America
"Peace Through Strength" is the title of a book about a defense plan by Bernard Baruch, a former World War II adviser to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, published by Farrar, Straus and Young in 1952. During the 1964 American Presidential campaign, the Republican party spent about five million dollars on "peace through strength" TV spots. For supporters of the MX missile in the 1970s, the missile symbolized "peace through strength."
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Famous quotes containing the word america:
“That great America on the other side of the sphere, Australia.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“For America is a land of Commies and Prohibitionists but Anne does not see it. Anne is locked in. The Trotskyites don’t see her. The Republicans have never tweaked her chin for she is not there.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“In America there are two classes of travel—first class, and with children. Travelling with children corresponds roughly to travelling third-class in Bulgaria. They tell me there is nothing lower in the world than third-class Bulgarian travel.”
—Robert Benchley (1889–1945)