Quote by Arnold Toynbee
America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wag

America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair. – Arnold Toynbee

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We have been god-like in the planned breeding of our domesticated plants, but rabbit-like in the unplanned breeding of ourselves. – Arnold Toynbee

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Not merely a nation but a nation of nations. – Lyndon B. Johnson

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Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocuous but piquant confection and to transform their moral contradictions, or public discussion of such contradictions, into a proud decoration, such as are given for heroism on the battle field. – James Baldwin

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We Americans have no commission from God to police the world. – Benjamin Harrison, address to Congress, 1888

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