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America is just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.
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America is just the country that shows how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind.
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America is like one of those old-fashioned six-cylinder truck engines that can be missing two sparkplugs and have a broken flywheel and have a crankshaft that’s millimeters off fitting properly, and two bad ball-bearings, and still runs. We’re in that kind of situation. We can have substantial parts of the population committing suicide, and still run and look fairly good.
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America is not a democracy, it’s an absolute monarchy ruled by King Kid. In a nation of immigrants, the child is automatically more of an American than his parents. Americans regard children as what Mr. Hudson in Upstairs, Downstairs called betters. Aping their betters, American adults do their best to turn themselves into children. Puerility exercises droit de seigneur everywhere.
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America is not a young land: it is old and dirty and evil before the settlers, before the Indians. The evil is there waiting.
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America is not like a blanket-one piece of unbroken cloth, the same color, the same texture, the same size. America is more like a quilt-many patches, many pieces, many colors, many sizes, all woven and held together by a common thread.
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America is not merely a nation but a nation of nations.
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America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out of existence. The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set up by the non-dreamers.
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America is promises to take!merica is promises to us to take them.
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America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for. It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to be large.
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America is rising with a giant’s strength. Its bones are yet but cartilages.
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America is still the first, best hope for the human race
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America is the best half-educated country in the world.
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America is the country where you buy a lifetime supply of aspirin for one dollar, and use it up in two weeks.
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America is the great Satan, the wounded snake.
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America is the greatest, freest and most decent society in existence. It is an oasis of goodness in a desert of cynicism and barbarism. This country, once an experiment unique in the world, is now the last best hope for the world.
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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
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America is the world’s living myth. There’s no sense of wrong when you kill an American or blame America for some local disaster. This is our function, to be character types, to embody recurring themes that people can use to comfort themselves, justify themselves and so on. We’re here to accommodate. Whatever people need, we provide. myth is a useful thing.
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America is therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the World’s History shall reveal itself.
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America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many. This is not prophecy, but description.
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