Americans believe that freedom was their invention. They have been known to send peace-corps troops to Athens to teach the Greeks the meaning of democracy.
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From his own standpoint, it is beyond all question the wise thing for the immigrant to become thoroughly Americanized. Moreover, from our standpoint, we have a right to demand it. We freely extend the hand of welcome and of good fellowship to every man and woman, no matter their creed or birthplace, who comes here […]
And I dreamed I was dying, And I dreamed that my soul rose unexpectedly And looking back down at me, Smiled reassuringly, And I dreamed I was flying, And high up above my eyes could clearly see, The Statue of Liberty Sailing away to sea, And I dreamed I was flying. We come on the […]
American invents everything, but the trouble is we get tired of it the minute the new is wore off.
The American people are slow to wrath, but when their wrath is once kindled it burns like a consuming flame.
The American people never carry an umbrella. They prepare to walk in eternal sunshine.
In the field of world policy, I would dedicate this nation to the policy of the good neighbor.
Americanism is a question of principle, of purpose, of idealism, of character. It is not a matter of birthplace or creed or line of descent.
Few productive class Americans understand (yet) that they stagger under taxes five times greater than those endured by a medieval European serf. What they do understand is that the harder they work the less they have left – and the less they have to look forward to.
I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people.
