#erica

Bob Hope, like Mark Twain, had a sense of humor that was uniquely American, and like Twain, we'll likely not see another like him. ↗

— Dick Van Dyke

#another #bob #bob hope #had #him

Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge. ↗

— James Thurber

#composition #curious #fast #getting #graphic

I think you know that I classify science as British science, American science, and everybody else. ↗

— Martin Fleischmann

#british #classify #else #everybody #everybody else

The Declaration of Independence was always our vision of who we wanted to be, our ideal of freedom and justice, how we were going to be different, and what the American experiment was going to be about. ↗

— Marian Wright Edelman

#always #american #be different #declaration #different

I deplore the need or the use of troops anywhere to get American citizens to obey the orders of constituted courts. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#american citizens #anywhere #citizens #constituted #courts

Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#america #blood #confuse #dare #descended

America's downgrade may serve as a wakeup call for its policymakers. It is an unambiguous and loud signal of the country's eroding economic strength and global standing. It renders urgent the need to regain the initiative through better economic policymaking and more coherent governance. ↗

— Mohamed El-Erian

#better #call #coherent #country #downgrade

If anybody had a reason to become a delinquent, to become a criminal, to be angry at the man, to be angry at the white man, to be angry at America, it's my dad, but he did not feel that way at all. ↗

— Larry Elder

#angry #anybody #become #criminal #dad

I've broken my nose, I've broken ribs. You name it. In fact, we just got back from South America, and I fell over a monitor speaker on the stage and almost ended up in the front row of the audience. I managed to sprain my wrist on that one but luckily nothing was broken. ↗

— Keith Emerson

#america #audience #back #broken #ended

Too small is our world to allow discrimination, bigotry and intolerance to thrive in any corner of it, let alone in the United States of America. ↗

— Eliot Engel

#alone #america #any #corner #discrimination