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These regions, which yet form only an immense wilderness, will become one of the richest and most powerful countries in the world. Nothing is missing except civilized man, and he is at the door.

- Alexis de Tocqueville

America is a religion in itself.

- Michael Novak

America is conservative in fundamental principles, but the principles conserved are liberal and sometime radical.

- Gunnar Myrdal

I think that in no country in the civilized world is less attention paid to philosophy than in the United States.

- Alexis De Tocqueville

The United States is a nation of compromises.

- Shelby Foote

The government of the United States is a government of laws, and not of men.

- John Adams

The United States has a long history of failing to preserve civil liberties when it perceived its national security threatened. The country has remorsefully realized the abrogation of civil liberties was unnecessary. But it has proven unable to prevent itself from repeating the error when the next crisis came along.

- William Brennan

There are no second acts in American lives.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

Families are always rising and falling in America.

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Mississippi has a new story to tell every day.

- Mark Twain

Atlanta was soon lost behind the screen of trees and became a thing of the past. Around it clings many a thought of desperate battle, of hope and fear, that now seems like the memory of a dream.

- William Sherman

I believe that in the future, whoever holds Alaska will hold the world. I think it is the most important strategic place in the world.

- General Billy Mitchell

The Grid of New York is the most courageous act of prediction in Western civilization: the land it divides, unoccupied, the population it describes, conjectural; the buildings it locates, phantoms….

- Rem Koolhaas

One cannot dip a toe into the water of New York politics without sensing, moving somewhere deep beneath the surface, the presence of an enormous force, a power unseen but immense: the power of banks.

- Robert Caro

At what moment, exactly, did the city of Chicago cease to be part of nature? Even to ask the question suggests it’s absurdity.

- William Cronon

Brazil is the country of the future, always will be.

- Charles de Gaulle

In Columbia there are no train schedules, only rumors.

- Wade Davis