America may be unique in being a country which has leapt from barbarism to decadence without touching civilization.
America - Americans Quotes
An author whose name is known everywhere, and whose reputation is commensurate with the boundaries of his country, if it does not transcend them, shall have the income, say, of a rising young physician, known to a few people in a subordinate city. In view of this fact, so humiliating to an author in the […]
We have no opinion on your Arab-Arab conflicts, such as your dispute with Kuwait. Secretary (of State James) Baker has directed me to emphasize the instruction, first given to Iraq in the 1960s, that the Kuwait issue is not associated with America. (1990)
When God made the oyster, he guaranteed his absolute economic and social security. He built the oyster a house, his shell, to shelter and protect him from his enemies… But when God made the Eagle, He declared, “The blue sky is the limit- build your own house!”… The Eagle, not the oyster, is the emblem […]
America – love it or leave it.
As American as apple pie.
Every time Europe looks across the Atlantic to see the American Eagle, it observes only the rear end of an ostrich.
Just what is it that America stands for? If she stands for one thing more than another it is for the sovereignty of self-governing people.
The early North American Indian made a great mistake by not having an immigration bureau.
(America is) a vain, garrulous and prosperous female of uncertain age, and still more uncertain temper, with unfounded pretensions to intellectuality and an idea of refinement of the most negative description – the Aunt Errant of Christendom.
