But the most profound difference between the United States and Australia was the way in which the two countries regarded natives themselves. Americans often romanticized Indians, even as they slaughtered and dispossessed them. By the mid-nineteenth century, there were calls to preserve both the American wilderness and its inhabitants before plows and guns extinguished them. […]
America - Americans Quotes
America is not merely a nation but a nation of nations.
Ideals are the ‘incentive payment’ of practical men. The opportunity to strive for them is the currency that has enriched America through the centuries.
In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.
I am willing to love all mankind, except an American.
I would not wish to fight the United States – either militarily, politically, or culturally. For every threat, history teaches us that Americans offer not just a rejoinder, but the specter of a devastating answer of a magnitude almost inconceivable to those now chanting and threatening in the streets of the Middle East. Do they […]
The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition, and incompetence.
The age being now past of vagrant excursion and fortuitous hostility, he was under the necessity of travelling from court to court, scorned and repulsed as a wild projector, an idle promiser of kingdoms in the clouds; nor has any part of the world yet had reason to rejoice that he found, at last, reception […]
America was discovered by Amerigo Vespucci and was named after him, until people got tired of living in a place called “Vespuccia” and changed its name to “America”.
I am certain that, however great the hardships and the trials which loom ahead, our America will endure and the cause of human freedom will triumph.
