From the very beginning our people have markedly combined practical capacity for affairs with power of devotion to an ideal. The lack of either capacity would have rendered the other of small value.
America - Americans Quotes
America is the greatest of opportunities and the worst of influences.
I have lived and traveled in foreign countries where my blood lines of Scottish-Irish, English, and German are common. Let us say that my shoes and hat were made in England, my clothing in Italy cut from British cloth, my shirts and ties in France or Italy, my raincoat in Scotland. In addition, I have […]
There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism… Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all. This is just as true of the man who puts ‘native’ before the hyphen as of the man who […]
I confidently trust that the American people will prove themselves… too wise not to detect the false pride or the dangerous ambitions or the selfish schemes which so often hide themselves under that deceptive cry of mock patriotism: ‘Our country, right or wrong!’ They will not fail to recognize that our dignity, our free institutions […]
The American look is not limited to people of Caucasian ancestry. In northern California, where I grew up, there was a large Japanese population, many of whom I knew well. The father and mother would be short, square, wide in the hip, and bowlegged, their heads round, the skin quite dark, the eyes almond with […]
We can have no “50-50” allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all.
Americanization… did not cleanse America of its ethnic minorities, it cleansed its minorities of their ethnicity.
There’s only four things we (Americans) do better than anyone else: music, movies, microcode, and high-speed pizza delivery.
The professors of every form of hyphenated Americanism are as truly the foes of this country as if they dwelled outside its borders and made active war against it. Once it was true that this country could not endure half free and half slave. Today it is true that it can not endure half American […]
