If I were asked to name the three influences which I thought were most dangerous to the perpetuity of American institutions, I should name corruption in business and politics alike; lawless violence; and mendacity, especially used in connection with slander. We Americans are children of the crucible. Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, […]
America - Americans Quotes
In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book? or goes to an American play? or looks at an American picture or statue? What does the world yet owe to American physicians or surgeons? What new substances have their chemists discovered? or what old ones have they analyzed? What new constellations have […]
Self-help and self-control are the essence of the American tradition.
In America everything goes and nothing matters. While in Europe nothing goes and everything matters.
Why is it, whenever a group of internationalists get together, they always decide that Uncle Sam must be the goat?
Each American embassy comes with two permanent features; a giant anti-American demonstration and a giant line for American visas. Most demonstrators spend half their time burning Old Glory and the other half waiting for green cards.
Double – no triple – our troubles and we’d still be better off than any other people on earth.
I see America spreading disaster. I see America as a black curse upon the world. I see a long night settling in and that mushroom which has poisoned the world withering at the roots.
How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be ‘American’ before being cultivated, being enlightened, being humane, and having the same intellectual discipline as other civilized countries? It is really too easy a disguise for our shortcomings to dress them up as a form of patriotism!
Maybe we should not have humored them… (when they asked to live on reservations). Maybe we should have said, “No, come join us. Be citizens along with the rest of us.” (During a trip to Moscow, when asked about U.S. treatment of Native Americans.)
