I feel that you are justified in looking into the future with true assurance, because you have a mode of living in which we find the joy of life and the joy of work harmoniously combined. Added to this is the spirit of ambition which pervades your very being, and seems to make the day’s […]
America - Americans Quotes
It is the story of a new world that became a friend and liberator of the old. The story of a slave-holding society that became a servant of freedom. The story of a power that went into the world to protect but not possess, to defend but not to conquer. It is the American story.
I came to America tourist Third with a cheque for ten pounds and I leave plus five hundred, a wife, a mandarin coat, a set of diamond studs, a state room and bath, and a decent box for the ferret. That’s what everybody comes to America to do and I don’t think I’ve managed badly […]
Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.
This peaceful transfer of authority is rare in history, yet common in our country.
Those who do not want to be partakers of the American spirit ought not to settle in America.
The second thing that strikes a visitor is the joyous, positive attitude to life. The smile on the faces of the people in photographs is symbolical of one of the American’s greatest assets. He is friendly, confident, optimistic, and – without envy. The European finds intercourse with Americans easy and agreeable.
I will never apologize for the United States of America – I don’t care what the facts are. (In response to the U.S. Navy warship Vincennes shooting down an Iranian commercial airliner on July 3, 1988. All 290 civilian people in the aircraft were killed. The plane was on a routine flight in a commercial […]
An English audience leans back in its seat and says ‘we’ve paid for this, so you’d better entertain us and not just muck about’. An American audience leans forward in its seat and says ‘tell me’. “
Great importance attaches to the material comforts of life, and peace, freedom from care, security are all sacrificed to them. The American lives for ambition, the future, more than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being.
