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, […]
America - Americans Quotes
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 […]
The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make us wonder at the possibility that there may be something to them we are missing.
The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind.
America is becoming a land of private greed and public squalor.
Being blunt with your feelings is very American. In this big country, I can be as brash as New York, as hedonistic as Los Angeles, as sensuous as San Francisco, as brainy as Boston, as proper as Philadelphia, as brawny as Chicago, as warm as Palm Springs, as friendly as my adopted home town of […]
If there is a country in the world where concord, according to common calculation, would be least expected, it is America.
America is not only big and rich, it is mysterious; and its capacity for the humorous or ironical concealment of its interests matches that of the legendary inscrutable Chinese.
We have about 60% of the world’s wealth but only 6.3% of its population. In this situation we cannot fail to be the object of envy and resentment. Our real task in the coming period is to devise a pattern of relationships which will permit us to maintain this position of disparity. We need not […]
In his lifetime van Gogh painted 486 paintings. Oddly enough, 8975 of them are to be found in the United States.
