#america

We had gone out on the road in 94 and 95 for a three month American tour, and we realised, as did our manager and booking agent at the time, that we have really exhausted it, and we can't make money at this anymore. ↗

— Steve Brown

#american #anymore #booking #did #exhausted

The links between the American government and the Iraqi government are so close that you cannot judge one without asking at least the other what he has done by this time. ↗

— Jacques Verges

#american government #asking #between #cannot #close

America rules the world - by force. ↗

— Harry Browne

#force #rules #world

I'm sorry that I can't snap my fingers and undo 50 years of bad American foreign policy. ↗

— Harry Browne

#american foreign policy #bad #fingers #foreign #foreign policy

In the 1880s, people all over the world looked to America for inspiration. Its very existence was proof that it was possible to have a relatively free and peaceful country. No income tax, no foreign wars, no welfare state, no intrusions on civil liberties. ↗

— Harry Browne

#civil #civil liberties #country #existence #foreign

The Bill of Rights isn't some legalistic fine print. It was written to make our lives freer, more prosperous, and happier. By forsaking it, America has become no better than any other country in the world. ↗

— Harry Browne

#any #become #better #bill #bill of rights

Whenever I say that America has become an empire, someone is sure to say I'm being ridiculous. ↗

— Harry Browne

#become #being #empire #i #ridiculous

Still, American composers working in France have had a pretty hard time. ↗

— Gavin Bryars

#composers #france #had #hard #hard time

The theory of permanent Muslim-Christian enmity, though it flourishes in the caves of Tora Bora and parts of the American academy, was long ago exploded by the historians. ↗

— James Buchan

#ago #american #caves #enmity #exploded

Louis Armstrong is quite simply the most important person in American music. He is to 20th century music (I did not say jazz) what Einstein is to physics. ↗

— Ken Burns

#american #american music #armstrong #century #did