The American Treasury, 1455-1955Clifton Fadiman Harper, 1955 - 1108 pages Anthology of quotations by Americans, or about America, classified by subject. |
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... political , economic and religious ideas , most of them unsound . For example , there is the fundamental idea of democracy — the idea that all political power should remain in the hands of the populace , that its exercise by superior ...
... political , economic and religious ideas , most of them unsound . For example , there is the fundamental idea of democracy — the idea that all political power should remain in the hands of the populace , that its exercise by superior ...
Page 351
... political label stitched with the idiocy of a Truman , rotted by the deceit of an Acheson , corrupted by the Red slime of a White . JOSEPH R. MCCARTHY , speech , Madison , 1954 • BEN HECHT ... POLITICS 351 POLITICAL SLOGANS AND PHRASES.
... political label stitched with the idiocy of a Truman , rotted by the deceit of an Acheson , corrupted by the Red slime of a White . JOSEPH R. MCCARTHY , speech , Madison , 1954 • BEN HECHT ... POLITICS 351 POLITICAL SLOGANS AND PHRASES.
Page 533
... political activities of the Supreme Court has been relieved . And the United States has been provided , in its greatest crisis since 1861 , with a chief who may have all the faults his critics impute to him , and yet has that quality ...
... political activities of the Supreme Court has been relieved . And the United States has been provided , in its greatest crisis since 1861 , with a chief who may have all the faults his critics impute to him , and yet has that quality ...
Contents
IN GENERAL | 9 |
IN PARTICULAR | 32 |
THINKING CONTINENTALLY | 65 |
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