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"How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?"
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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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"America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many. This is not prophecy, but description."
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"I like contemporary American literature and I like biographies and I like jazz and I like baseball and I like writers who write about the human condition and sci-fi is just something that I happened into."
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"I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it then."
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"Let's deal with reality. The reality is that we will be reading Miranda rights to the corpse of Osama bin Laden. He will never appear in an American courtroom."
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"What America demands in her black champions is a brilliant, powerful body and a dull, bestial mind."
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"Nobody in America, in the modern generation, has read their mythology or legends."
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"Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them."
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"To be a slaveholder meant one had to regard the African American as inferior in every way."
History


"It does you no good to see the number two or number three man in the corporation-you have to get through to number one."
Man


"Eisenhower is my choice as the American of the 20th Century. Of all the men I've studied and written about, he is the brightest and the best."
Man


"Johnson had been the most powerful man in the world, yet the North Vietnamese and the Vietcong had resisted, overcome his power, broken his will."
Power


"Like their predecessors, the Presidents of today just throw up their hands."
President


"We are part of a country that outshines those that have gone before us and most of those in existence today."
Nation


"The number one secret of being a successful writer is this: marry an English major."
Success


"Washington and Jefferson were both rich Virginia planters, but they were never friends."
Friendship


"In America, Jefferson noted with approval, women knew their place."
Woman


"Eisenhower had the clearest blue eyes. He would fix them on you. In my every interview with him, he would lock his eyes on to mine and keep them there."
Eisenhower
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