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Americans are so enamored of equality, they would rather be equal

Americans are so enamored of equality, they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom. – Alexis de Tocqueville

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We have the Bill of Rights. What we need is a Bill of Responsibilities. – Bill Maher

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As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly decent, respectable, domestic, bourgeois, middle-class, and tiresome. There is absolutely nothing to revile except that its a bore. – Henry Adams

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We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of the Americans. – Ruben Askew

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We cannot reform the world…. Uncle Sugar is as dangerous a role for us to play as Uncle Shylock. – John F. Kennedy

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Libertarians know that a free country has nothing to fear from anyone coming in or going out – while a welfare state is scared to death of poor people coming in and rich people getting out. – Harry Browne

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