United States
- 1899 - George Dewey (1837–1917)
- 15 December 1944 - William D. Leahy (1875–1959)
- 17 December 1944 - Ernest King (1878–1956)
- 19 December 1944 - Chester Nimitz (1885–1966)
- 11 December 1945 - William Halsey, Jr. (1882–1959)
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“The popular colleges of the United States are turning out more educated people with less originality and fewer geniuses than any other country.”
—Caroline Nichols Churchill (1833–?)
“As a Tax-Paying Citizen of the United States I am entitled to a voice in Governmental affairs.... Having paid this unlawful Tax under written Protest for forty years, I am entitled to receive from the Treasury of ‘Uncle Sam’ the full amount of both Principal and Interest.”
—Susan Pecker Fowler (1823–1911)
“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)
“The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control—’indoctrination’ we might say—exercised through the mass media.”
—Noam Chomsky (b. 1928)
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Don’t join too many gangs. Join few if any.
Join the United States and join the family
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—Robert Frost (1874–1963)