"Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us?"

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"Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us?"

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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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"The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf."

Will Rogers, American Actor

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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."

Carl Sagan, American Scientist

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"America is the only country capable of producing national movies: its culture has become a global culture."

Jean-Jacques Annaud, French Director

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"Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them."

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"Americans are so dedicated to their jobs."

Jamelia, English Musician

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"The standardized American is largely a myth created not least by Americans themselves."

Irwin Edman, American Philosopher

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"I'm a great believer in the competitive system, and think that competition will bring us greater innovation and put American industry in information ahead of everyone also."

Harold H. Greene, American Judge

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"It would not be fair to the critics of Rotary, who include some of the most brilliant of the British and American writers, to charge them with prejudice."

Paul Harris, American Entertainer

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"The critical point is that the Constitution places the right of silence beyond the reach of government."

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"The association promotes a way of life, not causes; a harmony in living, not political faiths; a bilateral loyalty, not commercial or social projects. Yet it is an association for as noble a purpose as any involved in any prior decisions."

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"At the constitutional level where we work, 90 percent of any decision is emotional. The rational part of us supplies the reasons for supporting our predilections."

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"Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred."

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"We do not sit as a superlegislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation."

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"The right to revolt has sources deep in our history."

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"Tell the FBI that the kidnappers should pick out a judge that Nixon wants back."

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"We are a religious people whose institutions presuppose a Supreme Being."

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"It seemed to me that I had barely reached the Court when people were trying to get me off."

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"The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedoms."

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