“It is ironic that America, with its history of injustice to the poor, especially the black man and the Indian, prides itself on being a Christian nation.”
“That's ridiculous." Especially the part about Christian being manly.”
“Poor Nations are hungry, and rich Nations are proud, and Pride and Hunger will ever be at Variance.”
“I'm being ironic. Don't interrupt a man in the midst of being ironic, it's not polite. There!”
“America is a country in which the velocity of history is especially great, in which each succeeding decade wipes it's immediate predecessor out, a phenomenon that had moved some observers to remark that America has no history but only an eternal present.”
“In the words of a very famous dead person, 'A nation that does not know its history is doomed to do poorly on the Scholastic Aptitude Test.”