America – a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose.
America - Americans Quotes
If there is one word that describes our form of society in America, it may be the word – voluntary.
I’m half British, half American. My passport has an eagle with a tea bag in its beak.
For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the star that is not reached and the harvest that’s sleeping in the unplowed ground.
I hope in the future Americans are thought of as a warlike, vicious people, because I bet a lot of high schools would pick “Americans” as their mascot.
But the most profound difference between the United States and Australia was the way in which the two countries regarded natives themselves. Americans often romanticized Indians, even as they slaughtered and dispossessed them. By the mid-nineteenth century, there were calls to preserve both the American wilderness and its inhabitants before plows and guns extinguished them. […]
America is not merely a nation but a nation of nations.
Ideals are the ‘incentive payment’ of practical men. The opportunity to strive for them is the currency that has enriched America through the centuries.
In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.
I am willing to love all mankind, except an American.
