“We have become a nation not of citizens but of consumers.”
“Americans used to be 'citizens.' Now we are 'consumers.”
“The more profoundly we study this wonderful book [the Bible], and the more closely we observe its divine precept, the better citizens we will become and the higher will be our destiny as a nation.”
“In a republican nation, whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning becomes of first importance”
“In consumer life we become what we consume-disposable junk to be used and thrown away.”
“To all general purposes we have uniformly been one people each individual citizen everywhere enjoying the same national rights, privileges, and protection.”