America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair.
America - Americans Quotes
Until the moment of his (Andrew Carnegie) death, he had remained to millions of his countrymen their prize showpiece of what they liked to think was the real essence of the American experience – the Americanized immigrant, the rugged individual, the self-made man, the Horatio Alger hero, the beneficient philanthropist, the missionary of secular causes, […]
Governments show thus how successfully men can be imposed upon, even impose on themselves, for their own advantage. It is excellent, we must all allow. Yet this government never of itself furthered any enterprise, but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way. It does not keep the country free. It does […]
In the number of lives taken and lands laid waste America’s score is unhappily far higher than any other country’s since the end of World War Two.
There are four things, which, I humbly conceive, are essential to the well-being, I may even venture to say, to the existence of the United States… 1st. An indissoluble Union of the States under one Federal Head. 2nd. A sacred regard to Public Justice. 3rd. The adoption of a proper Peace Establishment, and 4th. The […]
Nothing is more annoying in the ordinary intercourse of life than this irritable patriotism of the Americans. A foreigner will gladly agree to praise much in their country, but he would like to be allowed to criticise something, and that is absolutely refused.
I was thinking today that nature intended me for an American rather than an Englishman. I think I should have made a better American yet I hold it higher to be a bad Englishman, than a good American, as I am not.
I now make it my earnest prayer, that God would have you, and the State over which you preside, in his holy protection, that he would incline the hearts of the Citizens to cultivate a spirit of subordination and obedience to Government, to entertain a brotherly affection and love for one another, for their fellow […]
Whilst I was in America, a witness, who happened to be called at the assizes of the county of Chester (State of New York), declared that he did not believe in the existence of God, or in the immortality of the soul. The judge refused to admit his evidence, on the ground that the witness […]
An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things because they haven’t been done before.
