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Letter "A" » American System
«This American system of ours, call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you will, gives each and every one of us a great opportunity if we only seize it with both hands and make the most of it»
Author: Al Capone
| About:
America and Americans,
Capitalism,
Opportunity
| Keywords:
Americanism, American System, capitalism, One of Us, seize
«To care for the quarrels of the past, to identify oneself passionately with a cause that became, politically speaking, a losing cause with the birth of the modern world, is to experience a kind of straining against reality, a rebellious nonconformity that, again, is rare in America, where children are instructed in the virtues of the system they live under, as though history had achieved a happy ending in American civics.»
Author: Mary McCarthy
| Keywords:
American history, American System, civics, Happy ending, identify, instructed, modern history, modern world, nonconformity, passionately, politically, quarrels, rebellious, straining, They Live, the system
«The organization of American society is an interlocking system of semi-monopolies notoriously venal, an electorate notoriously unenlightened, misled by a mass media notoriously phony»
Author: Paul Goodman
| About:
America and Americans,
Society
| Keywords:
American System, electorate, interlocking, mass media, misled, monopolies, notoriously, phony, semi, The Organization, unenlightened, venal
«We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in the world, unless you count maybe 25 or 30 little scuzzball countries like Scotland that we could vaporize in seconds if we felt like it»
Author: Dave Barry
(Humorist, Writer)
| About:
America and Americans,
Nations
| Keywords:
Americans, American System, count, countries, felt, like it, maybe, medical, nation, Scotland, seconds, second world, system, vaporize, vaporized
«When the war closed we were challenged with a peace-time choice between the American system of rugged individualism and a European philosophy of diametrically opposed doctrines - doctrines of paternalism and state socialism»
Author: Herbert Hoover
(President)
| About:
America and Americans,
War
| Keywords:
American System, diametrically, European, paternalism, Philosophy of, rugged individualism
«The White House: I don't know whether it's the finest public housing in American or the crown jewel of the prison system»
Author: Bill Clinton
(President)
| Keywords:
American System, crown, crown jewel, finest, housing, jewel, prison house, prison system, The Crown, The Finest, The Prison, The White House, White House
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