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.
America - Americans Quotes
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.
The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.
America – It is a fabulous country, the only fabulous country; it is the only place where miracles not only happen, but where they happen all the time.
I shall use America and democracy as convertible terms.
I believe that we are lost here in America, but I believe we shall be found. And this belief, which mounts now to the catharsis of knowledge and conviction, is for me – and I think for all of us – not only our own hope, but America’s everlasting, living dream.
These states are the amplest poem, Here is not merely a nation but a teeming Nation of nations, Here the doings of men correspond with the broadcast doings of the day and night, Here is what moves in magnificent masses careless of particulars… Here the flowing trains, here the crowds, equality, diversity, the soul loves.
Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America – that we are fixed and certain only when we are in movement.
