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

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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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"Actually, today I had to defend the Bush Administration in France again. They refuse to accept, because of their political ideology, that he has actually done more than any American President for Africa. But it's empirically so."

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"I like The White Stripes and I like the kinda twang American thing right now."

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"Elvis Presley, The Everly Brothers, and a lot of American artists were my greatest influences."

Gordon Waller, Scottish Musician

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"I'm very aware when I'm speaking to the English of how flat my Mid-Atlantic American voice is."

Martin C. Smith, American Journalist

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"American audiences tend to be more expressive than British ones."

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"The real 1960s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. It came to seem that Kennedy's murder opened some malign trap door in American culture, and the wild bats flapped out."

Lance Morrow, American Journalist

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

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"A poll earlier this year showed that 42 per cent of Americans believe we're in the End Times."

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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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"For, quite literally, the whole world today is looking for us to take the lead in carrying out those obligations imposed on the American people as a whole by the beautiful, compassionate and courageous principle of noblesse oblige."

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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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"The whole country is one vast insane asylum and they're letting the worst patients run the place."

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"We have seen a central government taking more and more control over public education, over communications, over transportation, over every detail of our daily lives."

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"And for well over a hundred years our politicians, statesmen, and people remembered that this was a republic, not a democracy, and knew what they meant when they made that distinction."

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"We have seen a central government promote the power of labor-union bosses, and in turn be supported by that power, until it has become entirely too much a government of and for one class, which is exactly what our Founding Fathers wanted most to prevent."

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"For not only every democracy, but certainly every republic, bears within itself the seeds of its own destruction."

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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 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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