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“If you think the United States has stood still, who built the largest shopping center in the world?”
Richard M. Nixon
“If one cannot state a matter clearly enough so that even an intelligent twelve-year-old can understand it, one should remain within the cloistered walls of the university and laboratory until one gets a better grasp of one's subject matter”
Margaret Mead
“No matter what other nations may say about the United States, immigration is still the sincerest form of flattery.”
Clayton Cramer
“A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state.”
Isabel Paterson
“Perhaps the most revolting character that the United States ever produced was the Christian business man”
Henry Louis Mencken
“Movement is a medicine for creating change in a person's physical, emotional, and mental states.”
Carol Welch
“The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms - you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow”
Niccolo Machiavelli
“Christianity has sufficient inner strength to survive and flourish on its own. It does not need state subsidies, nor state privileges, nor state prestige. The more it obtains state support the greater it curtails human freedom.”
William Orville Douglas
“More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.”
John Kenneth Galbraith
“The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.”
Walt Whitman
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