"It was under Wilson, of course, that the first huge parts of the Marxist program, such as the progressive income tax, were incorporated into the American system."

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"It was under Wilson, of course, that the first huge parts of the Marxist program, such as the progressive income tax, were incorporated into the American system."

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"Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are."

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"So in our pride we ordered for breakfast an omelet, toast and coffee and what has just arrived is a tomato salad with onions, a dish of pickles, a big slice of watermelon and two bottles of cream soda."

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"All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value."

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"What are you going to do to preserve a tradition that is the peculiar and unique culture that Judaism inculcates? The American Jewish community is not going to survive by lining up against its common enemy."

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"The American invasion did not succeed in Vietnam, and will never succeed in Iraq."

Mohammed Aldouri, Iraqi Politician

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"The only difference between the Bel Air of the '90s and the Bel Air of my childhood is that now the nannies are Latina instead of British, and the cars European instead of American."

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"American shows don't always translate, but this one has and speaking for myself I'm quite glad for it."

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"Before, we may have taken part in it without even thinking it was American Jewish, but in this case, I think, you have now perhaps pointed us in a direction of a new interest in this repertoire."

Neville Marriner, English Musician

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"I was on TV for almost sixteen weeks during American Idol. It's at the point now where it's old."

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"There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America."

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"For in the first place the American people could not have been swept too fast and too far in this movement without enough alarms being sounded to be heard and heeded."

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"In the best days of our republic Americans were fiercely proud of the fact that rich and poor met on such equal terms in so many ways, and without the slightest trace of hostility."

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"Newspapers write ringing editorials declaring that this is and always was a democracy."

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"The responsibilities which are imposed by rank and privilege and good fortune can... become very onerous indeed."

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"In summary, the Romans were opposed to tyranny in any form; and the feature of government to which they gave the most thought was an elaborate system of checks and balances."

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"The American Republic was bound - is still bound - to follow in the centuries to come the same course to destruction as did Rome."

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"In our Constitution governmental power is divided among three separate branches of the national government, three separate branches of State governments, and the peoples of the several States."

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"And it was under Wilson that the first great propaganda slogan was coined and emblazoned everywhere, to make Americans start thinking favorably of democracies and forget that we had a republic."

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