
Said to Hamlin Garland in 1906 and quoted by Garland in Roadside Meetings (1930; reprinted by Kessinger Publishing, 2005, ISBN 1-417-90788-6, ch. XXXVI: Henry James at Rye (p. 461).
Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette (1757–1834) French general and politician
As quoted in a letter by Thomas Clarkson (3 October 1845), published in The Liberty Bell (1846), p. 64