Quotes About American

I think of all those who believed in a Latin American paradise and died in a Latin American hell.

Among other things, my own experience has led me to believe that American naivete can sometimes be more than it seems; it can hide something we Europeans can't or don't want to understand.

I think of Beltrán Morales, I think of Rodrigo Lira, I think of Mario Santiago, I think of Reinaldo Arenas. I think of the poets who died under torture, who died of AIDS, or overdosed, all those who believed in a Latin American paradise and died in a Latin American hell.

If we don't exhibit a basic respect for the sacred in all living things, including our enemies (which is the real definition of "pro-life"), then we have done more than change the DNA structure of what it means to be an American. We have mangled it when it comes to being a Christian.

The most twisted but perennial of American myths is that everyone has an equal opportunity to succeed. (p. 174)

The American home has become the noisiest place of utter silence on earth.

Prohibition remade national party politics and imprinted the path of American state development into distinctive and permanent molds.

I once murdered someone and American Express covered everything.

This love of money is the curse of American, and for the sake of it men will sell honor and honesty, till we don't know whom to trust, and it is only a genius like Agassiz who dares to say, 'I cannot waste my time in getting rich,' said Mrs. Jessie sadly.

Miss Kate, though twenty, was dressed with a simplicity which American girls would do well to imitate

Yet however much the British were distressed by Pierpont's bravado, they relied upon him in American financial matters.

The delegates solved this baffling riddle by deciding that all states would enjoy equal representation in the Senate (a sop to small states) while representation in the House of Representatives would be proportionate to each state's population (a sop to large states). This broke the deadlock, though the Senate's composition introduced a lasting political bias in American life in favor of smaller states.

For that reason, historian Clinton Rossiter insisted that Hamilton's "works and words have been more consequential than those of any other American in shaping the Constitution under which we live.

Hamilton and others had argued that the Constitution transcended state governments and directly expressed the will of the American people. Hence, the Constitution began "We the People of the United States" and was ratified by special conventions, not state legislatures.

Once Hamilton was initiated into the cause of American liberty, his life acquired an even more headlong pace that never slackened.

For Hamilton the American Revolution was a practical workshop of economic and political theory, providing critical object lessons and cautionary tales that charted the course for his career.

England exerted much the same influence over American economic policy as Japan would nearly a century later, when it financed much of the U.S. budget deficit in the 1980s.

Far more than just a technical document, the Report on Manufactures was a prescient statement of American nationalism.

It was the only time in American history a sitting president came under fire in combat.

The Continental Army was a national institution and helped to make Hamilton the optimal person to articulate a vision of American nationalism, his vision sharpened by the immigrant's special love for his new country.

For the average American, the message is clear. Liberalism is no longer the answer. It is the problem.

Doing for people what they can, and ought to do for themselves, is a dangerous experiment," the great labor leader Samuel Gompers said. "In the last analysis, the welfare of the workers depends on their own initiative." The classic "liberal" believed individuals should be masters of their own destiny and the least government is the best government; these are precepts of freedom and self-reliance that are at the root of the American way and the American spirit.

the out-of-control momentum of extreme violence of unlimited warfare fueled race hatred. "Successive generations of Americans, both soldiers and civilians, made the killing of Indian men, women, and children a defining element of their first military tradition and thereby part of a shared American identity.

Father took race to be the central and inescapable fact of American life and character, and thus he did not apologize for its being the central fact of his own life and character.