Fecund America–today, Thou art all over set in births and joys! Thou groan’st with riches, thy wealth clothes thee as a swathing-garment, Thou laughest loud with ache of great possessions, A myriad-twining life like interlacing vines binds all thy vast demesne, As some huge ship freighted to water’s edge thou ridest into port, As rain […]
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So, then, to every man his chance – to every man, regardless of his birth, his shining, golden opportunity – to every man the right to live, to work, to be himself, and to become whatever thing his manhood and his vision can combine to make him – this, seeker, is the promise of America.
The name of American, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of Patriotism… It should be the highest ambition of every American to extend his views beyond himself, and to bear in mind that his conduct will not only affect himself, his country, and his immediate posterity; but […]
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
America is God’s crucible, the great melting pot where all the races of Europe are melting and reforming.
Citizens by birth or choice of a common country, that country has a right to concentrate your affections. The name of American, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of Patriotism, more than any appellation derived from local discriminations.
The crude commercialism of America, its materialising spirit… are entirely due to the country having adopted for its national hero a man who was incapable of telling a lie.
Americans like to talk about (or be told about) Democracy but, when put to the test, usually find it to be an ‘inconvenience.’ We have opted instead for an authoritarian system disguised as a Democracy. We pay through the nose for an enormous joke-of-a-government, let it push us around, and then wonder how all those […]
If ever the free institutions of America are destroyed, that event may be attributed to the omnipotence of the majority, which may at some future time urge the minorities to desperation and oblige them to have recourse to physical force. Anarchy will then be the result, but it will have been brought about by despotism.
We Americans have played the European game. America, has now become what the European “civilizing powers” had long been – a figure with its banner of the Prince of Peace in one hand and its loot-basket and its butcher-knife in the other.
