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 […]
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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.
Anyone who travels to every part of the United States, as I do, becomes aware that the notion of America oppressing humanity is absurd. To a great extent, America is humanity.
The American reflex to rewrite history so they “always came out top” had become so deluded it was now dangerous. It’s a form of cultural imperialism. No matter what the situation, or where the film is supposed to be set, an American has to be central, to be seen as the good guy, or to […]
Yours is a society which cannot accept 10,000 dead in one battle.
In the 1770’s surveying the immensity and diversity of London, Dr. Samuel Johnson laid down: “Sir, a man who is tired of London is tired of life.” The saying could be rephrased today. A man who hates America hates humanity.
If you want put it in perspective, it’s like we’re the guy who ended up being the designated driver for the planet. Sure we’d love to sit back and drink ourselves into a stupor with the rest of the globe but we’re responsible for getting as many people home safe and sound as possible. Every […]
I cannot say that I am in the slightest degree impressed by your bigness, or your material resources, as such. Size is not the grandeur, and territory does not make a nation. The great issue, about which hangs true sublimity, and the terror of overhanging fate, is what are you going to do with all […]
Sons of enterprise, like these, who committed to their own swords their hopes and their lives, when they left their country, became another nation, with designs, and prospects, and interests, of their own. They looked back no more to their former home; they expected no help from those whom they had left behind; if they […]
