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"If [America] forgets where she came from, if the people lose sight of what brought them along, if she listens to the deniers and mockers, then will begin the rot and dissolution."
"In order to threaten Iran, you [America] say that you can secure the energy flow in the region. You are wrong. Beware that if you make the slightest mistake over Iran, the energy flow through this region will be seriously endangered. You will never be capable of providing energy security in this region. You are not capable and you should know this."
"We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases."
"Newspaper : A device unable to distinguish between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation."
"This tribe of black gentry work more effectually against us, than the enemy's arms. They are a hundred times more dangerous to our liberties, and the great cause we are engaged in. It is much to be lamented that each State, long ere this, has not hunted them down as pests to society, and the greatest enemies we have to the happiness of America."
"If the American Revolution had produced nothing but the Declaration of Independence, it would have been worthwhile."
"I am society’s child. This is how they made me and now I’m sayin’ what’s on my mind and they don’t want that. This is what you made me, America."
"The national Democratic leadership is going so far left, they've left America. Don't let them bury the American dream in their graveyard of gloom and envy."
"We must have a government which is not only a guarantor of public order and safety and which preserves the right of White citizens to keep and to bear arms, which is the ancient hallmark of a truly free people, but we must have government which maintains an eternal vigilance against the enemies, both internal and external, of a White America."
"We treat racism in this country like it's a style that America went through. Like flared legs and lava lamps. Oh, that crazy thing we did. We were hanging black people. We treat it like a fad instead of a disease that eradicates millions of people. You've got to get it at a lab, and study it, and see its origins, and see what it's immune to and what breaks it down."
"The people who control America today make decisions like drunkards. They do not understand what they are doing at all."
"America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up."
"Right now, America is under the gun. It's being tested and is being co-opted in a big way."
"Body and soul, Black America reveals the extreme questions of contemporary life, questions of freedom and identity: How can I be who I am?"
"I try to explain to them about the aloha spirit. And it's that spirit that I am absolutely convinced is what America is looking for right now."
"America was founded by people who believe that God is their Rock of safety."
"The trickle-down experiment that began in the Reagan years failed America's middle class. Sure, the rich are doing great. Giant corporations are doing great. Lobbyists are doing great. But we need an economy where everyone else who works hard gets a shot at doing great!"
"Racism is America's greatest disease, racism is a disease of the white man."
"Nobody saves America by sniffing cocaine. Jiggling your knees blankeyed in the rain, when it snows in your nose you catch cold in your brain."
"In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience."
