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America and Americans

«The pseudonymous perpetrator of America's only unsolved airline hijacking [is] a folk hero as shadowy as Deep Throat and as morally troublesome as Jesse James.»
«The pejorative term 'political correctness' was adapted to express disapproval of the enlargement of etiquette to cover all people, in spite of this being a principle to which all Americans claim to subscribe»
«The real 1960s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. It came to seem that Kennedy's murder opened some malign trap door in American culture, and the wild bats flapped out.»
«The problem of freedom in America is that of maintaining a competition of ideas, and you do not achieve that by silencing one brand of idea»
«The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.»
«The organization of American society is an interlocking system of semi-monopolies notoriously venal, an electorate notoriously unenlightened, misled by a mass media notoriously phony»
«The players in this drama of frustration and indignity are not commas or semicolons in a legislative thesis; they are people, human beings, citizens of the United States of America.»
«The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill.»
«The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.»
«The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government are justly considered... deeply, ...finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.»