"We Americans really seem to be the only truly non-socialist economy on earth."

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“America's problem is how to free itself from the grip of it's exhausted ideas.”

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“Europeans believe in democracy - or, at least, in republican government - but they have considered the alternatives, and continue to do so, and that scandalizes Americans.”

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