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America and Americans

«Very little is known about the War of 1812 because the Americans lost it.»
«Washington is full of famous men, and women they married when they were young»
«Vermont's a place where barns come painted / Red as a strong man's heart, Where stout carts and stout boys in freckles, Are highest forms of art.»
«We need to guarantee equal rights and civil rights and say that, here in America, workers have the right to organize - women have the right to choose - and justice belongs to everyone regardless of race or gender or sexual orientation.»
«Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up.»
«Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults.»
«Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.»
«Unless Americans come to realize that they are not stronger in the world because they have the bomb but weaker because of their vulnerability to atomic attack, they are not likely to conduct their policy at Lake Success [the United Nations] or in the»
«Treat each federal dollar as if it was hard earned; it was ? by a taxpayer.»
«We [Americans] are the lavishest and showiest and most luxury-loving people on the earth; and at our masthead we fly one true and honest symbol, the gaudiest flag the world has ever seen.»