If she (America) forgets where she came from, if the people lose sight of what brought them along, if she listens to the deniers and mockers, then will begin the rot and dissolution.
America - Americans Quotes
American cities are like badger holes ringed with trash.
This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.
America is a young country with an old mentality.
For centuries America and Americans have been the target for opinions – Asian, African, and European – only these opinions have been called criticism, observation, or, God help us, evaluation. Unfortunately, Americans have allowed these foreign opinions the value set on them by their authors… This essay is not an attempt to answer or refute […]
We’re going to become guilty, in my judgment, of being the greatest threat to the peace of world. It’s an ugly reality, and we Americans don’t like to face up to it.
Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery.
America used to have a brash, rough, leather-breeches style with a cornpone but genuine appeal. The genius of America was the pawky outsider laughing at European pretensions, the lethal wit of Twain, Bierce, Mencken, Hunter Thompson. The country wielded canny frontiersman like Davy Crockett, enjoyed the cracker-barrel shrewdness of Andrew Jackson, who figured you put […]
The big majority of Americans, who are comparatively well off, have developed an ability to have enclaves of people living in the greatest misery without almost noticing them.
I believe in the United States of America as a government of the people, by the people, for the people; whose just powers are derived from the consent of the governed; a democracy in a republic; a sovereign nation of many sovereign states; a perfect union, one and inseparable; established upon those principles of freedom, […]
