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"I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America."
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"America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there."
"I apologize to coalition forces and all the families, detainees, the families, America and all the soldiers."
"To be black and an intellectual in America is to live in a box. On the box is a label, not of my own choosing."
"I went to America on holiday when I was 17 and, before I knew it, I'd been signed up by an agency and had these obligations I didn't understand, but which I couldn't say no to. This industry chose me. But I did choose to make it fulfilling."
"I don't cry America. I do not cry. That was a once in a lifetime event. I do not cry, do you understand? I don't cry, okay?"
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"The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality."
"The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other."
"We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects."
"There is hardly a pioneer's hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare. I remember reading the feudal drama of Henry V for the first time in a log cabin."
"There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it."
"The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens."
"I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all."
"Consider any individual at any period of his life, and you will always find him preoccupied with fresh plans to increase his comfort."
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