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The achieved West had given the United States something that no people had ever had before, an internal, domestic empire.

Bernard De Voto

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De Voto, Bernard. The Year of Decision: 1846. Little, Brown and Company, 1943, ch. 17.

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The common sense of mankind demands that law shall not stop with the punishment of petty crimes by little people. It must also reach men who posses themselves of great power and make deliberate and concerted use of it to set in motion evils which leave no home in the world untouched.

Robert H. Jackson

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Jackson, Robert H. "Opening Statement before the International Military Tribunal." 21 Nov. 1945, International Military Tribunal, Palace of Justice, Nuremberg, Germany.

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Man's nature, his passions and anxieties, are a cultural product; as a matter of fact, man himself is the most important creation and achievement of the continuous human effort, the record of which we call history.

Erich Fromm

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Fromm, Erich. Escape from Freedom. Farrar & Rinehart, 1941, ch. 1.

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The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.

E.M. Forster (Edward Morgan Forster)

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Forster, E.M. "A Book that Influenced Me," Two Cheers for Democracy. Hogarth Press, 1951. Originally published in 1944, publisher unknown.

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The main element of any United States policy toward the Soviet Union must be that of a long-term, patient but firm and vigilant containment of Russian expansive tendencies.

George F. Kennan

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Kennan, George Frost [published as "X"]. "The Sources of Soviet Conduct." Foreign Affairs, July 1947.

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It's good to be just plain happy; it's a little better to know that you're happy; but to understand that you're happy and to know why and how... And still be happy, be happy in the being and the knowing, well that is beyond happiness, that is bliss.

Henry Miller

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Miller, Henry. The Colossus of Maroussi. Colt Press, 1941, pt. 1.

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The nature of the breakdowns of civilizations can be summed up in three points: a failure of creative power in the minority, an answering withdrawal of mimesis on the part of the majority and a consequent loss of social unity in the society as a whole.

Arnold J. Toynbee

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Toynbee, Arnold J. Quoted in A Study of History: Abridgement of Volumes I-VI, written by D.C. Somervell. Oxford University Press, 1948, vol. 4.

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Freedom is an indivisible word. If we want to enjoy it, and fight for it, we must be prepared to extend it to everyone, whether they are rich or poor, whether they agree with us or not, no matter what their race or the color of their skin.

Wendell Willkie

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Willkie, Wendell Lewis. One World. Simon & Schuster, 1943, ch. 13.

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Yeah, there's a lot of bad 'isms' floatin' around this world, but one of the worst is commercialism. Make a buck, make a buck. Even in Brooklyn it's the same. Don't care what Christmas stands for, just make a buck, make a buck.

Miracle on 34th Street

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Miracle on 34th Street. Directed by George Seaton, 20th Century Fox, 1947.

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The world of the 20th century, if it is to come to life in any nobility of health and vigor, must be to a significant degree an Amirian century.

Henry Luce

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Luce, Henry. "The American Century." Life Magazine, Feb. 1941.

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The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.

Omar Bradley

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Bradley, Omar. "Armistice Day Speech, November 10, 1948." The Collected Writings of General Omar N. Bradley. Vol. 1, U. S. Government Printing Office, 1967. Originally a speech at an Armistice Day Celebration. 10 Nov. 1948, Boston Chamber of Commerence, Boston, MA, USA.

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The policy is obliteration, openly acknowledged. This is not a justifiable act of war.

George Bell

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On the Allied policy of widspread bombing of Berlin and other German cities in 1944.

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Bell, George. "Speech Opposing Area Bombing." House of Lords meeting. 9 Feb. 1944, Westminster, London, England, UK.

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It may be that there is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.

Edmund Wilson

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Wilson, Edmund. "The Princess with the Golden Hair." Memoirs of Hecate County. Doubleday, 1946.

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You see, Mrs. Walker, this is quite an opportunity for me. For the past 50 years or so I've been getting more and more worried about Christmas. Seems we're all so busy trying to beat the other fellow in making things go faster and look shinier and cost less that Christmas and I are sort of getting lost in the shuffle.

Kris Kringle

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Miracle on 34th Street. Directed by George Seaton, 20th Century Fox, 1947.

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I'm wild again,
Beguiled again,
A simpering, whimpering child again-
Bewitched, bothered and bewildered am I.

Lorenz Milton Hart

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Hart, Lorenz. "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered." Pal Joey. Composed by Richard Rodgers. 25 Dec. 1940, Ethel Barrymore Theatre, New York City, New York, USA.

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The treatment of the Negro is America's greatest and most conspicuous scandal.

Gunnar Myrdal

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Myrdal, Gunnar. An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy. Vol. 2, Harper & Brothers, 1944, ch. 45, sect. 9.

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If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt.

G.M. Trevelyan

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Trevelyan, George Macaulay. English Social History: A Survey of Six Centuries Chaucer to Queen Victoria. Longmans, Green and Company, 1942, ch. 8.

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If the dreams of any so-called normal man were exposed... There would be no more gravity and dignity left for mankind.

Vera Caspary

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Caspary, Vera. Laura. Houghton Mifflin, 1943, ch. 2. Originally published in Colliers, Oct. 1942 - Nov. 1942.

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True, we build no bridges. We raise no towers. We construct no engines. We paint no pictures-unless as amateurs for our own principal amusement. There is little of all that we do which the eye of man can see. But we smooth our difficulties; we relieve stress; we correct mistakes; we take up other men's burdens and by our efforts we make possible the peaceful life of men in a peaceful state.

John W. Davis

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On lawyers.

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Davis, John W. Address in New York. 16 Mar. 1946, New York, NY, USA.

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We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.

Aldo Leopold

A Sand County Almanac

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Leopold, Aldo. A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There. Oxford University Press, 1949, foreword.

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