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The real democratic American idea is not that every man shall be on a level with every other, but that everyone shall have liberty, without hindrance, to be what God made him.
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The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the large centers has owned the government of the U.S. since the days of Andrew Jackson.
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The right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time.
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The rising power of the United States in world affairs requires, not a more compliant press, but a relentless barrage of facts and criticism. Our job in this age, as I see it, is not to serve as cheerleaders for our side in the present world struggle but to help the largest possible number of people to see the realities of the changing and convulsive world in which American policy must operate.
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The spirit is at home, if not entirely satisfied, in America
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The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying ‘Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses. She’s got a baseball bat and she’s yelling, ‘You want a piece of me?!’
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The strikebreaker is the hero of American industry.
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The superficiality of the American is the result of his hustling. It needs leisure to think things out; it needs leisure to mature. People in a hurry cannot think, cannot grow, nor can they decay. They are preserved in a state of perpetual puerility.
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The tale of the slaughter at Wounded Knee in South Dakota is [an] example too well known to require detailed repeating here, but what is less well known about that massacre is that, a week and a half before it happened, the editor of the South Dakotas Aberdeen Saturday Pioneera gentle soul named L. Frank Baum, who later became famous as the author of The Wizard of Ozurged the wholesale extermination of all Americas native peoples: The nobility of the Redskin is extinguished, and what few are left are a pack of whining curs who lick the hand that smites them. The Whites, by law of conquest, by justice of civilization, are masters of the American continent, and the best safety of the frontier settlements will be secured by the total annihilation of the few remaining Indians. Why not annihilation? Their glory has fled, their spirit broken, their manhood effaced; better that they should die than live the miserable wretches that they are.
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The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.
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The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, ‘The trouble with this country is…
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The United States cannot reshape other countries in its own image and that, with a few exceptions, its efforts to police the world are neither in its interests nor within the scope of its resources. This whole tendency to see ourselves as the center of political enlightenment and as teachers to a great part of the rest of the world strikes me as unthought-through, vainglorious and undesirable.
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The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.
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The United States is just now the oldest country in the world, there always is an oldest country and she is it, it is she who is the mother of the twentieth century civilization. She began to feel herself as it just after the Civil War.nd so it is a country the right age to have been born in and the wrong age to live in.
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The United States stands at the pinnacle of world power. This is a solemn moment for the American democracy. For with primacy in power is joined an awe-inspiring accountability for the future.
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The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem
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The voice of America has no undertones or overtones in it. It repeats its optimistic catchwords in a tireless monologue that has the slightly metallic sound of a gramophone.
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The wonder of nature is the treasure of America….The precious legacy of preservation of beauty will be our gift to posterity.
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The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.
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Their manners, speech, dress, friendships — the freshness and candor of their physiognomy — the picturesque looseness of their carriage — their deathless attachment to freedom — their aversion to anything indecorous or soft or mean — the practical acknowledgment of the citizens of one state by the citizens of all other states — the fierceness of their roused resentment — their curiosity and welcome of novelty — their self-esteem and wonderful sympathy — their susceptibility to a slight — the air they have of persons who never knew how it felt to stand in the presence of superiors — the fluency of their speech — their delight in music, a sure symptom of manly tenderness and native elegance of soul — their good temper and open-handedness — the terrible significance of their elections, the President’s taking off his hat to them, not they to him — these too are unrhymed poetry. It awaits the gigantic and generous treatment worthy of it.
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