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“The joke was that President Bush only declared war when Starbucks was hit. You can mess with the U.N. all you want, but when you start interfering with the right to get caffeinated, someone has to ...”
“Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.”
“In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.”
“Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of production and trade...”
“Trumps America is not America: not todays or tomorrows, but yesterdays.Trumps America is brutal, perverse, regressive, insular and afraid. There is no hope in it; there is no light in it. It is a v...”
“In these downbeat times, we need as much hope and courage as we do vision and analysis; we must accent the best of each other even as we point out the vicious effects of our racial divide and perni...”
“I believe that we are lost here in America, but I believe we shall be found. And this belief, which mounts now to the catharsis of knowledge and conviction, is for me--and I think for all of us--no...”
“I see things in windows and I say to myself that I want them. I want them because I want to belong. I want to be liked by more people, I want to be held in higher regard than others. I want to feel...”
“What is the difference? Tell me what is the difference between you and me. We both kill for what we want," the man asks."We lived here first.”
“America: It's like Britain, only with buttons.”
“We are going to win our freedom because both the sacred heritage of our nation and the eternal will of the Almighty God are embodied in our echoing demands. So however difficult it is during this p...”
“The worst of it is that while we continue to sink deeper into the muck and mire that weve created, in the very descent itself we ignorantly declare that in reality we are rising. And until desperat...”
“My people are few. They resemble the scattering trees of a storm-swept plain...There was a time when our people covered the land as the waves of a wind-ruffled sea cover its shell-paved floor, but ...”
“America does not know the difference between money and sex. It treats sex like money because it treats sex as a medium of exchange, and it treats money like sex because it expects its money to get ...”
“...that in spite of living in a mansion an American is not above wearing a pair of secondhand pants, bought for fifty cents.”
“Being a copper I like to see the law win. I'd like to see the flashy well-dressed mugs like Eddie Mars spoiling their manicures in the rock quarry at Folsom, alongside of the poor little slum-bred ...”
“England and America owe their liberty to commerce, which created a new species of power to undermine the feudal system. But let them beware of the consequences: the tyranny of wealth is still more ...”
“Rugged indiividualism and Rugged groupism. Together they make America strong.”
“For America is composed not of two sorts of people, but of two frames of mind - the first engaged in doing what is would like to do, the second pretending that such things do not exist.”
“Anyone in any walk of life who is content with mediocrity is untrue to himself and to American tradition.”
