Quotes About America

I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system.

In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society.

if the Americans do not launch a conventional attack Israel would be compelled and justified in launching a nuclear strike to prevent a "second Holocaust.

In America few people will trust you unless you are irreverent.

America was becoming the world's best-defended Third World country, and the best and the brightest were collaborating in the process.

I'd rather see America save her soul than her face.

Amid all this, somehow, the United States of America suffered a major nonmilitary defeat. It lost no important war, yet it did not survive the Pox. Perhaps it simply lost sight of what it once intended to be, then blundered aimlessly until it exhausted itself. What is left of it now, what it has become, I do not know.

Leave your sinful past behind, and become one of us. Help us to make America great again." He

It's hard to believe that kind of thing happened here, in the United States in the twenty-first century, but it did.

language that his people are free to hear what they want to hear. As for the beatings, the tarring and feathering, and the destruction of "heathen houses of devil-worship," he has a simple answer: "Join us! Our doors are open to every nationality, every race! Leave your sinful past behind, and become one of us. Help us to make America great again.

supporters are more than a little seduced by Jarret's talk of making America great again. He seems to be unhappy with certain other countries. We could wind up in a war. Nothing like a war to rally people around flag, country, and great leader.

Amid all this, somehow, the United States of America suffered a major nonmilitary defeat. It lost no important war, yet it did not survive the Pox. Perhaps it simply lost sight of what it once intended to be, then blundered aimlessly until it exhausted itself.

sinful past behind, and become one of us. Help us to make America great again." He's had notable success with this carrot-and-stick approach.

Wealth was the power to set things and people in motion; and in America, therefore, wealth came to be frankly regarded as the breath of God, the divine spirit immanent in man. God was the supreme Boss, the universal Employer.

In early chapters of this book America is given a not very attractive part. I have imagined the triumph of the cruder sort of Americanism over all that is best and most promising in American culture. May this not occur in the real world! But since the possibility of such an issue is admitted even by many Americans themselves, I shall, I hope be forgiven for emphasizing it, and using it as an early turning point in the long drama of Man.

Para la mayoría de norteamericanos la Segunda Guerra Mundial es, quizá por nostalgia, la «guerra buena» en que Estados Unidos y sus aliados triunfaron sobre el nazismo alemán, los fascismos y el militarismo japonés. El resto del mundo la recuerda, sin embargo, como el conflicto más sangriento de la historia de la humanidad.

Roosevelt used to say, "You and I are the two best actors in America.

The Christianization of the modern world is leading to the modernization of the Christian faith and away from the way of Jesus. Similarly, as we shall see, the Christianization of America has led to the Americanization of the Christian faith and away from the way of Jesus.

To most people at the time it was unthinkable that religion might ever not be what it was then. However, Bryce mused, if religion in America were ever to lose its strength and authority, the result would be "the completest revolution of all." The strongest bonding in American society would have gone, and unbounded freedom would run amok and work to cause its own undoing.

One overall conclusion is plain: under the weight of the combined impact of exploding pluralism, the expansion of the state, and emerging separationism, the early American settlement, so brilliantly described by Tocqueville, is gone, and gone for good.

Americans might ponder two quotations. One is the much-cited, self-congratulatory saying attributed to Tocqueville (but whose source no one has so far been able to show me): "America is great because America is good." The other is the very real saying of Samuel Johnson, attacking the similar self-congratulatory "greatness" of the English: "We continue every day to show by new proofs, that no people can be great who have ceased to be virtuous.

America has been hit by Allah at its most vulnerable point, destroying, thank God, its most prestigious buildings.

If you [Americans] are sincere in your desire for peace and security, we have answered you.

I tell you, freedom and human rights in America are doomed. The U.S. government will lead the American people in and the West in general into an unbearable hell and a choking life.