"The student now goes to college to proclaim……" — Spiro T. Agnew
"The student now goes to college to proclaim rather than to learn. A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals."
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Spiro T. Agnew
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25 Quotes by Spiro T. Agnew
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An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.
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I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort.
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The American people should be made aware of the trend toward monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the…
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Three things have been difficult to tame: the oceans, fools and women. We may soon be able to tame the…
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The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.
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Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.
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Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.
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A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by…
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Yippies, Hippies, Yahoos, Black Panthers, lions and tigers alike - I would swap the whole damn zoo for the kind…
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In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism. They have formed…
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Every time I criticize what I consider to be excesses or faults in the news business, I am accused of…
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All sport... is one of the few activities where young people can proceed along traditional avenues, where objectives are clear,…
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Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product.
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Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great.
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