I commissioned two political experts to advise me about what I could do to oppose the re-election of President Bush.
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I agree with Dante, that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in a period of moral crisis, maintain their neutrality
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It is their mores, then, that make the Americans of the United States.. Capable of maintaining the rule of democracy.. Too much importance is attached to laws and too little to mores.. I am convinced that the luckiest of geographical circumstances and the best of laws cannot maintain a constitution in spite of mores, whereas the latter can turn even the most unfavorable circumstances.. To advantage.. If I have not succeeded in making the reader feel the importance I attach to the practical experience of the Americans, to their habits, laws, and, in a word, their mores, I have failed in the main object of my work. -Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in American
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Although Americans justify their self-interest in moral terms, their true interest is never itself moral.
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Rosa Parks sat so Martin Luther King could walk. Martin Luther King walked so Obama could run. Obama's running so we all can fly.
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Relationships are so much like the United States - they only really thrive when faced with an external threat.
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When the president during the campaign said he was against nation building, I didn't realize he meant our nation.
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With the single exception of the American Revolution, the aftermath of all revolutions from 1789 on only worsened the human condition.
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The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation.
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A guerra é a forma de Deus enÂsiÂnar geÂoÂgrafia aos ameÂriÂcaÂnos.
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Fallujah was a Guernica with no Picasso. A city of 300,000 was deprived of water, electricity, and food, emptied of most of its inhabitants who ended up parked in camps. Then came the methodical bombing and recapture of the city block by block. When soldiers occupied the hospital, The New York Times managed to justify this act on grounds that the hospital served as an enemy propaganda center by exaggerating the number of casualties. And by the way, just how many casualties were there? Nobody knows, there is no body count for Iraqis. When estimates are published, even by reputable scientific reviews, they are denounced as exaggerated. Finally, the inhabitants were allowed to return to their devastated city, by way of military checkpoints, and start to sift through the rubble, under the watchful eye of soldiers and biometric controls.
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In times of war or peace the US will gladly pay a man to fail should his heart be in it, a small shimmering proof of the American dream.
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In England I am always madam; I arrived too late to ever be a miss. In New York I have only been madamed once, by the doorman at the Carlyle Hotel.
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We all too often have socialism for the rich and rugged free market capitalism for the poor.
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No man will ever bring out of that office the reputation which carries him into it. The honeymoon would be as short in that case as in any other, and its moments of ecstasy would be ransomed by years of torment and hatred.
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Being an American is about having the right to be who you are. Sometimes that doesn't happen.
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America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.
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I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities- a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.
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In light of all the gun violence in the USA, I'd prefer my democracy unleaded.
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Here's what we're not taught [about the Declaration and Constitution]: Those words at the time they were written were blazingly, electrifyingly subversive. If you understand them truly now, they still are. You are not taught - and it is a disgrace that you aren't - that these men and women were radicals for liberty; that they had a vision of equality that was a slap in the face of what the rest of their world understood to be the unchanging, God-given order of nations; and that they were willing to die to make that desperate vision into a reality for people like us, whom they would never live to see.
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How can a nation be called great if its bread tastes like kleenex?
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Captain Smek himself appeared on television for an official speech to humankind. [..] 'Noble Savages of Earth,' he said. 'Long time we have tried to live together in peace.' (It had been five months.) 'Long time have the Boov suffered under the hostileness and intolerableness of you people. With sad hearts I now concede that Boov and humans will never to exist as one.' I remember being really excited at this point. Could I possibly be hearing right? Were the Boov about to leave? I was so stupid.'And so now I generously grant you Human Preserves - gifts of land that will be for humans forever, never to be taken away again, now.' [..] So that's when we Americans were given Florida. One state for three hundred million people. There were going to be some serious lines for the bathrooms.
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It is sobering to reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.
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Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love but to use violence to get what they want.
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The US is the most wretchedly villainous state of all times. Anyone aware of global issues can easily imagine how vast the hatred for the United States - a corrupted, swollen, paralysing and suffocating political entity - must be across the Third World - and among the thinking minority of the West too.
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