#erica

Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains. ↗

— Paul Whiteman

#america #came #chains #hundred #jazz

Emancipation came to the colored race in America as a war measure. It was an act of military necessity. Manifestly it would have come without war, in the slower process of humanitarian reform and social enlightenment. ↗

— Wendell Willkie

#america #came #colored #come #emancipation

I have found that many other countries will buy off on anything American. As much as they hate us, they want to be us more than anything. ↗

— April Winchell

#anything #buy #countries #found #hate

I like Celtic folk music, Native American music, and any kind of early music. There isn't a lot of music that I don't like... except for Show Tunes. ↗

— Terri Windling

#american music #any #celtic #early #except

A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it. ↗

— Frank Lloyd Wright

#america #call #democracy #else #enslave

USDA is committed to keeping pace with the needs and progress of American agriculture by supporting new markets and movements that will keep farmers profitable and help create middle class jobs across the country. ↗

— Tom Vilsack

#agriculture #american #class #committed #country

We're a nation of laws, but the good thing about America, is that laws reside in the people and people can change the laws. ↗

— Rick Warren

#america #change #good #good thing #laws

The whole westward expansion myth is seen as romantic. But it's a joke, a blot on American history. ↗

— Frank Waters

#american history #blot #expansion #history #joke

As an educator, I have always striven to see that the fruits of the American Dream are available to all. ↗

— James D. Watson

#american #american dream #available #dream #educator

The past two decades revolutionized the way we access information. You and I can have our questions answered with the click of a mouse at any time of day. If America, both corporation and citizen alike, can use these services to solve problems, why can't Washington? ↗

— J. C. Watts

#alike #america #answered #any #both