We couldn’t buy them (Philippines) off the real owners, who wouldn’t sell; we had to buy them off somebody, to try to cover up the obtrusive fact that the Administration’s seizure of them was theft. Let Europe sneer at the juvenility of the trick if she likes, it is nothing to us; it is not […]
America - Americans Quotes
America is much more than a geographical fact. It is a political and moral fact – the first community in which men set out in principle to institutionalize freedom, responsible government, and human equality.
Every religion is to be found in juxtaposition to a political opinion which is connected with it by affinity. If the human mind be left to follow its own bent, it will regulate the temporal and spiritual institutions of society upon one uniform principle; and man will endeavor, if I may use the expression to […]
America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.
The most American thing about America is the free common school system.
Here and there in the midst of American society you meet with men full of a fanatical and almost wild spiritualism, which hardly exists in Europe. From time to time strange sects arise which endeavor to strike out extraordinary paths to eternal happiness. Religious insanity is very common in the United States.
Americans believe that freedom was their invention. They have been known to send peace-corps troops to Athens to teach the Greeks the meaning of democracy.
There is a New America every morning when we wake up. It is upon us whether we will it or not.
Since the first settlement of the British colonies, the number of inhabitants has about doubled every twenty-two years. I perceive no causes which are likely to check this progressive increase of the Anglo-American population for the next hundred years; and before that space of time has elapsed, I believe that the territories and dependencies of […]
At times the United States are about as elegant as an elephant dancing on its toes.
