My rackets are run on strictly American lines and they’re going to stay that way.
America - Americans Quotes
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.
The name America… must always exalt the just pride of the patriotism… The independence and liberty you possess are the work of joint council and joint efforts, of common dangers, sufferings and successes.
America, thou half-brother of the world; With something good and bad of every land.
The Americans are a good-natured people, kindly, helpful to one another, disposed to take a charitable view even of wrongdoers… Even a mob lynching a horse thief in the West has consideration for the criminal, and will give him a good drink of whiskey before he is strung up.
America is a great, unwieldy body. Its progress must be slow. It is like a large fleet, sailing under convoy. The fleetest sailers (sic) must wait for the dullest and slowest. Like a Coach in six – the swiftest Horses must be slackened and the slowest quickened, that all may keep an even Pace.
Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocuous but piquant confection, and to transform their moral contradictions or public discussion of such contradictions, into a proud decoration, such as given for heroism on the battlefield.
Now, Milosevic is a tyrant and a war criminal. But does America have the right to “pulverize” a nation that never attacked the United States? Did the Founding Fathers dedicate their lives, fortunes and sacred honor to the cause of liberty, so that the republic they would create could emulate the empire they overthrew? Is […]
I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.
The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It’s over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam.
