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America and Americans

«The major challenge for the United States is whether it can become the first outward-looking, continental, nonimperialist power in history.»
«The New Yorker has devoted itself for 59 years not only to facts and literal accuracy but to truth. And truth begins, journalistically, with the facts.»
«The junior senator from Wisconsin, by his reckless charges, has so preyed upon the fears and hatreds and prejudices of the American people that he has started a prairie fire which neither he nor anyone else may be able to control.»
«The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.»
«The Lincoln Memorial is related to the toga and the civilization that wore it.»
«The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin's.»
«The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.»
«The impulse of the American woman to geld her husband and castrate her sons is very strong.»
«The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has. Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you don't know when it's through if you are a crook or a martyr.»
«The interesting and inspiring thing about America is that she asks nothing for herself except what she has a right to ask for humanity itself»