Maybe we should not have humored them… (when they asked to live on reservations). Maybe we should have said, “No, come join us. Be citizens along with the rest of us.” (During a trip to Moscow, when asked about U.S. treatment of Native Americans.)
America - Americans Quotes
America is far from perfect. It has blundered through arrogance, selfishness, cynicism, and a great deal through ignorance. But without America, the history of humanity in the 20th century would have been infinitely more tragic.
I want to be American. America is the coolest place on the face of the Earth. You’ve got freedom of speech. You’ve got McDonald’s.
My fellow Americans, I’ve signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes (before he was going to make a radio broadcast, unaware that the mike was on).
At no point in my life have I ever felt as though I were American.
Our manifest destiny is to overspread the continent allotted by Providence for the free development of our yearly multiplying millions.
I got a letter from a man the other day, and I’ll share it with you. This man said you can go to live in Turkey, but you can’t become a Turk. You can go to live in Japan, but you cannot become Japanese – or Germany or France – and named all the others. […]
We’re going to become guilty, in my judgment, of being the greatest threat to the peace of world. It’s an ugly reality, and we Americans don’t like to face up to it.
Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery.
America used to have a brash, rough, leather-breeches style with a cornpone but genuine appeal. The genius of America was the pawky outsider laughing at European pretensions, the lethal wit of Twain, Bierce, Mencken, Hunter Thompson. The country wielded canny frontiersman like Davy Crockett, enjoyed the cracker-barrel shrewdness of Andrew Jackson, who figured you put […]
