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“American strategic [nuclear] forces do not exist solely for the purpose of deterring a Soviet nuclear threat or attack against the U.S. itself. Instead, they are intended to support U.S. foreign policy.”

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Colin S. Gray

Colin S. Gray, born in 1943, is an individual of an unknown profession, with limited information available about his identity and life. more

“Too many Americans have twisted the sensible right to pursue happiness into the delusion that we are entitled to a guarantee of happiness. If we don't get exactly what we want, we assume someone must be violating our rights. We're no longer willing to write off some of life's disappointments to simple bad luck.”

Ifs Want Writing America Simple Rights Willing Luck Assuming Disappointment Pursue Guarantees Delusion Sensible Entitled Twisted Bad Luck

Author:Susan Jacoby

“I could think of no worse example for nations abroad, who for the first time were trying to put free electoral procedures into effect, than that of the United States wrangling over the results of our presidential election, and even suggesting that the presidency itself could be stolen by thievery at the ballot box.”

“It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate.”

Character America Desperate American Character

Book:Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts

Source: Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts

“Americans have an extraordinary love-hate relationship with the rich culture they've created. They buy, watch and read it even as they ban, block and condemn it.”

America Hate Culture Watches Rich Internet Extraordinary Block Free Speech Bans Love Hate Love Hate Relationship Extraordinary Love

Book:Virtuous Reality: How America Surrendered Discussion of Moral Values to Opportunists, Nitwits, and Blockheads Like William Bennett

Source: Virtuous Reality: How America Surrendered Discussion of Moral Values to Opportunists, Nitwits, and Blockheads Like William Bennett

“My ancestors were Puritans from England. They arrived here in 1648 in the hope of finding greater restrictions than were permissible under English law at that time.”

America Law Greater Findings England Ancestor Restriction Puritan English Law

Author:Garrison Keillor

“It would be the greatest mistake, certainly, to think that concessions mean peace. Nothing of the kind. Concessions are nothing but a new form of war.”

Thinking Kind Mean War Would Be America Form Mistake Concessions

Author:Vladimir Lenin

“In societies like the American and West European where the dynamics of energy come from freedom and where the climate and the whole ethos are those of freedom, censorship is bound to be at worst, stupid; at best, futile; and always, to some degree, inconsonant with the character of the society as a whole.”

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Author:Max Lerner

“The American's conviction that he must be able to look any man in the eye and tell him to go to hell is the very essence of the free man's way of life.”

Men Way Looks Eye Able America Hell Essence Conviction Free Man Go To Hell

Author:Walter Lippmann

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