Famous quotes containing the words ugly and/or american:
“Sacred or not, sacrifice is an ugly business.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“The American people owe it to themselves, and to the cause of free Government, to prove by their establishments for the advancement and diffusion of knowledge, that their political Institutions ... are as favorable to the intellectual and moral improvement of Man as they are conformable to his individual and social rights.”
—James Madison (1751–1836)