Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
1876
AUTHOR:
Spiro Theodore Agnew (191896)
QUOTATION:
A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.
ATTRIBUTION:
Vice President SPIRO T. AGNEW, speech at a Republican fund-raising dinner, New Orleans, Louisiana, October 19, 1969.Collected Speeches of Spiro Agnew, p. 55 (1971).