"Frank Capra, Hollywood's Horatio Alger, lights with more……" — Manny Farber

"Frank Capra, Hollywood's Horatio Alger, lights with more cinematic know-how and zeal than any other director to convince movie audiences that American life is exactly like the 'Saturday Evening Post' covers of Norman Rockwell. 'It's A Wonderful Life,' the latest example of Capracorn, shows his art at a hysterical pitch."

— Manny Farber

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Nobody I know is as committed to excellence as Donald Palmisano. He symbolizes everything that is good about our country.… — Paul Galanti
Smearing good people like Lauchlin Currie [former administrative assistant to President Roosevelt], Alger Hiss and others is, I think, unforgiveable...… — Eleanor Roosevelt
The fierce ambitions of Carver Dana Andrews, son of a Baptist preacher, might well have been imagined by Horatio Alger,… — Unknown Author
The oat is the Horatio Alger of cereals, which progressed, if not from rags to riches, at least from weed… — Waverley Root
[democrats] hated Richard Nixon, and no wonder. It was Nixon who sent Alger Hiss to jail, and Nixon who waged… — David Frum
I had hundreds of books under my skin already. Not selected reading, all of it. Some of it could be… — Zora Neale Hurston
I felt like a monster reincarnation of Horatio Alger: A man on the move, and just sick enough to be… — Hunter S. Thompson
Richard M. Nixon honestly believed in his bones that an organized conspiracy of liberal media insiders had literally been plotting… — Rick Perlstein

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