We in America today are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before.
Herbert HooverTags: america
I need another drink!” I said as a second attempt to change the subject.
“Shots!” America yelled.
Shepley rolled his eyes. “Oh, yeah. That’s what you need, another shot.
Tags: america funny shots beautiful-disaster abby-abernathy jamie-mcguire shepley
...am so deeply impressed with the fair mindedness and tolerance of the American people...
Virchand GandhiTags: america tolerance american virchand-gandhi
Look at him,” she said, shaking her head. “Travis Maddox: Mr. Mom.
Jamie McGuireTags: america funny beautiful-disaster travis-maddox jamie-mcguire mr-mom
All the stuff our fathers took for granted as long as you worked hard, the great safety net and the fair wage and the gold watch at the end of it all? That's all gone around here, my friend.
Dennis LehaneTags: america moonlight-mile kehane
The reason the founders chafed at the idea of an American standing army and vested the power of war making in the cumbersome legislature was not to disadvantage us against future enemies, but to disincline us toward war as a general matter... With citizen-soldiers, with the certainty of a vigorous political debate over the use of a military subject to politicians' control, the idea was for us to feel it- uncomfortably- every second we were at war. But after a generation or two of shedding the deliberate political encumbrances to war that they left us... war making has become almost an autonomous function of the American state. It never stops.
Rachel MaddowTags: war america military constitution founding-fathers
It was now December 7, 1941; the date that Franklin D. Roosevelt was destined to declare would live in infamy.
Randall WallaceTags: history wwii america world-war-ii ww2 fdr pearl-harbor franklin-d-roosevelt
Nothing is further from the truth than the claim that the American soul is ‘open-minded’ and unbiased; on the contrary, it is ridden with countless taboos of which people are sometimes not even aware.
Julius EvolaTags: truth america paradoxical
All around us were people I had spent ten years avoiding--shapeless women in wool bathing suits, dull-eyed men with hairless legs and self-conscious laughs, all Americans, all fearsomely alike. These people should be kept at home, I thought; lock them in the basement of some goddamn Elks Club and keep them pacified with erotic movies; if they want a vacation, show them a foreign art film; and if they still aren't satisfied, send them into the wilderness and run them with vicious dogs.
Hunter S. ThompsonTags: people america existential americans
Today you go into make a modern recording with all this technology. The bass plays first, then the drums come in later, then they track the trumpet and the singer comes in and they ship the tape somewhere. Well, none of the musicians have played together. You can’t play jazz music that way. In order for you to play jazz, you’ve got to listen to them. The music forces you at all times to address what other people are thinking and for you to interact with them with empathy and to deal with the process of working things out. And that’s how our music really could teach what the meaning of American democracy is.
Wynton MarsalisTags: democracy america jazz ken-burns
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