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“In the United States today, the Declaration of Independence hangs on schoolroom walls, but foreign policy follows Machiavelli.”
Howard Zinn
“Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife; This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand years of Middle Life”
Carolyn Wells
“All the problems we face in the United States today can be traced to an unenlightened immigration policy on the part of the American Indian”
Pat Paulsen
“Perhaps the most revolting character that the United States ever produced was the Christian business man”
Henry Louis Mencken
“So, dear friend, put fear out of your heart. This nation will survive, this state will prosper, the orderly business of life will go forward if only men can speak in whatever way given them to utter what their hearts hold -- by voice, by posted card, by letter or by press. Reason never has failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world.”
William Allen White
“I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too.”
Thomas Jefferson
“I would rather see the United States respected than loved by other nations”
Henry Cabot Lodge
“If a president of the United States ever lied to the American People, he should resign.”
Bill Clinton
“I ask you to join in a re-United States. We need to empower our people so they can take more responsibility for their own lives in a world that is ever smaller, where everyone counts. We need a new spirit of community, a sense that we are all in this together, or the American Dream will continue to wither. Our destiny is bound up with the destiny of every other American.”
“There are only two choices: A police state in which all dissent is suppressed or rigidly controlled; or a society where law is responsive to human needs. If society is to be responsive to human needs, a vast restructuring of our laws is essential.”
William Orville Douglas
