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We Americans claim to be a peace-loving people. We hate bloodshed; we are opposed to violence. Yet we go into spasms of joy over the possibility of projecting dynamite bombs from flying machines upon helpless citizens. - Emma Goldman Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans--born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace. - John Fitzgerald Kennedy, in his inaugural speech, January 20, 1961 Americans never quit. - General Douglas MacArthur Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic. - Dan Rather At bottom he was probably fond of them [Americans], but he was always able to conceal it. - Mark Twain (pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens), in the "New York Times" on Dec. 10, 1899, about Thomas Carlyle
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