“Earth's biggest country 's gut her soul,
An' risen up earth's greatest nation.”
James Russell Lowell (1819–1891) American poet, critic, editor, and diplomat
No. 7.
The Biglow Papers (1848–1866), Series II (1866)
Hannity's America (6 June 2008) http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/174546/june-19-2008/sean-hannity-loves-america
“Earth's biggest country 's gut her soul,
An' risen up earth's greatest nation.”
James Russell Lowell (1819–1891) American poet, critic, editor, and diplomat
No. 7.
The Biglow Papers (1848–1866), Series II (1866)
Ahmed Sheikh (1949) Palestinian journalist
On the Iraqi insurgency. <br class="br">Source: World Politics Watch http://www.worldpoliticswatch.com/article.aspx?id=395, 7 December 2006.
“I tend to believe that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth.”
Harold Pinter (1930–2008) playwright from England
Pinter on Pinter in The Observer (1980)
Michael Moore (1954) American filmmaker, author, social critic, and liberal activist
As quoted in Koch: Moore's propaganda film cheapens debate, polarizes nation, Ed, Koch, World Tribune, 29 June 2004 http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/WTARC/2004/guest_koch_6_28.html, <br class="br">2004
“God bless the devout Christians of this country. They are Israel's best friends on the earth.”
Ben Stein (1944) actor, writer, commentator, lawyer, teacher, humorist
"A Long Memorial Day" American Spectator (1 June 2010) http://spectator.org/archives/2010/06/01/a-long-memorial-day
Lavrentiy Beria (1899–1953) Georgian Soviet NKVD police chief under fellow Georgian and Soviet leader Stalin
Brain-Washing: A Synthesis of the Russian Textbook on Psychopolitics
Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman
Source: https://frederickdouglass.infoset.io/islandora/object/islandora%3A2333 "Negroes and the National War Effort"]
speech in Philadelphia (6 July 1863): Should the Negro Enlist in the Union Army? (1863)
Wilhelm II, German Emperor (1859–1941) German Emperor and King of Prussia
Letter to Margarethe Landgraffin von Hessen (3 November 1940), quoted in John C. G. Röhl, The Kaiser and his Court: Wilhelm II and the Government of Germany (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), p. 212
1940s
Christopher McCandless (1968–1992) American hiker and explorer
S. O. S. note http://www.christophermccandless.info/images/chris-mccandless_sos_lancastria.jpg