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We can have no "50-50" allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he read more
We can have no "50-50" allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all.
By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.
Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.
A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.
A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.
What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is understand others.
What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is understand others.
Americans have different ways of saying things. They say "elevator", we say "lift"... they say "President", we say "stupid psychopathic read more
Americans have different ways of saying things. They say "elevator", we say "lift"... they say "President", we say "stupid psychopathic git.
America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. read more
America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still.
We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital.
We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital.
In all nations an exceptional man exists that compensates the deficiencies of the remainder. In those moments, when humanity is read more
In all nations an exceptional man exists that compensates the deficiencies of the remainder. In those moments, when humanity is found collectively in a state of decadence, there always remain those exceptional beings as point of reference.