Those who do not want to be partakers of the American spirit ought not to settle in America.
America - Americans Quotes
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.
We (Americans) cheerfully assume that in some mystic way love conquers all, that good outweighs evil in the just balances of the universe and that at the eleventh hour something gloriously triumphant will prevent the worst before it happens.
America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered.
It may be that without a vision men shall die. It is no less true that, without hard practical sense, they shall also die. Without Jefferson the new nation might have lost its soul. Without Hamilton it would assuredly have been killed in body.
America is a terrifying place and I daresay I’m no tougher than the rest, but to attempt the more difficult seems to me the only thing worth while. At least I know what I am trying to do, which most American writers don’t, which is to live deliberately without roots. I would put it like […]
Violence is as American as cherry pie.
The name America… must always exalt the just pride of the patriotism… The independence and liberty you possess are the work of joint council and joint efforts, of common dangers, sufferings and successes.
America, thou half-brother of the world; With something good and bad of every land.
The Americans are a good-natured people, kindly, helpful to one another, disposed to take a charitable view even of wrongdoers… Even a mob lynching a horse thief in the West has consideration for the criminal, and will give him a good drink of whiskey before he is strung up.
