We Americans have a chance to become someday a nation in which all racial stocks and classes can exist in their own selfhoods, but meet on a basis of respect and equality and live together, socially, economically, and politically. We can become a dynamic equilibrium, a harmony of many different elements, in which the whole […]
America - Americans Quotes
America is the greatest, freest and most decent society in existence. It is an oasis of goodness in a desert of cynicism and barbarism. This country, once an experiment unique in the world, is now the last best hope for the world.
Oh we might wish that American mass culture wasn’t compulsory, that US hegemony didn’t extends to the way we dress, what we eat and how we conduct so much of our local politics… On the other hand, we recognise the great generosity of spirit within the American people -and a democratic example that was immensely […]
O beautiful for pilgrim feet Whose stern impassion’d stress A thoroughfare for freedom beat Across the wilderness. America! America! God mend thine every flaw, Confirm thy soul in self control, Thy liberty in law!… O beautiful for patriot dream That sees beyond the years Thine alabaster cities gleam Undimmed by human tears! America! America! God […]
America is rising – with a giant’s strength. Its bones are yet but cartilages.
That the hymn has gained, in these twenty odd years, such a hold as it has upon our people, is clearly due to the fact that Americans are at heart idealists, with a fundamental faith in human brotherhood. (author of the words to “America the Beautiful”)
I got into the car and lit out to drift for a time. I had a grand ride, over mountains and rivers and out onto the prairies, crossed the Cumberland, Tennessee, Ohio, Mississippi, and Missouri Rivers. It rained, the wind blew and the sun shone. Again I got in love with America. What a land! […]
What’s right with America is a willingness to discuss what’s wrong with America.
Sometimes I think we Americans are the loneliest people in the world. To be sure, we hunger for the power of affection, the self-acceptance that gives life. It is the oldest and strongest hunger in the world. But hungering is not enough.
For a nation which has an almost evil reputation for bustle, bustle, bustle, and rush, rush, rush, we spend an enormous amount of time standing around in line in front of windows, just waiting.
