This peaceful transfer of authority is rare in history, yet common in our country.
America - Americans Quotes
Those who do not want to be partakers of the American spirit ought not to settle in America.
The second thing that strikes a visitor is the joyous, positive attitude to life. The smile on the faces of the people in photographs is symbolical of one of the American’s greatest assets. He is friendly, confident, optimistic, and – without envy. The European finds intercourse with Americans easy and agreeable.
I will never apologize for the United States of America – I don’t care what the facts are. (In response to the U.S. Navy warship Vincennes shooting down an Iranian commercial airliner on July 3, 1988. All 290 civilian people in the aircraft were killed. The plane was on a routine flight in a commercial […]
An English audience leans back in its seat and says ‘we’ve paid for this, so you’d better entertain us and not just muck about’. An American audience leans forward in its seat and says ‘tell me’. “
Great importance attaches to the material comforts of life, and peace, freedom from care, security are all sacrificed to them. The American lives for ambition, the future, more than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being.
My rackets are run on strictly American lines and they’re going to stay that way.
The metaphor of the melting pot is unfortunate and misleading. A more accurate analogy would be a salad bowl, for, though the salad is an entity, the lettuce can still be distinguished from the chicory, the tomatoes from the cabbage.
Oh beautiful, for smoggy skies, o’er insecticide waves of grain, and strip-mined mountain’s majesty, above the asphalt plains! America, America, man sheds his waste on thee! And hides the pines, with billboard signs, from sea to oily sea!
When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white man came, an Indian said simply, ‘Ours’.
