A
people who are still, as it were, but in the
gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of
manhood.
-- Edmund Burke
1729-1797, British
Political Writer, Statesman
America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream.
The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe
the dream out of existence. The dream is a
spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a
control system set up by the non-dreamers.
-- William S.
Burroughs
1914-1997, American
Writer
America is not a young land: it is old and dirty and
evil before the settlers, before the Indians. The
evil is there waiting.
-- William S.
Burroughs
1914-1997, American
Writer
America is the best half-educated country in the
world.
-- Nicholas Butler
1862-1947, American
Educationist
