There are four things, which, I humbly conceive, are essential to the well-being, I may even venture to say, to the existence of the United States… 1st. An indissoluble Union of the States under one Federal Head. 2nd. A sacred regard to Public Justice. 3rd. The adoption of a proper Peace Establishment, and 4th. The […]
America - Americans Quotes
Nothing is more annoying in the ordinary intercourse of life than this irritable patriotism of the Americans. A foreigner will gladly agree to praise much in their country, but he would like to be allowed to criticise something, and that is absolutely refused.
I was thinking today that nature intended me for an American rather than an Englishman. I think I should have made a better American yet I hold it higher to be a bad Englishman, than a good American, as I am not.
I now make it my earnest prayer, that God would have you, and the State over which you preside, in his holy protection, that he would incline the hearts of the Citizens to cultivate a spirit of subordination and obedience to Government, to entertain a brotherly affection and love for one another, for their fellow […]
Whilst I was in America, a witness, who happened to be called at the assizes of the county of Chester (State of New York), declared that he did not believe in the existence of God, or in the immortality of the soul. The judge refused to admit his evidence, on the ground that the witness […]
An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things because they haven’t been done before.
In the United States the influence of religion is not confined to the manners, but it extends to the intelligence of the people. Amongst the Anglo-Americans, there are some who profess the doctrines of Christianity from a sincere belief in them, and others who do the same because they are afraid to be suspected of […]
It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.
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.
