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• Let us have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us dare to do our duty as we understand it.
  -- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) -- Address, New York City, Feb. 21, 1859...
• America is not a mere body of traders; it is a body of free men.
  Our greatness is built upon our freedom -- is moral, not material....
• Krusty: Now, let's hear it for a great American. Former President Gerald Ford.
  Ford: Thank you, Krusty, for inviting me. Krusty...
• Americans like to talk about (or be told about) Democracy but, when put to the test, usually find it to be an 'inconvenience.
  ' We have opted instead for an authoritarian system *disguised* as a Democracy....
• 10 years ago I was so ignorant, I didn't even know who the Prime Minister of America was.
• One thing to be said for Columbus, he didn't miss the boat, but about his discovery of America, what is so great about that?
  The place is quite literally too big to miss. Some say that Columbus found America, but this is incorrect, inasmuch as at the time of discovery, America was not listed as lost....
• We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.
  -- Vice President Dan Quayle, 1988...
• Ignorance is bliss... so life's great if you are ignorant.
• I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people.
  -- J. Danforth Quayle, quoted in "Time", 8 May 1989...