Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Let us honestly state the facts. Our America has a bad name for superficiality. Great men, great nations, have not been boasters and buffoons, but perceivers of the terror of life, and have manned themselves to face it.”

cited by Richard Hofstadter in his prefactory note to Anti-Intellectualism in American Life

America has suffered a recent boaster and buffoon

we will learn if moral men and womenunfortunately of one stripe can best those who swim in and have gulped the KoolAid

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