Mitt Romney (1947) American businessman and politician
2012 stump speech, quoted in [2012-1-22, Steyn, Mark, The Man Who Gave Us Newt, National Review, http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/288873/man-who-gave-us-newt-mark-steyn, 2012-02-02]
2012
“America was the land where people still believed in heroes.”
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.
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Francis Parkman (1823–1893) American historian
Pt. I, Ch. 3
Pioneers of France in the New World (1865)
Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933) American politician, 30th president of the United States (in office from 1923 to 1929)
“Unhappy is the land that needs a hero.”
Bertolt Brecht book Life of Galileo
Scene 12, p. 115
Variant translations: Pity the country that needs heroes.
Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes
Source: Andrea: Unhappy is the land that breeds no hero.
Galileo: No, Andrea: Unhappy is the land that needs a hero. [Unglücklich das Land, das Helden nötig hat. ]
“John Kerry believes in an America where hard work is rewarded.”
Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America
2004, Democratic National Convention speech (July 2004)
“I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute”
John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America
where no Catholic prelate would tell the President (should he be Catholic) how to act, and no Protestant minister would tell his parishoners for whom to vote — where no church or church school is granted any public funds or political preference — and where no man is denied public office merely because his religion differs from the President who might appoint him or the people who might elect him.
1960, Speech to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association
“I believe in an America where the rights that I have described”
John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America
1960, Address at Convention Hall, Philadelphia
Context: I believe in an America where the rights that I have described are enjoyed by all, regardless of their race or their creed or their national origin — where every citizen is free to think and speak as he pleases and write and worship as he pleases — and where every citizen is free to vote as he pleases, without instructions from anyone, his employer, the union leader or his clergyman.
