Celebrity Quotes

blondes also prefer gentlemen

It is possible that blondes also prefer gentlemen.—Maimie Van Doren

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What then is the American, this new man?

“What then is the American, this new man?” He answered: “He is an American, who, leaving behind him all his ancient prejudices and manners, receives new ones from the new mode of life he has embraced, the new government he obeys, and the new rank he holds. He has become an American by being received in the broad lap of our great Alma Mater. Here individuals of all races are melted into a new race of man, whose labors and posterity will one day cause great changes in the world. Americans are the western pilgrims.”

--J. Hector St. John De Crevecoeur (Letters from an American Farmer)

There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism

There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all… The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English-Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian-Americans or Italian-Americans, each preserving its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans of that nationality, than with the other citizens of the American Republic… There is no such thing as a hyphenated American who is a good American. The only man who is a good American is the man who is an American and nothing else.
—Teddy Roosevelt

I like a little rebellion now and then

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable, on certain occasions, that I wish it to always be kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all.

I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere.
Thomas Jefferson – 1787

there was one of two things I had a right to

I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other.
Harriet Tubman

all government without the consent of the governed

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
Jonathan Swift

Men who look upon themselves as born to reign, and others to obey …

Men who look upon themselves as born to reign, and others to obey, soon grow insolent; selected from the rest of mankind their minds are early poisoned by importance; and the world they act in differs so materially from the world at large, that they have but little opportunity of knowing its true interests, and when they succeed to the government are frequently the most ignorant and unfit of any throughout the dominions.

- Thomas Paine

Socialism only works in two places

Socialism only works in two places: Heaven where they don’t need it and hell where they already have it.

-Ronald Reagan

Happiness isn’t something you experience …

Happiness isn’t something you experience; it’s something you remember.
—Oscar Levant