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"The social and industrial structure of America is founded upon an enlightened citizenship."
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"Not a lot of conservatives on this list. Are more liberals than conservatives screwing up America?"

"I'm tired and nervous and I'm in America. Here you don't know that you live."

"Elvis' disappearing body is like a flashing event horizon at the edge of the black hole that is America today."

"Historically, America has answered to a higher authority."

"America is ready for intelligent talk. I am ready to bring some humanity to TV."

"In America everything's about who's number one today."

"If I turn on the television, am I to believe that that is America? I'm sorry, I don't believe that's America."

"America wasn't founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damned well pleased."
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"And one cannot discharge the duty of loyalty without the patient and an open minded study of the institution that marked the country and defined its character."

"Thus, only in a hopeful and confident temper, in a proud and constructive spirit, will we rescue the present and safeguard the future of our beloved country."

"But we must not, if we are loyal, disperse our energies in a partisan warfare that is waged without regard to its consequences to the well being, security, or honor of the country."

"I am deeply concerned with the diminution of the teaching strength of the country as a result of the disproportionately low salaries that are paid to teachers throughout the country."
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