"If I wanted to destroy a nation, I would give it too much and I would have it on its knees, miserable, greedy and sick."
— John Steinbeck

January 1, 1970

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Sources

Letter to Adlai Stevenson (5 November 1959), quoted in The True Adventures of John Steinbeck, Writer: A Biography (1984), by Jackson J. Benson, p. 876