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"A coalition of groups ... is waging a massive propaganda campaign against the president of the United States. ... an all-out attack. Their aim is total victory for themselves and total defeat [for him]." (On Watergate crisis)"	Gerald R. Ford
"A rioter with a Molotov cocktail in his hands is not fighting for civil rights any more than a Klansman with a sheet on his back and mask on his face. They are both more or less what the law declares them: lawbreakers, destroyers of constitutional rights and liberties and ultimately destroyers of a free America."	Lyndon Baines Johnson
"A sound American is simply one who has put out of his mind all doubts and questionings, and who accepts instantly, and as incontrovertible gospel, the whole body of official doctrine of his day, whatever it may be and no matter how often it may change. The instant he challenges it, no matter how timorously and academically, he ceases by that much to be a loyal and creditable citizen of the republic."	Henry Louis Mencken
"A world in which others controlled the course of their own development ... would be a world in which the American system would be seriously endangered."	Benjamin Cohen
"America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense ... human rights invented America."	James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr.
"America has not always been kind to its artists and scholars. Somehow the scientists always seem to get the penthouse while the arts and humanities get the basement."	Lyndon Baines Johnson
"America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people."	Gloria Steinem
"America is another name for opportunity. Our whole history appears like a last effort of divine providence on behalf of the human race."	Ralph Waldo Emerson
"America is closer to the year 2 than anywhere else on earth."	David Frost
"America is just the country that shows how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society."	Peter Kropotkin
"America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world."	George Herbert Walker Bush
"America is not like a blanket -- one piece of unbroken cloth, the same color, the same texture, the same size. America is more like a quilt -- many patches, many pieces, many colors, many sizes, all woven and held together by a common thread."	Henry M. Jackson
"America is not like a blanket-one piece of unbroken cloth, the same color, the same texture, the same size. America is more like a quilt-many patches, many pieces, many colors, many sizes, all woven and held together by a common thread."	Jesse Louis Jackson
"America is so vast that almost everything said about it is likely to be true, and the opposite is probably equally true."	James T. Farell
"America is so vast that almost everything said about it is likely to be true, and the opposite is probably equally true."	James T. Farrell
"America is the country where you buy a lifetime supply of aspirin for one dollar, and use it up in two weeks."	John Barrymore
"America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between."	Oscar Wilde
"America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization."	Georges Clemenceau
"America shudders at anything alien, and when it wants to shut its mind against any man's ideas, it calls him a foreigner."	Max Lerner
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."	Abraham Lincoln
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