#erica

An American cannot converse, but he can discuss, and his talk falls into a dissertation. He speaks to you as if he was addressing a meeting; and if he should chance to become warm in the discussion, he will say "Gentlemen" to the person with whom he is conversing. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

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The whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance, a revolutionary crisis, or a battle. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

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In dealing with the China problem, the British and American side, which had particularly strong interests in China, should have based its judgments about the origins of the problem on direct observation of the actual circumstances at the time. ↗

— Hideki Tojo

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The main American naval forces were shifted to the Pacific region and an American admiral made a strong declaration to the effect that if war were to break out between Japan and the United States, the Japanese navy could be sunk in a matter of weeks. ↗

— Hideki Tojo

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I got into radio when I was eight, and I was one of the busiest child dramatic actors in America. ↗

— Mel Torme

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Many artists in Mexico fight to be the Latina Madonna. I don't want that! Never! Maybe she's the American Gloria Trevi! ↗

— Gloria Trevi

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Look, if America - if being an American means anything, it means not having to lie under oath, not even for the president. ↗

— Linda Tripp

#american #anything #being #even #having

Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain - at least in a poor country like Russia - and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect. ↗

— Leon Trotsky

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The existence of an area of free land, its continuous recession, and the advance of American settlement, explain American development. ↗

— Frederick Jackson Turner

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I heard stories from my mother's mother who was an American Indian. She was spiritual, although she did not go to church, but she had the hum. She used to tell me stories of the rivers. ↗

— Tina Turner

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