These states are the amplest poem, Here is not merely a nation but a teeming Nation of nations, Here the doings of men correspond with the broadcast doings of the day and night, Here is what moves in magnificent masses careless of particulars… Here the flowing trains, here the crowds, equality, diversity, the soul loves.
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Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America – that we are fixed and certain only when we are in movement.
Fecund America–today, Thou art all over set in births and joys! Thou groan’st with riches, thy wealth clothes thee as a swathing-garment, Thou laughest loud with ache of great possessions, A myriad-twining life like interlacing vines binds all thy vast demesne, As some huge ship freighted to water’s edge thou ridest into port, As rain […]
So, then, to every man his chance – to every man, regardless of his birth, his shining, golden opportunity – to every man the right to live, to work, to be himself, and to become whatever thing his manhood and his vision can combine to make him – this, seeker, is the promise of America.
The name of American, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of Patriotism… It should be the highest ambition of every American to extend his views beyond himself, and to bear in mind that his conduct will not only affect himself, his country, and his immediate posterity; but […]
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
America is God’s crucible, the great melting pot where all the races of Europe are melting and reforming.
Citizens by birth or choice of a common country, that country has a right to concentrate your affections. The name of American, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of Patriotism, more than any appellation derived from local discriminations.
The crude commercialism of America, its materialising spirit… are entirely due to the country having adopted for its national hero a man who was incapable of telling a lie.
Americans like to talk about (or be told about) Democracy but, when put to the test, usually find it to be an ‘inconvenience.’ We have opted instead for an authoritarian system disguised as a Democracy. We pay through the nose for an enormous joke-of-a-government, let it push us around, and then wonder how all those […]
