Famous America Quotes Part – 24

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That drug stores make the sick walk to the back of store to get a prescription&the healthy can buy cigarettes at the front

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The American advertiser has made the superior American magazine of today possible.

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The American cemetery at Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer is a great lawn at the edge of the sea, white marble crosses and Stars of David against an open horizon. very American in the best sense: no phony piety, simple, easy.

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The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It’s over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam…

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The American mood, perhaps even the American character, has changed. There are few manifestations any longer of the old American self-assurance which so irritated Dickens. Instead, there is a sense of frustration so perceptible that even our politicians have attempted to exploit it.

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The American people abhor a vacuum.

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The American people have a genius for splendid and unselfish action, and into the hands of America, God has placed the destinies of afflicted humanity.

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The American people still believe in peace, human rights and justice; they are still a generous, fair-minded, open-minded people

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The American people, over a period of more than two centuries, have already proved that they are willing to contribute generously of their money and goods to help others.

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The American public tunes in every night hoping to see two people screwing. Obviously, we can’t give them that but let’s always keep it in mind.

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The American system is the most ingenious system of control in world history. With a country so rich in natural resources, talent and labour power the system can afford to distribute just enough wealth to just enough people to limit discontent to a troublesome minority. It is a country so powerful, so big, so pleasing to so many of its’ citizens that it can afford to give freedom of dissent to the small number who are not pleased. There is no system of control with more openings, apertures, flexibilities, rewards for the chosen. […] There is none that disperses its control more complexly through the voting system, the work situation, the church, the family, the school, the mass media – none more successful in mollifying opposition with reforms, isolating people from one another, creating patriotic loyalty.

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The Americans are violently oral. That’s why in America the mother is all-important and the father has no position at all — isn’t respected in the least. Even the American passion for laxatives can be explained as an oral manifestation. They want to get rid of any unpleasantness taken in through the mouth.

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The Americans will always do the right thing… After they’ve exhausted all the alternatives.

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The biggest difference between ancient Rome and the USA is that in Rome the common man was treated like a dog. In America he sets the tone. This is the first country where the common man could stand erect.

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The breaking waves dashed high On a stern and rock-bound coast; And the woods against a stormy sky, Their giant branches toss’d.

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The city’s frightening now. That’s the basis of my reaction to Las Vegas. It’s not the city I wrote about. It’s not the same place at all. You’ll notice that even the – what do you call them? – milestone or trademark casinos are now gone.

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The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.

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The content and forms of American communications-the myths and the means of transmitting them-are devoted to manipulation. When successfully employed, as they invariably are, the result is individual passivity, a state of inertia that precludes action.

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The convention which framed the Constitution of the United States was composed of fifty-five members. A majority were lawyers—not one farmer, mechanic or laborer. Forty owned Revolutionary Scrip. Fourteen were land speculators. Twenty-four were money-lenders. Eleven were merchants. Fifteen were slave-holders. They made a Constitution to protect the rights of property and not the rights of man.

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The creation of the United States of America is the greatest of all human adventures


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