United States of America

• "There are two Americas. One is the America of Lincoln and Adlai Stevenson; the other is the America of Teddy Roosevelt and the modern superpatriots. One is generous and humane, the other narrowly egotistical; one is self-critical, the other self-righteous; one is sensible, the other romantic; one is good-humored, the other solemn; one is inquiring, the other pontificating; one is moderate, the other filled with passionate intensity; one is judicious and the other arrogant in the use of great power."
  • J. William Fulbright, The Arrogance of Power, 1966

• "Whoever is fortunate enough to be an American citizen came into the greatest inheritance man has ever enjoyed. He has had the benefit of every heroic and intellectual effort men have made for many thousands of years, realized at last. If Americans should now turn back, submit again to slavery, it would be a betrayal so base the human race might better perish."
  • Isabel Paterson

• "The character of our enemies testifies to America's greatness."
  • James D. Miller

• "The trouble with these people is that their cities have never been bombed and their mothers have never been told to shut up."
  • Charles Bukowski

• "We do not consider ourselves threatening. Puzzled when vilified, we assume our accusers must be demented."
  • Ronald Steel