My fellow Americans, I’ve signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes (before he was going to make a radio broadcast, unaware that the mike was on).
America - Americans Quotes
At no point in my life have I ever felt as though I were American.
Our manifest destiny is to overspread the continent allotted by Providence for the free development of our yearly multiplying millions.
I got a letter from a man the other day, and I’ll share it with you. This man said you can go to live in Turkey, but you can’t become a Turk. You can go to live in Japan, but you cannot become Japanese – or Germany or France – and named all the others. […]
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, […]
We were then in a condition which secured to us the respect and envy of the civilized world. The quarrels which other nations have, we did not have. The sun did set on our dominions, and our drum-beat did not encircle the world with our martial airs. Our guns were not likely to be called […]
