What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.

Margot Asquith

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I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just.

Thomas Jefferson 1784

From his denunciation of negro slavery.

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The world will little note nor long remember what we say here.

Abraham Lincoln 1863

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I pledge you - I pledge myself - to a new deal for the American people.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt 02/07/1932

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I called the New World into existence, to redress the balance of the old.

George Canning 12/12/1826

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I am an undiluted admirer of American values and the American dream and I believe they will continue to inspire not just the people of the United States but millions across the face of the globe.

Margaret Thatcher 05/08/1990

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America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense, it is the other way around. Human rights invented America

Jimmy Carter

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