And they tell me you are crooked and I answer: Yes, it is true I have seen the gunman kill and go free to kill again. And they tell me you are brutal and my reply is: On the faces of women and children I have seen the marks of wanton hunger. And having answered so I turn once more to those who sneer at this my city...

Within the life of the generation now in control of affairs, persuasion has become a self-conscious art and a regular organ of popular government. None of us begins to understand the consequences, but it is no daring prophecy to say that the knowledge of how to create consent will alter every political calculation and modify every political premise.

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Page 51 ... the conservation of our natural resources, though the gravest problem of to-day, is yet but part of another and greater problem to which this nation is not yet awake, but to which it will awake in time, and with which it must hereafter grapple if it is to live — the problem of national efficiency, the patriotic duty of insuring the safety and continuance of the nation. Appears in 91 books from 1904-2008

Page 3 Hegemony' is a concept which at once includes and goes beyond two powerful earlier concepts: that of 'culture' as a 'whole social process,' in which men define and shape their whole lives; and that of 'ideology... Appears in 13 books from 1981-2007

Page 78 appropriate to the material subject." And since these words of a famous philosopher are often quoted, it is necessary to labor the obvious and say that no nude, however abstract, should fail to arouse in the spectator some vestige of erotic feeling, even though it be only the faintest shadow— and if it does not do so, it is bad art and false morals. Appears in 67 books from 1939-2007

Page 15 Henry Nash Smith, Virgin Land: The American West as Symbol and Myth (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1950); and RWB Lewis, The American Adam: Innocence, Tragedy, and Tradition in the Nineteenth Century (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1955). Appears in 227 books from 1947-2008

Page 62 March 1915: 1) The first principle is absolute accuracy. Nothing must be printed which is not strictly according to fact. . . . 2) Abundance of beautiful, instructive, and artistic illustrations. 3) Everything printed in the Magazine must have permanent value. . . . 4) All personalities and notes of a trivial character are avoided. . . . 5) Nothing of a partisan or controversial character is printed. Appears in 14 books from 1948-2007

Page 63 Magazine are continually used in school rooms. 4. All personalities and notes of a trivial character are avoided. 5. Nothing of a partisan or controversial character is printed. 6. Only what is of a kindly nature is printed about any country or people, everything unpleasant or unduly critical being avoided. Appears in 22 books from 1930-2007

Page 49 To investigate and report on heredity in the human race; to devise methods of recording the values of the blood of individuals, families, peoples and races; to emphasize the value of superior blood and the menace to society of inferior blood; and to suggest methods of improving the heredity of the family, the people, or the race. Appears in 38 books from 1907-2008

Page 44 Richard Hofstadter, The Age of Reform. From Bryan to FDR (New York: Vintage Books, 1955... Appears in 206 books from 1819-2008

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