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- John Clarke (Baptist minister) (1609–1676), co-founder of Rhode Island
- John Clarke (Congregationalist minister) (1755–1798), minister, First Church, Boston, Massachusetts
- John Clarke (poet) (1933–1992), American poet
- John Clarke (general), American general in the Creek War (1813–1814), from Georgia
- John Clarke (fur trader) (1781–1852), Hudson's Bay Company fur trader
- John Clarke (actor) (born 1932), American soap opera actor from Days of Our Lives
- John Blades Clarke (1833–1911), U.S. representative from Kentucky, 1875–1876
- John D. Clarke (1873–1933), U.S. representative from New York, 1921–1924 and 1927–1934
- John Hessin Clarke (1857–1945), associate justice of the US Supreme Court
- John Hopkins Clarke (1789–1870), U.S. Senator from Rhode Island, 1847–1852
- John Henrik Clarke (1915–1998), self-taught scholar who became an authority on African history and an advocate for Black Studies
- John Jones Clarke (1803–1887), American politician in the Massachusetts legislature
- John L. Clarke (1905–1991), served as president of Ricks College
- John Louis Clarke (1881–1970), Blackfoot wood carver from Montana
- John Proctor Clarke (1856–1932), judge in New York State
- John Sleeper Clarke (1833–1899), American/British actor and manager
- J. Richard Clarke (born 1927), leader in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
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“Yesterday, December 7, 1941Ma date that will live in infamy—the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)
“I thought it altogether proper that I should take a brief furlough from official duties at Washington to mingle with you here to-day as a comrade, because every President of the United States must realize that the strength of the Government, its defence in war, the army that is to muster under its banner when our Nation is assailed, is to be found here in the masses of our people.”
—Benjamin Harrison (1833–1901)
“Greece is a sort of American vassal; the Netherlands is the country of American bases that grow like tulip bulbs; Cuba is the main sugar plantation of the American monopolies; Turkey is prepared to kow-tow before any United States pro-consul and Canada is the boring second fiddle in the American symphony.”
—Andrei Andreyevich Gromyko (1909–1989)
“The boys dressed themselves, hid their accoutrements, and went off grieving that there were no outlaws any more, and wondering what modern civilization could claim to have done to compensate for their loss. They said they would rather be outlaws a year in Sherwood Forest than President of the United States forever.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“We can beat all Europe with United States soldiers. Give me a thousand Tennesseans, and I’ll whip any other thousand men on the globe!”
—Andrew Jackson (1767–1845)