No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.
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The AIDS epidemic has rolled back a big rotting log and revealed all the squirming life underneath it, since it involves, all at once, the main themes of our existence sex, death, power, money, love, hate, disease and panic. No American phenomenon has been so compelling since the Vietnam War.
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It doesn't require any particular bravery to stand on the floor of the Senate and urge our boys in Vietnam to fight harder, and if this war mushrooms into a major conflict and a hundred thousand young Americans are killed, it won't be U. S. Senators who die. It will be American soldiers who are too young to qualify for the senate.
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The American city should be a collection of communities where every member has a right to belong. It should be a place where every man feels safe on his streets and in the house of his friends. It should be a place where each individual's dignity and self respect is strengthened by the respect and affection of his neighbors. It should be a place where each of us can find the satisfaciton and warmth which comes from being a member of the community of man. This is what man sought at the dawn of civilzation. It is what we seek today.
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The secretary of education does not work for the education establishment. The secretary works for the American people.
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What do I believe As an American I believe in generosity, in liberty, in the rights of man. These are social and political faiths that are part of me, as they are, I suppose, part of all of us. Such beliefs are easy to express. But part of me too is my relation to all life, my religion. And this is not so easy to talk about. Religious experience is highly intimate and, for me, ready words are not at hand.
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I express many absurd opinions, but I am not the first man to do it American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.
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I have every sympathy with the American who was so horrified by what he had read about the effects of smoking that he gave up reading.
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An American tragedy in which we all have played a part. (On Watergate, announcing pardon of former President Richard M Nixon)
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The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined.
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Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall to wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust
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No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him.
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It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.
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The American sign of civic progress is to tear down the familiar and erect the monstrous.
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Americans are overreachers overreaching is the most admirable of the many American excesses.
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The standardized American is largely a myth created not least by Americans themselves.
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When even one American who has done nothing wrong is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth then all Americans are in peril.
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I wish that all Americans would realize that American politics is world politics.
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Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.
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Our country was founded on a distrust of government. Our founding fathers gave power to the people to keep an eye on government. So when politicians say, Trust me, they're actually being very un American.
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Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un American act that could most easily defeat us.
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Those who misrepresent the normal experiences of life, who decry being controversial, who shun risk, are the enemies of the American way of life, whatever the piety of their vocal professions and the patriotic flavor of their platitudes.
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Now, I say to you today my friends, even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of
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The American ideal is youth handsome, empty youth.
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Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half brother, statistics.
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