"Europe's the mayonnaise all right, but America supplies the good old lobster."
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"America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men."
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"The government of the United States of America has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquility of Muslims."
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"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."
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"I had this odd sibling rivalry with America."
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"America is the land of wide lawns and narrow minds."
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"Everyone wants to work in America. Maybe not blockbusters or Terminator, but to have the choice."
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"The negro is indolent and a dreamer; spending his meager wage on frivolity or drink; the European has a tradition of work and saving, which has pursued him as far as this corner of America and drives him to advance himself, even independently of his own individual aspirations."
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"If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers."
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"If America would withdraw from South Korea, there could be a power struggle between such as China and Japan."
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"I despair of the Republic! Such dreariness, such whining sallow women, such utter absence of the amenities, such crass food, crass manners, crass landscape!! What a horror it is for a whole nation to be developing without the sense of beauty, and eating bananas for breakfast."
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"I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time - [...] when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness."
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"[After Communism succeeds] ...then, there will come a peace across the earth."
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"It has become more and more obvious that there is one political party in America, and that is The Business Party."
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"Yesterday, December 7, 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... We will gain the inevitable triumph so help us God."
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"But this is the great danger America faces. That we will cease to be one nation and become instead a collection of interest groups: city against suburb, region against region, individual against individual. Each seeking to satisfy private wants."
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"It’s just unconscionable that America has become so stupid."
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"If America wants concessions, she must fight for them. We must purchase our power with our blood."
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"I truly believe that one day we will get there, we will arrive. And if we do it right in America, maybe, just maybe, we can serve as a model for the rest of the world."
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"America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem."
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