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"How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?"

"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."

"The whole Indian thing, I always say it's really the American holocaust. It's something we need to look at."

"The oil companies are gouging the American citizenry aggressively, relentlessly, and without any sense of conscience whatsoever."

"It's clear price gouging... The oil companies are gouging the American citizenry aggressively, relentlessly, and without any sense of conscience whatsoever."

"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."
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"I was taught by professors who had done their schooling in the 1930s. Most of them were scornful of, even hated, big business."

"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."

"I'm no politician. I'm an historian who has learned through a lifetime of studying that nothing in the world beats universal education."

"Writing is not the easiest way to make a living. Your work long hours, usually all by yourself. It is not a way to make money."

"The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future."

"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."
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