"A certain kind of rich man afflicted with the symptoms of moral dandyism sooner or later comes to the conclusion that it isn't enough merely to make money. He feels obliged to hold views, to espouse causes and elect Presidents, to explain to a trembling world how and why the world went wrong. The spectacle is nearly always comic."

-- Lewis H. Lapham

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“Because of my politics, people think I'm anti-American. But I was quite the reverse. What I don't like about the United States is when the government acts like an old, imperial 18th- or 19th-century European power.”

Source : Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. November 14, 2014.
“He suffered from paralysis by analysis.”
“The world owes us nothing; we owe each other the world.”
“It was how wars really ended, Dieffenbaker supposed -- not at truce tables but in cancer wards and office cafeterias and traffic jams. Wars died one tiny piece at a time, each piece something that fell like a memory, each lost like an echo that fades in winding hills. In the end even war ran up the white flag. Or so he hoped. He hoped that in the end even war surrendered.”
“I'm a facist about spoilers. I'm the biggest pain in the ***** to the marketing and promotions department. If I had my way, the commercials would be 30 seconds of black with a few words on them.”

Source : Source: www.movieweb.com
“During misfortunes, nothing aggravates our condition more, than to be esteemed deserving of them.”
“In my commencement address I gave the language and sources of the prophetic utterance made by the Prophet Joseph that the Constitution of the United States would hang by a single thread, but be saved by the elders of Israel. I hope you will read those sources so you will be well-informed as to this prophecy and be prepared to do your part in its fulfillment.”
“In America, public opinion is the leader”

Source : Frances Perkins (1934). “People at work”

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