Intellectually, I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
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Neither consensus nor sanity itself suggests that the United States is, or should be, the global gendarme.
The United States has to move very fast to even stand still.
Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every country.
In the United States I am commonly held suspect as a foreigner, and during the war I was variously denounced. Abroad, especially in England, I am sometimes put to the torture for my intolerable Americanism. The two views are less far apart than they seem to be. The fact is that I am superficially so […]
I look forward to a great future for America – a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.
We have all heard of Young America. He is the most current youth of the age. Some think him conceited, and arrogant; but has he not reason to entertain a rather extensive opinion of himself? Is he not the inventor and owner of the present, and sole hope of the future?
The American people, taken one with another, constitute the most timorous, sniveling, poltroonish, ignominious mob of serfs and goose-steppers ever gathered under one flag in Christendom since the end of the middle ages.
I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty.
The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples.
