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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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"This is due partly to the fact that Americans are much better fed than Europeans, and partly to the undeveloped resources of a new country, but more largely to our climate, which acts as a constant stimulus."
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"I believe we are now in a struggle over whether or not we are going to save America."
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"I am an American citizen and feel I am entitled to the same rights as any other citizen."
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"America is not only big and rich, it is mysterious; and its capacity for the humorous or ironical concealment of its interests matches that of the legendary inscrutable Chinese."
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"Then on to all the terrific american songwriters, from Tin Pan Alley to the Beatles, from Bob Dylan to Paul Simon. Whoever wrote and sang in the song form I have appreciated."
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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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"The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf."
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"Dick Clark is an American icon. I am honored that he has entrusted me with such a role in this national tradition."
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"I'm an American before any party preference."
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"American future lies in the East. The great free markets of the Pacific Rim are the American destiny."
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"Neither facts nor pictures seem to sink into our centers of feeling any more."
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"His impact would have been of transient memory and comparatively small importance, had not that impact occurred at a time and in a way to make it supply particulars from which momentous generalizations can properly be projected."
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"In the Constitution of the American Republic there was a deliberate and very extensive and emphatic division of governmental power for the very purpose of preventing unbridled majority rule."
Power
"In a democracy there is a centralization of governmental power in a simple majority."
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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."
American
"The responsibilities which are imposed by rank and privilege and good fortune can... become very onerous indeed."
Fortune
"Newspapers write ringing editorials declaring that this is and always was a democracy."
Democracy
"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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"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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"For not only every democracy, but certainly every republic, bears within itself the seeds of its own destruction."
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