In the 1770’s surveying the immensity and diversity of London, Dr. Samuel Johnson laid down: “Sir, a man who is tired of London is tired of life.” The saying could be rephrased today. A man who hates America hates humanity.
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If you want put it in perspective, it’s like we’re the guy who ended up being the designated driver for the planet. Sure we’d love to sit back and drink ourselves into a stupor with the rest of the globe but we’re responsible for getting as many people home safe and sound as possible. Every […]
I cannot say that I am in the slightest degree impressed by your bigness, or your material resources, as such. Size is not the grandeur, and territory does not make a nation. The great issue, about which hangs true sublimity, and the terror of overhanging fate, is what are you going to do with all […]
Sons of enterprise, like these, who committed to their own swords their hopes and their lives, when they left their country, became another nation, with designs, and prospects, and interests, of their own. They looked back no more to their former home; they expected no help from those whom they had left behind; if they […]
America is therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the World’s History shall reveal itself.
I want you to get mad about the current state of affairs. I want you to get so mad that you use your new degree and your common sense to kick America off dead center. A little righteous anger really brings out the best in the American personality. Our nation was born when 56 patriots […]
As man can be in but one place, at once, he cannot have the advantages of multiplied residence. He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade. He who goes voluntarily to America, cannot complain of losing what he leaves in Europe. He, perhaps, had a right to vote […]
I like Americans. They are so unlike Canadians. They do not take their policemen seriously. They come to Montreal to drink. Not to criticize. They claim they won the war. But they know at heart that they didn’t. They have such respect for Englishmen. They like to live abroad. They do not brag about how […]
America, as I found it, may be described as a land where the Common Man is perpetually bidding his fellow to go to hell, and at the same time doing his best to get him into heaven.
If there is anything that makes this country what I have called the crown jewel of nations, it is freedom. I believe that remains so central to our identity that the American people will never tire of it. It is the root value that makes this country comfortable for all of us.
