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Americans. They came right out with things. Hitchens family lore related the tale of how once, when I was but a toddler, my parents were passing with me through an airport and ran into some Yanks. 'Real cute kid,' said these big and brash people without troubling to make a formal introduction. They insisted on photographing me and, before breaking off to resume their American lives, pressed into my dimpled fist a signed dollar bill in token of my cuteness. This story was often told (I expect that Yvonne and the Commander had been to an airport together perhaps three times in their lives) and always with a note of condescension. That was Americans for you: wanting to be friendly all right, but so loud, and inclined to flash the cash.


Christopher Hitchens


#family

Both groups [of pundits] were critics, and that is the heart of the problem. If you are a pundit, you seem so smart when you are telling the President what he did wrong… This [is] mostly BS.


Jeffrey A. Miller


#democracy-fascism #democracy-freedom #democracy-voting #democrats #elections

He was an American character, one typical of men of his generation, men who embraced the notion of freedom and individualism and the open road without always knowing its price, and whose enthusiasms could as easily lead to the cowardice of McCarthyism as to the heroics of World War II. Men who were both dangerous and promising precisely because of their fundamental innocence; men prone, in the end, to disappointment.


Barack Obama


#americans #innocence #freedom

It's one thing to affirm that God is free to do as God wills in this world. The real crunch comes in allowing God the freedom and trust to act in one's own life. John Indermark


Lynelle Clark


#mitch-alexander #survival-story #freedom

Frederick Douglass called Republicans the ‘Party of freedom and progress,’ and the first Republican president was Abraham Lincoln, the author of the Emancipation Proclamation. It was the Republicans in Congress who authored the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth amendments giving former slaves citizenship, voting rights, and due process of law. The Democrats on the other hand were the Party of Jim Crow. It was Democrats who defended the rights of slave owners. It was the Republican President Dwight Eisenhower who championed the Civil Rights Act of 1957, but it was Democrats in the Senate who filibustered the bill.


Elbert Guillory


#democrats #eisenhower #emancipation-proclamation #jim-crow #lincoln

Several professional athletes have wrongly taught many young Americans by example that the only way to succeed in sports is to take steroids.


Jim Sensenbrenner


#example #many #only #professional #professional athletes

That's my point: if you own thirty or more books, or you are reading any book at this moment, you may protest all you want, but you were born on the wrong continent.


Thomas Geoghegan


#books #europe #humor #reading #humor

Americans used to be 'citizens.' Now we are 'consumers.


Vicki Robin


#consumer #consumerism #money #life

Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.


Jacques Yves Cousteau


#become #cans #depends #essential #fluids

men who so uneasily tolerate superiors patiently suffer a master, and show themselves proud and servile at the same time.


Alexis de Tocqueville


#men






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