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Not a place upon earth might be so happy as America. Her situation is remote from all the wrangling world, and she has nothing to do but to trade with them.

Thomas Paine

The American Crisis

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Topic

America and the world America

Author

Thomas Paine

Source

The American Crisis

Genre

Political literature

Language

English

Time

1776 1770s 18th century

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Original Citation

Paine, Thomas. The American Crisis: Number 1. Philadelphia: Styner and Cist, 1776.

Current Citation

Paine, Thomas. "The American Crisis, Number I, December 19, 1776." Common Sense, The Crisis, & Other Writings from the American Revolution. Library of America, 2015.

All religion, however, is nothing but the fantastic reflection in men's minds of those external forces which control their daily life.

Friedrich Engels

Anti-Duhring

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Topic

Religion

Author

Friedrich Engels

Source

Anti-Duhring

Genre

Political literature Philosophical literature

Language

German

Time

1878 1870s 19th century

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Original Citation

Engels, Frederick. "Herrn Eugen Dührings Umwälzung der Wissenschaft [Herr Eugen Dühring's Revolution in Science]." Vorwärts, 1878.

Current Citation

Engels, Frederick. "Anti-During." Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: Collected Works. Vol. 25, Int Pub Co Inc, 1987, pt. 3, ch. 5.

Surely of all 'rights of man,' this right of the ignorant man to be guided by the wiser, to be, gently or forcibly, held in the true course by him, is the indisputablest.

Thomas Carlyle

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Topic

Human rights Paternalism Politics

Author

Thomas Carlyle

Source

Chartism

Genre

Political literature

Language

English

Time

1840 1840s 19th century

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Original Citation

Carlyle, Thomas. Chartism. London: James Frases, 1840, ch. 6.

Current Citation

Carlyle, Thomas. "Chartism." Thomas Carlyle: Selected Writings. Penguin Classics, 2015.

The world stood like a playing card on edge... One looked at the buildings one passed and wondered if one was to see them again.

Norman Mailer

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Topic

Cuban Missile Crisis Cold War Nuclear weapons

Speaker

Reflecting on the week of the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Author

Norman Mailer

Source

The Presidential Papers

Genre

Political literature

Language

English

Time

1963 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Mailer, Norman. "The Big Bite." The Presidential Papers. G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1963. Originally published in Esquire, Apr. 1963.

Whether ours shall continue to be a Government of laws and not of men is now for Congress and ultimately the American people.

Archibald Cox

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Topic

Watergate American politics

Author

Archibald Cox

Genre

Political literature

Language

English

Time

1973 1970s 20th century

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Citation

Cox, Archibald. Statement after being dismissed by President Richard Nixon. 20 Oct. 1973, Washington, DC, USA.

Europeans often ask, and Americans do not always explain, how it happens that this great office, the greatest in the world, unless we except the Papacy, to which any man can rise by his own merits, is not more frequently filled by great and striking men.

James Bryce

The American Commonwealth

On the American Presidency.

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Topic

American Presidency American politics

Author

James Bryce

Source

The American Commonwealth

Genre

Political literature

Language

English

Time

1888 1880s 19th century

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Citation

Bryce, James. The American Commonwealth. Vol. 1, London: Macmillan and Co., 1888, ch. 8.