A great deal of what many Americans hold dear is nowhere written on those four pages of parchment, or in any of the amendments. What has made the Constitution durable is the same as what makes it demanding: the fact that so much was left out.
Jill LeporeStichwörter: politics united-states americans constitution
It seems as if Americans like to be the center of attention even after they're dead.
Hidekaz HimaruyaStichwörter: dead americans attention hetalia
You know, if you're an American and you're born at this time in history especially, you're lucky. We all are. We won the world history Powerball lottery.
Bill MaherStichwörter: humor luck americans
The British are the only people in history crass enough to have made revolutionaries out of Americans.
Shashi TharoorStichwörter: americans british
...It was one of the great livery-stableman's most masterly intuitions to have discovered that Americans want to get away from amusement even more quickly than they want to get to it.
Edith WhartonStichwörter: americans amusement
McKisco's contacts with the princely classes in America had impressed upon him their uncertain and fumbling snobbery, their delight in ignorance and their deliberate rudeness, all lifted from the English with no regard paid to factors that make English philistinism and rudeness purposeful, and applied in a land where a little knowledge and civility buy more than they do anywhere else - an attitude which reached its apogee in the "Harvard manner" of about 1900.
F. Scott FitzgeraldStichwörter: americans
The job facing American voters… in the days and years to come is to determine which hearts, minds and souls command those qualities best suited to unify a country rather than further divide it, to heal the wounds of a nation as opposed to aggravate its injuries, and to secure for the next generation a legacy of choices based on informed awareness rather than one of reactions based on unknowing fear.
AberjhaniStichwörter: fear politics civic-duty patriotism courage hope political-philosophy voting americans the-future choosing barack-obama xenophobia legacies famous-quotes gun-violence police-reform police-shootings social-responsibility options republican-national-convention quotes-by-aberjhani savannah-author-aberjhani democratic-national-convention making-choices mitt-romney political-advocacy political-awareness political-responsibility presidential-election presidential-election-campaign social-awareness vision-of-america
And the looks on the faces of my countrymenpassive heads bent arms at their trousers everyone guilty of not being their best of not earning their daily bread the kind of docility I had never expected from Americans even after so many years of our decline. Here was the tiredness of failure imposed on a country that believed only in its opposite. Here was the end product of our deep moral exhaustion.
Gary ShteyngartStichwörter: america united-states guilt americans defeat docility decline exhaustion
Americans see democracy as a remedy for all ills-to be taken three times daily like prescription medicine. It works for them. Ergo - it should work for the world. What America naïvely forgets is that for democracy to function, most of a populace must have something personally that is worth preserving.
Arthur HaileyStichwörter: democracy america americans
Before you leave here, Sir, you’re going to learn that one of the most brutal things in the world is your average nineteen-year-old American boy.
Philip CaputoStichwörter: boys war americans teenagers cruel brutality teenage brutal
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