Americanism consists in utterly believing in the principles of America.
America - Americans Quotes
Only in America – do drugstores make the sick walk all the way to the back of the store to get their prescriptions while healthy people can buy cigarettes at the front of the store.
What can we do with the western coast, a coast of 3,000 miles, rockbound cheerless, uninviting, and not a harbor on it? What use have we for such a country? I will never vote one cent from the public treasury to place the Pacific Ocean one inch nearer Boston than it is now.
We want the spirit of America to be efficient; we want American character to be efficient; we want American character to display itself in what I may, perhaps, be allowed to call spiritual efficiency – clear disinterested thinking and fearless action along the right lines of thought.
America is a tune that must be sung together.
Every time Europe looks across the Atlantic to see the American Eagle, it observes only the rear end of an ostrich.
Just what is it that America stands for? If she stands for one thing more than another it is for the sovereignty of self-governing people.
The early North American Indian made a great mistake by not having an immigration bureau.
(America is) a vain, garrulous and prosperous female of uncertain age, and still more uncertain temper, with unfounded pretensions to intellectuality and an idea of refinement of the most negative description – the Aunt Errant of Christendom.
America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses.
