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- A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.
- Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967)
- Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.
- Milan Kundera (1929 - ), The Unbearable Lightness of Being
- No government ought to be without censors & where the press is free, no one ever will.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), letter to George Washington, September 9, 1792
- Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.
- George Santayana (1863 - 1952), "The German Mind: A Philosophical Diagnosis"
- It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self- conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations are in a conspiracy to under-value them.
- Henry James (1843 - 1916)
- The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor and a builder who builds best when called upon to build greatly.
- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
- Americans never quit.
- General Douglas Macarthur (1880 - 1964)
- The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
- America - a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose.
- Herbert Hoover (1874 - 1964)
- America is not merely a nation but a nation of nations.
- Lyndon B. Johnson (1908 - 1973)
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