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Democracy is not the end point of mankind. There may be developments in many different directions in the coming centuries. Democracy has only existed for about 200 years. It started out with the American Declaration of Independence. The Americans got their ideas from the Europeans, in the main from the French, the Dutch and the British. Helmut Schmidt
Democracy Independence Out About Only Directions Point Main Developments Ideas French Got Coming Years Existed End American Dutch May Different Different Directions Declaration Centuries Mankind Many Europeans Started British
The obvious types of American fascists are dealt with on the air and in the press. These demagogues and stooges are fronts for others. Dangerous as these people may be, they are not so significant as thousands of other people who have never been mentioned. Henry A. Wallace
People Dangerous Other Others Types Air Press Significant Thousands Mentioned Never Obvious Dealt Been American May Stooges Fronts Who Fascists
To see poor people, their benefits being cut, to see pensions of Americans who have worked like my father, all their lives, and taken away, to see the rich just accumulating more and more wealth. I mean, it seems to me that there has to be a point where you have to say, 'No, this has to stop.' Henry Giroux
Me You People Benefits Wealth Father Rich Say Pensions See Seems More More And More Point Taken Like Accumulate American Just Stop Being Where Mean Poor Cut Poor People Worked Who Away Lives
For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon. Henry Kissinger
Blessed Past Other Horizon Recovered Never Beyond American Just Nations Utopia
The American foreign policy trauma of the sixties and seventies was caused by applying valid principles to unsuitable conditions. Henry Kissinger
Valid Seventies Unsuitable Policy Principles Foreign Caused Foreign Policy Conditions American Sixties American Foreign Policy Trauma Applying
The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry. Henry Kissinger
Believe Temptation Policy Foreign Foreign Policy American Psychiatry
It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd. Henry Miller
Tyranny Herd Everything Democratic Reducing American Disease Vice Which Unique Expresses Level
The average American is nothing if not patriotic. Herbert Croly
Nothing Memorial Day American Patriotic Average Average American
No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him. Herbert Hoover
School Honor More Named Him Greater Nor Affectionate Than Conferred American After Public Public School
The family I'm from, well, no one had their name on big buildings. My family were builders of a different kind. Builders in the way most American families are. They used whatever tools they had - whatever God gave them - and whatever life in America provided - and built better lives and better futures for their kids. Hillary Clinton
Life God Family Better Big Whatever Gave Tools Way Kids Kind Futures Had No-One Name Most Well Builders Buildings Built Were Provided Families America American Different American Families Them Different Kind Used Lives
I think people feel threatened by homosexuality. The problem isn't about gay people, the problem is about the attitude towards gay people. People think that all gays are Hannibal Lecters. But gay people are sons and daughters, politicians and doctors, American heroes and daughters of American heroes. Hollis Stacy
Attitude Gay People Problem Heroes Doctors Politicians Think Gays Threatened About Daughters Sons Feel Towards American Hannibal Homosexuality
Americans have been taught that their nation is civilized and humane. But, too often, U.S. actions have been uncivilized and inhumane. Howard Zinn
Nation Humane Too Civilized Uncivilized Been American Often Taught Inhumane Actions
Bond reflected that good Americans were fine people and that most of them seemed to come from Texas. Ian Fleming
Good People Fine Seemed Come Most Were Texas Reflected American Them Bond
One of the characteristics of North American culture is that you can always start again. You can always move forward, cross a border of a state or a city or a county, and move West, most of the time West. You leave behind guilt, past traditions, memories. Isabel Allende
Time You Memories Culture Guilt Past State Characteristics Border City Cross Most County Always Leave West Traditions North North American American Move Behind Move Forward American Culture Again Forward Start
The compulsion to do good is an innate American trait. Only North Americans seem to believe that they always should, may, and actually can choose somebody with whom to share their blessings. Ultimately this attitude leads to bombing people into the acceptance of gifts. Ivan Illich
Attitude Good Acceptance People Somebody Believe Gifts Seem Only Compulsion Share Leads Blessings Always Ultimately North Trait American May Should Choose Whom Actually Bombing Innate
Many observers believe that the greatest damage Russia has done to U.S. interests in recent years stems from the Kremlin's interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential race. Although there is no question that Moscow's meddling in American elections is deeply worrying, it is just one aspect of the threat Russia poses. Ivo Daalder
Meddling Believe Presidential Worrying Presidential Race One Aspect Threat Russia No Question Stems Observers Moscow Although Greatest Kremlin Years Question American Done Just Just One Race Interests Elections Aspect Interference Many Deeply Recent Damage Recent Years Poses
When it comes to the American dream, no one has a corner on the market. All of us have an equal chance to share in that dream. J. C. Watts
Corner Market Dream No-One Share Equal American American Dream Us Chance
I speak to you only as an American who happens to be an American Negro and one who is proud of that heritage. We ask for nothing special. We ask only that we be permitted to compete on an even basis, and if we are not worthy, then the competition shall, per se, eliminate us. Jackie Robinson
You Speak Competition Nothing Heritage Worthy Per Only Shall Proud Permitted American Happens Ask Then Us Special Who Even Compete Eliminate Basis
I want everybody to understand that I am an American Negro first before I am a member of any political party. Jackie Robinson
Political First Party Before Everybody Member Understand Am Political Party American Any Want
Equating brutality and despotism with leadership is not an American value. Jake Tapper
Leadership Value Despotism Brutality American
It is hard to know how many people do, but given that the people are so docile towards the rulers, nowadays, very few Americans show the passion for freedom that our forefathers had. James Bovard
Freedom People Passion Few Nowadays Our Rulers Given Had Towards Docile Know Forefathers How How Many People Very American Hard Show Many
Momentum has always counted for something, not everything, but it's always perceived as being something that matters in American politics. James Carville
Politics Matters Everything Perceived Something Counted Always American Being American Politics Momentum
I believe the job of the FBI Director is to be as transparent as possible with the American people because we work for them. James Comey
Work Director People Job Believe Possible Because American Them American People Transparent
Every year, Planned Parenthood serves three million Americans - men and women - and one in five women will receive care at a Planned Parenthood clinic in her lifetime. Jan Schakowsky
Women Care Will Men Men And Women Three Year Every Parenthood Lifetime Clinic Five American Planned Planned Parenthood Serve Her Million Receive
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