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"The inferior complex is now extended to all Europe, save Nordics."
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"Ireland sober is Ireland stiff."
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"The drive toward economic nationalism is only part of the general revival of nationalism."
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"It's best to keep America just like that, always in the background, a sort of picture post card which you look at in a weak moment. Like that, you imagine it's always there waiting for you, unchanged, unspoiled, a big patriotic open space with cows and sheep and tenderhearted men ready to bugger everything in sight, man, woman or beast. It doesn't exist, America. It's a name you give to an abstract idea."
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"We were very happy when a South African court, which had previously ruled against us, took another look and decided that this material was not obscene and allowed it into the country."
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"I have no nationality - the best possible status for an intellectual."
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"It still surprises me when I find something in any North Carolina newspaper that isn't mad at me about something."
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"The Irish gave the bagpipes to the Scotts as a joke, but the Scotts haven't seen the joke yet."
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"There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American."
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"We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us."
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"The inferior complex is now extended to all Europe, save Nordics."
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"The inferior complex is now extended to all Europe, save Nordics."
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"I had advocated the establishment of a Negro industrial commission. I had gestured against the growth of monopoly power. I had introduced a few civil rights bills."
Power

"I had taken on the color of the climate around me and had driven back all the emotion that rose from the Brooklyn streets so that I could belong to the exclusive club of Congress."
Politics

"People were hurt, and because they were hurt, they were angry and quarreled and were jealous of one another."
People

"Roosevelt's magic lay in one facet of his personality: He knew how to take the risk. No other man in public life I knew could so readily take the challenge of the new."
Life

"The Democratic Party will never desert the freedoms of our people under the guise of pretending to protect them."
People

"Illegality will never solve the problem of political lawlessness."
Will

"On the one hand we publicly pronounce the equality of all peoples; on the other hand, in our immigration laws, we embrace in practice these very theories we abhor and verbally condemn."
Equality

"The studied, unquestioning pace of my family irritated me."
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"My grandfather, in 1848, had fled from Germany to find political freedom in the United States."
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