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United States and Canada: Sample quotations
Al Capone
US gangster
I've been accused of every death except the casualty list of the World War.
[Newspaper interview]
Henry Clay
US politician
I had rather be right than be President.
[Remark to Senator Preston of South Carolina 1839]
Dwight Eisenhower
US president and general
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
[Speech in Washington 16 April 1953]
Ferdinand Foch
French marshal
What a marvellous place to drop one's mother-in-law!
[Attributed remark on being shown the Grand Canyon]
Ulysses Grant
US Republican president
I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.
[Inaugural Address, 4 March 1869]
John F Kennedy
US president
When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.
[Speech at White House 27 May 1962]
Martin Luther King
US civil-rights campaigner and Baptist minister
I've been to the mountaintop and I've seen the promised land ... I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.
[Addressing a rally the night before his murder, 1968]
Adlai Stevenson
US Democrat politician
In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes!
[Speech in Indianapolis 26 September 1952]
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