#united

When Hitler declared war on the United States, he was betting that German soldiers, raised up in the Hitler Youth, would always out fight American soldiers, brought up in the Boy Scouts. He lost that bet. The Boy Scouts had been taught how to figure their way out of their own problems. ↗

— Stephen E. Ambrose

#resourcefulness #united-states

Tyranny is Tyranny, let it come from whom it may. ↗

— Howard Zinn

#united-states

We are the United States of Amnesia, we learn nothing because we remember nothing. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#politics #united-states #united-states

It is a foregone opportunity that we could have a trillion dollars more of income for the United States if we were producing at capacity rather than falling so far short of it. ↗

— Peter Orszag

#could #dollars #falling #far #income

As a governor, I am naturally inclined to focus on the domestic side of protecting the United States. ↗

— Bill Owens

#am #domestic #focus #governor #i

In my time since moving to the United States, I've found that there is a dearth of great writing for black people. There are stories that depict us in a way that isn't cliched or niche, and that a white person, a Chinese person, an Indian person can watch and relate to. Those are the stories I want to be a part of telling. ↗

— David Oyelowo

#chinese #cliched #dearth #depict #found

We can always count on the Americans to do the right thing, after they have exhausted all the other possibilities. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#state

I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities- a sense of humor and a sense of proportion. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#humor #proportion #united-states #usa #humor

An old joke has an Oxford professor meeting an American former graduate student and asking him what he's working on these days. 'My thesis is on the survival of the class system in the United States.' 'Oh really, that's interesting: one didn't think there was a class system in the United States.' 'Nobody does. That's how it survives. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#humour #joke #united-states #united-states

The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#greatest #poem #states #themselves #united