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America and Americans

«Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of openness, of social justice and of equal opportunity.»
«You know, there are a lot of would-be governors of Texas sitting around today who never took the opportunity to get into a race when the time was right.»
«When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough.»
«Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?»
Author: Jack Kerouac (Novelist, Poet) | About: America and Americans | Keywords: shiny
«Your worst enemies are made when you ignore people. Those boys in America who shot dead classmates recently, didn't do that because they woke up with a positive self image that morning and then felt like slaughtering their friends. No, they felt igno»
«You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency»
«With much care and skill power has been broken into fragments in the American township, so that the maximum possible number of people have some concern with public affairs»
«Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.»
«You and I are stuck with the necessity of taking the worst of two evils or none at all. So-I'm taking the immature Democrat as the best of the two. Nixon is impossible.»
«You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else.»