France was a land, England was a people, but America, having about it stil that quality of the idea, was harder to utter – it was the graves at Shiloh and the tired, drawn, nervous faces of its great men, and the country boys dying in the Argonne for a phrase that was empty before […]
America - Americans Quotes
It takes application, a fine sense of value, and a powerful community-spirit for a people to have serious leisure, and this has not been the genius of the Americans.
We now stand ten years past the midpoint of a century that has witnessed four major wars among great nations. Three of these involved our own country. Despite these holocausts America is today the strongest, the most influential and most productive nation in the world. Understandably proud of this pre-eminence, we yet realize that America’s […]
I do not want a honeymoon with you. I want a good marriage. I want progress, and I want problem solving which requires my best efforts and also your best efforts. I have no need to learn how Congress speaks for the people. As president, I intend to listen. But I also intend to listen […]
The organization of American society is an interlocking system of semi-monopolies notoriously venal, an electorate notoriously unenlightened, misled by a mass media notoriously phony.
Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.
What’s right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity – intellect and resources – to do some thing about them.
I want to talk today about a dramatic transformation in America. It’s one that you and your families are already a part of. This transformation is a quiet one – and a good one. It is a movement that is entirely about solutions. And it is sweeping from home to home and neighbor to neighbor, […]
There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence and energy of her citizens cannot cure.
America is a mistake, a giant mistake.
