Every time Europe looks across the Atlantic to see the American Eagle, it observes only the rear end of an ostrich.
America - Americans Quotes
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.
America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses.
The fault in aliens is that those easiest to exploit are the hardest to assimilate.
I desired as many as could to join together in fasting and prayer, that God would restore the spirit of love and of a sound mind to the poor deluded rebels in America.
The interesting and inspiring thing about America is that she asks nothing for herself except what she has a right to ask for humanity itself.
How much longer are we going to think it is necessary to be ‘American’ before or in contradistinction to being cultivated, being humane and having the same intellectual discipline as other civilised countries? It is really too easy, a disguise for our short-comings, to dress them up as a form of patriotism.
America is at that awkward stage. It’s too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards.
