Americans... are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be. It must have something to do with the vanished frontier.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.I dont know what happens to country.
Cormac McCarthyTags: loss frontier borders american-exceptionalism
Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle.
Cormac McCarthyTags: liberty freedom justice liberalism mercy individualism frontier libertarianism solidarity the-west state-of-nature american-exceptionalism social-contract
The Open Road goes to the used-car lot.
Louis SimpsonTags: liberty freedom liberalism capitalism satire individualism self-reliance frontier romanticism restlessness walt-whitman american-exceptionalism rootlessness
So I pulled the sun screen down and squinted and put the throttle to the floor. And kept on moving west. For West is where we all plan to go some day. It is where you go when the land gives out and the oldfield pines encroach. It is where you go when you get the letter saying: Flee, all is discovered. IT is where you go when you look down at the blade in your hand and see the blood on it. It is where you go when you are told that you are a bubble on the tide of empire. It is where you go when you hear that thar's gold in them-thar hills. It is where you go to grow up with the country. It is where you go to spend your old age. Or it is just where you go.
Robert Penn WarrenTags: escape frontier country west out-west
A brave new future had been charted, and none of them knew where it was going to lead.
From my upcoming novel,Frontiers, the sequel to Cybersp@ce and the second in the trilogy.
Tags: frontier alien-technology interstellar-travel
When the culture of the East, its chief characteristic, is added to the strength of body and the strength of mind of the agricultural center, its special contribution, and these two great characteristics are constantly imbued with the spirit of independence and love of liberty which lives in the hearts of the dwellers of the mountains, their main quality added to the national character, there is every reason to believe that we shall have a people and institutions such as will be permanent; with such wealth of resources, of such high education and intelligence, and of such vitality, of such longevity, of such devotion to freedom and hostility to centralization and tyranny as shall enable this Nation of ours to stand indefinitely; and to maintain in the future years its manifest destiny of leading the peoples and nations of earth in the principles of free government, constitutional security and individual liberty. Under these and under these alone, the faculties, the aspirations and inspirations of mankind may be unfolded into their full flowering to the fruition of an ever greater and more humane civilization.
Charles Edwin WinterTags: us-history frontier american-west american-exceptionalism manifest-destiny
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