America may be unique in being a country which has leapt from barbarism to decadence without touching civilization.
America - Americans Quotes
An author whose name is known everywhere, and whose reputation is commensurate with the boundaries of his country, if it does not transcend them, shall have the income, say, of a rising young physician, known to a few people in a subordinate city. In view of this fact, so humiliating to an author in the […]
We have no opinion on your Arab-Arab conflicts, such as your dispute with Kuwait. Secretary (of State James) Baker has directed me to emphasize the instruction, first given to Iraq in the 1960s, that the Kuwait issue is not associated with America. (1990)
When God made the oyster, he guaranteed his absolute economic and social security. He built the oyster a house, his shell, to shelter and protect him from his enemies… But when God made the Eagle, He declared, “The blue sky is the limit- build your own house!”… The Eagle, not the oyster, is the emblem […]
America – love it or leave it.
As American as apple pie.
I desired as many as could to join together in fasting and prayer, that God would restore the spirit of love and of a sound mind to the poor deluded rebels in America.
The interesting and inspiring thing about America is that she asks nothing for herself except what she has a right to ask for humanity itself.
How much longer are we going to think it is necessary to be ‘American’ before or in contradistinction to being cultivated, being humane and having the same intellectual discipline as other civilised countries? It is really too easy, a disguise for our short-comings, to dress them up as a form of patriotism.
America is at that awkward stage. It’s too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards.
