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 […]
America - Americans Quotes
In his lifetime van Gogh painted 486 paintings. Oddly enough, 8975 of them are to be found in the United States.
The American mythology abounds in legends, some grounded in historical truth, some are the product of our wishful thinking. Among the legends is the belief that America has always acted benevolently, unselfishly, nobly in the world community. That legend never was an unqualified truth, but there was truth in it. There has been much less […]
Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans – born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic and a killer.
The point is this: when the chips are down, when the stakes are high, Americans go back to their imagined community of ‘visible saints.’ They start talking about grace and consecration and sanctification, language found nowhere in the Constitution or even in the Declaration of Independence. It is biblical, prophetic language, the language of sermons […]
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.
America is the only country ever founded on the printed word.
And we must face the fact that the United States is neither omnipotent and omniscient – that we are only 6 percent of the world’s population -that we cannot impose our will on the other 94 percent of mankind -that we cannot right every wrong or reverse every adversity -and that there cannot be an […]
