If there is a country in the world where concord, according to common calculation, would be least expected, it is America.
America - Americans Quotes
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.
It’s time to say that America is a better place to be a Jew than Jerusalem. If there ever was a promised land, we Jewish Americans are living in it.
Our citizenship in the United States is our national character. Our citizenship in any particular state is only our local distinction. By the latter we are known at home, by the former to the world. Our great title is Americans- our inferior one varies with the place.
I imagined our leaders seizing upon this moment of unity in America, this moment when no one wanted to talk about Democrat versus Republican, white versus black, or any of the other ridiculous divisions that dominate our public discourse. I imagined our leaders going on television telling the citizens that although we all want to […]
No one likes us I don’t know why. We may not be perfect But heaven knows we try. But all around even our old friends put us down. Let’s drop the big one and see what happens. We give them money But are they grateful? No they’re spiteful And they’re hateful. They don’t respect us […]
America is a country that doesn’t know where it’s going but is determined to set a speed record getting there.
God in his great mercy has blessed America, and made this a haven for Christians and Jews alike. But we’ve gone away from our Christian heritage. And God has little obligation at the present time to spare America, because we are polluting the world with our television programs, our movies and so forth, our books. […]
The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor and a builder who builds best when called upon to build greatly.
America is neither free nor brave, but a land of tight, iron-clanking little wills, everybody trying to put it over everybody else, and a land of men absolutely devoid of the real courage of trust, trust in life’s sacred spontaneity. They can’t trust life until they can control it.
