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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 Americans have no commission from God to police the world. – Benjamin Harrison, address to Congress, 1888

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The freedom we have in America is like breathing in an entire open field of fresh air all at once. Sometimes too much air can be stifling. – Amali Ryvre, 2007

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Americans like fat books and thin women. – Russell Baker

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There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong. – G.K. Chesterton

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