Let every man honor and love the land of his birth and the race from which he springs and keep their memory green. If a man is going to be an American at all, let him be so without any qualifying adjectives; and if he is going to be something else, let him drop the […]
America - Americans Quotes
The average American has the attention span of a ferret on double espresso.
Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?
The United States is the world’s best hope, but if you fetter her in the interests and intrigues of Europe, you will destroy her power for good and endanger her very existence.
So in America when the sun goes down and I sit on the old broke-down river pier watching the long, long skies over New Jersey and sense all that raw land that rolls in one unbelievable huge bulge over to the West Coast, and all that road going, all the people dreaming in the immensity […]
There are those, I know, who will reply that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is. It is the American Dream.
Say, can you see, by the dawn’s early light, What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight O’er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming! And the rockets’ red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our […]
You will find the Americans much like the Greeks found the Romans: great, big, vulgar, bustling people more vigorous than we are and also more idle, with more unspoiled virtues but also more corrupt.
America is like a melting pot. The people at the bottom get burned, and the scum floats to the top.
After World War II, Americans started treating gasoline as if it were a necessary element for sustaining life, like air and water and television. We preach about capitalism and the beauty of unfettered market forces determining price – but not when it comes to gas. When it comes to gas, we need it cheap, and […]
