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He only salutes the flag with one finger.
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He who fights and runs away, lives to fight another day, such is the soul of the Americans. Foolish, for the wise are bold. Cowardice, for the courageous fight. Funny, because they’re running the wrong way.
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His home!–the Western giant smiles, And turns the spotty globe to find it;– This little speck the British Isles? ‘Tis but a freckle,–never mind it.
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Hold on, my friends, to the Constitution and to the Republic for which it stands. Miracles do not cluster and what has happened once in 6,000 years, may not happen again. Hold on to the Constitution, for if the American Constitution should fail, there will be anarchy throughout the world.
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Home from the lonely cities, time’s wreck, and the naked woe, Home through the clean great waters where freeman’s pennants blow, Home to the land men dream of, where all the nations go.
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How does it become a man to behave toward the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.
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How has New England’s romance fled, Even as a vision of the morning! Its right foredone,–its guardians dead,– Its priestesses, bereft of dread, Waking the veriest urchin’s scorning! * * * * * And now our modern Yankee sees Nor omens, spells, nor mysteries; And naught above, below, around, Of life or death, of sight or sound, Whate’er its nature, form, or look, Excites his terror or surprise,– All seeming to his knowing eyes Familiar as his ‘catechize,’ Or ‘Webster’s Spelling-Book.
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How prophetic LEnfant was when he laid out Washington, D.C., as a city that goes around in circles.
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I admit, there are plenty of intelligent people in America, the only problem is it’s the unintelligent people who run it.
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I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.
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I anticipate the Day when to command Respect in the remotest Regions it will be sufficient to say I am an American.
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I assume the presidents going to say he got bad intelligence… I think that wherever you see poverty, whether its in the white rural community or the black urban community, you see that the resources have been sucked up into the war and tax cuts for the rich.
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I believe America”s best days are ahead of us because I believe that the future belongs to freedom, not to fear.
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I believe that the heaviest blow ever dealt at liberty’s head will be dealt by this nation [the United States] in the ultimate failure of its example to the earth.
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I can hear you. The rest of the world hears you. And the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon.
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I can never suppose this country so far lost to all ideas of self-importance as to be willing to grant America independence; if that could ever be adopted I shall despair of this country being ever preserved from a state of inferiority and consequently falling into a very low class among the European States.
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I confidently trust that the American people will prove themselves too wise not to detect the false pride or the dangerous ambitions or the selfish schemes which so often hide themselves under that deceptive cry of mock patriotism: Our country, right or wrong!’ They will not fail to recognize that our dignity, our free institutions and the peace and welfare of this and coming generations of Americans will be secure only as we cling to the watchword of true patriotism: Our countrywhen right to be kept right; when wrong to be put right.’
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I despair of the Republic! Such dreariness, such whining sallow women, such utter absence of the amenities, such crass food, crass manners, crass landscape! What a horror it is for a whole nation to be developing without the sense of beauty and eating bananas for breakfast.
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I don”t feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.
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I don’t know if a country where the people are so ignorant of reality and of history, if you can call that a free world.
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