This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.
America - Americans Quotes
America is a young country with an old mentality.
For centuries America and Americans have been the target for opinions – Asian, African, and European – only these opinions have been called criticism, observation, or, God help us, evaluation. Unfortunately, Americans have allowed these foreign opinions the value set on them by their authors… This essay is not an attempt to answer or refute […]
From the very beginning our people have markedly combined practical capacity for affairs with power of devotion to an ideal. The lack of either capacity would have rendered the other of small value.
America is the greatest of opportunities and the worst of influences.
I have lived and traveled in foreign countries where my blood lines of Scottish-Irish, English, and German are common. Let us say that my shoes and hat were made in England, my clothing in Italy cut from British cloth, my shirts and ties in France or Italy, my raincoat in Scotland. In addition, I have […]
There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism… Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all. This is just as true of the man who puts ‘native’ before the hyphen as of the man who […]
I confidently trust that the American people will prove themselves… too wise not to detect the false pride or the dangerous ambitions or the selfish schemes which so often hide themselves under that deceptive cry of mock patriotism: ‘Our country, right or wrong!’ They will not fail to recognize that our dignity, our free institutions […]
The American look is not limited to people of Caucasian ancestry. In northern California, where I grew up, there was a large Japanese population, many of whom I knew well. The father and mother would be short, square, wide in the hip, and bowlegged, their heads round, the skin quite dark, the eyes almond with […]
We can have no “50-50” allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all.
