This land is your land, this land is my land
From California to the New York Island,
From the redwood forest to the Gulf Stream waters;
This land was made for you and me.

Woody Guthrie

This Land is Your Land

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Topic

America Equality

Speaker

Woody Guthrie

Source

This Land is Your Land

Medium

Song

Genre

Folk music

Language

English

Time

1945 1940s 20th century

Occupation

Singer Musician

From

United States

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Citation

Guthrie, Woodie. This Land Is Your Land. c. 1945.

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From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.

Winston Churchill

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Topic
Cold War Soviet Union
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Winston Churchill
Source
Sinews of Peace
Medium
Speech
Genre
Political speech
Statement Type
Metaphor, analogy and simile
Language
English
Time
1946 1940s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Churchill, Winston. "Sinews of Peace." 5 Mar. 1946, Westminster College, Fulton, MO, USA. Speech.

Current Citation

Churchill, Winston. "The Soviet Danger: The Iron Curtain." Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat: The Great Speeches, edited by David Cannadine. Penguin Classics, 2007.

Another quote about America

The love of wealth is therefore to be traced, as either a principal or accessory motive, at the bottom of all that the Americans do; this gives to all their passions a sort of family likeness.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Democracy in America

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Topic
Love of money American character America

Author

Alexis de Tocqueville
Source
Democracy in America
Genre
Political literature
Language
French
Time
1840 1840s 19th century
Authentication Score 2
Original Citation

Tocqueville, Alexis De. De La Democratie en Amerique [Democracy in America]. Vol. 2, London: Saunders and Otley, 1840, bk. 3. ch. 17.

Current Citation

Tocqueville, Alexis De. Democracy in America: The Complete and Unabridged Volumes I and II, translated by Henry Reeve. Bantam Classics, 2000, vol. 2, bk. 3. ch. 17.

Another quote from 1945

The buck stops here.

Harry Truman

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Topic
Political leadership Taking responsibility

Author

Harry Truman
Medium
Inscription
Language
English
Time
1945 1940s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Truman, Harry S. Sign on Truman's desk during his presidency. c. 1945.