To the American people of 1789, their nation promised a new way of life: each individual a free man; each having the right to seek his own happiness; a republican form of government in which the people would be sovereign; and no arbitrary power over people's lives. Less than two hundred years later, almost every aspect of the dream has been lost.


Chapter II : Consciousness I: Loss Of Reality, p. 21 (See also: Hunter S. Thompson) - The Greening of America (1970)

Charles A. Reich Quotes

To the American people of 1789, their nation promised a new way of life: each individual a free man; each having the right to seek his own happiness; ...

To the American people of 1789, their nation promised a new way of life: each individual a free man; each having the right to seek his own happiness; ...

To the American people of 1789, their nation promised a new way of life: each individual a free man; each having the right to seek his own happiness; ...

To the American people of 1789, their nation promised a new way of life: each individual a free man; each having the right to seek his own happiness; ...