The fact is that most Americans have no idea of what they and their country look like to the outside world. I have seen the glance that follows them: tourists in the streets of Mexico, soldiers on leave in Far Eastern cities, businessmen in Italy or Sweden. The same glance is cast on your embassies, […]
America - Americans Quotes
America is showing some signs of that fatal presumption, that over -extension of power and mission, which bought ruin to Ancient Athens, to Napoleonic France and to Nazi Germany.
This land is your land, this land is my land, From California to the New York island, From the redwood forest to the Gulf Stream waters, This land was made for you and me.
In spite of all these outward worldly signs of our national success, we are actually on the brink of our destruction, and if we do not awaken now, it will be too late. We have never been so prosperous. Yet, we have never been so secular and pagan. We are becoming both amoral and immoral. […]
Wake up, America.
God continues to lift the curtain and allow the enemies of America to give us probably what we deserve.
The people of this country have shown by the highest proofs human nature can give that whatever the path of duty and honor may lead, however steep and rugged it may be, they are ready to walk in it.
An American is English, or French, or Italian, Irish, German, Spanish, Polish, Russian or Greek. An American may also be African, Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Australian, Iranian, Asian, or Arab, or Pakistani, or Afghan. An American is Christian, or he could be Jewish, or Buddhist, or Muslim. In fact, there are more Muslims in America than […]
Those who find America an especially violent and oppressive country (“Amerika”) have apparently never read the history of England or France, Germany or Russia, Indonesia or Burundi, Turkey or Uganda.
To be an American (unlike being English or French or whatever) is precisely to imagine a destiny rather than to inherit one; since we have always been, insofar as we are Americans at all, inhabitants of myth rather than history.
