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"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
"Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages."	Henry Louis Mencken
"The American ideal is youth -- handsome, empty youth."	Henry Miller
"America: Where a man can say what he thinks, if he isn't afraid of his wife, his boss, his customer, his neighbors, or the government."	Joe Moore
"The real 196s 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
"The big majority of Americans, who are comparatively well off, have developed an ability to have enclaves of people living in the greatest misery without almost noticing them."	(Karl) Gunnar Myrdal
"The big majority of Americans, who are comparatively well off, have developed an ability to have enclaves of people living in the greatest misery without almost noticing them."	(Karl) Gunnar Myrdal
"The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make us wonder at the possibility that there may be something to them -which- we are missing."	Gamal Abdel Nasser
"My telephone calls and meetings and decisions were now parts of a prescribed ritual aimed at making peace with the past; his calls, his meetings and his decisions were already the ones that would shape America's future." (On transfer of power to Gerald R Ford)"	Richard Milhouse Nixon
"I let the American people down."	Richard Milhouse Nixon
"No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now."	Richard Milhouse Nixon
"I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is opposed to every instinct in my body. But as president I must put the interests of America first ... Therefore, I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow."	Richard Milhouse Nixon
"Tonight-to you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans-I ask for your support." (On his Vietnam War policy)"	Richard Milhouse Nixon
"The 1976 Bicentennial is not going to be invented in Washington, printed in triplicate by the Government Printing Office [and] mailed to you by the United States Postal Service."	Richard Milhouse Nixon
"If we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be impoverished." (Proposal to reform welfare programs)"	Richard Milhouse Nixon
"As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to ... the American people: Your steadfastness in supporting our insistence on peace with honor has made peace with honor possible." (On the Vietnam War)"	Richard Milhouse Nixon
"You don't have to be old in America to say of a world you lived in, 'That world is gone.'"	Peggy Noonan
"America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between."	Oscar Wilde
"We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven. We have been preserved, these many years, in peace and prosperity. We have grown in numbers, wealth and power, as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us!"	Abraham Lincoln
"Has it [popular sovereignty] not got down as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by boiling the shadow of a pigeon that had starved to death?"	Abraham Lincoln
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