America is not a young land: it is old and dirty and evil before the settlers, before the Indians. The evil is there waiting.
America - Americans Quotes
She has abstained from interference in the concerns of others, even when conflict has been for principles to which she clings, as to the last vital drop that visits the heart. She has seen that probably for centuries to come, all the contests of that Aceldama the European world, will be contests of inveterate power, […]
America is the country where you buy a lifetime supply of aspirin for one dollar and use it up in two weeks.
The pull to cut loose, to reinvent ourselves, to shake off the past, and to want instant gratification, sexual, material, spiritual, is something most of us have felt. That is why ‘America’, the ideal, expressed in Hollywood movies, rock music, advertising and other pop culture, is so attractive, so sexy and, to some, so deeply […]
The nation that refuses to dismantle its 7000 nuclear warheads, that, instead is fast-tracking new tactical nuclear weapons for use in the field, a country that now warns the world that it will attack nations and organizations not in retaliation but preemptively, has no precedence in human history. Here is arrogance, triumphalism, hubris on an […]
Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game – and do it by watching first some high school or small-town teams.
Just as a strong America means a safer world, we have learned that a safer world means a stronger America.
Oh we might wish that American mass culture wasn’t compulsory, that US hegemony didn’t extends to the way we dress, what we eat and how we conduct so much of our local politics… On the other hand, we recognise the great generosity of spirit within the American people -and a democratic example that was immensely […]
O beautiful for pilgrim feet Whose stern impassion’d stress A thoroughfare for freedom beat Across the wilderness. America! America! God mend thine every flaw, Confirm thy soul in self control, Thy liberty in law!… O beautiful for patriot dream That sees beyond the years Thine alabaster cities gleam Undimmed by human tears! America! America! God […]
America is rising – with a giant’s strength. Its bones are yet but cartilages.
