A citizen of America

A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy but won’t cross the street to vote in a national election.

~ Bill Vaughn

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A fat paunch never breeds fine thoughts.

~ Saint Jerome

After a heated argument on some trivial matter Nancy Astor . shouted, If I were your wife I would put poison in your coffee Whereupon Winston Churchill answered, And if I were your husband I would drink it.

~ John Fellows Akers

To me, there’s no better symbol for the world than a grasshopper lying dead on a gravel road, and maybe there’s a globe lying next to him.

~ Jack Handey Deep

You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break.

~ Harry S. Truman

If solid happiness we prize, Within our breast this jewel lies, And they are fools who roam. The world has nothing to bestow; From our own selves our joys must flow, And that dear hut, our home.

~ Nathaniel Cotton

Our party believes in diversity, not uniformity.

~ Francis Maude

The opportunities for heroism are limited in this kind of world the most people can do is sometimes not to be as weak as they’ve been at other times.

~ Angus N. Wilson

Estate agents are people who did not make it as second-hand car salesmen.

~ Billy Connolly

Education a debt due from present to future generations.

~ George Peabody

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