#america

I suppose there's a melancholy tone at the back of the American mind, a sense of something lost. And it's the lost world of Thomas Jefferson. It is the lost sense of innocence that we could live with a very minimal state, with a vast sense of space in which to work out freedom. ↗

— George Will

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Look, three love affairs in history, are Abelard and Eloise, Romeo and Juliet and the American media and this President at the moment. But this doesn't matter over time. Reality will impinge. If his programs work, he's fine. If it doesn't work, all of the adulation of journalists in the world won't matter. ↗

— George Will

#affairs #american #american media #fine #his

Pessimism is as American as apple pie - frozen apple pie with a slice of processed cheese. ↗

— George Will

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We cannot, with good conscience, expect the British to set up an orderly schedule for the liberation of India before we have decided for ourselves to make all who live in America free. ↗

— Wendell Willkie

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I like The White Stripes and I like the kinda twang American thing right now. ↗

— Ann Wilson

#i #kinda #like #now #right

America in particular imposes an horrendous burden on the world. We have this wonderful standard of living but it comes at enormous cost. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

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A youthful American voice isn't particularly challenging - I've been a young American, and they're all around me. I can walk from my house to Barrington High School. ↗

— Gene Wolfe

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America - it is a fabulous country, the only fabulous country; it is the only place where miracles not only happen, but where they happen all the time. ↗

— Thomas Wolfe

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Look, I think the public generally understands that what's at stake in Afghanistan is American security, number one. ↗

— Paul Wolfowitz

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The American people are pretty impressive in their ability to keep after something if they think it is doable. ↗

— Paul Wolfowitz

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