#america

Our job is to be an awake people...utterly conscious, to attend to our world. ↗

— Louis Owens

#native-american #inspirational

Let it be told to the future world that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive, that the city and the country, alarmed at one common danger, came forth to meet it. ↗

— Barack Obama

#inauguration #inspiration #inspirational

I will work with anyone that wants to get America back on track and make sure that the government is the servant and no longer the master. ↗

— Todd Akin

#anyone #back #get #government #i

Each of us lives with a sword over his head. There are those who can ignore its shadow and those who cannot. Those who cannot are not necessarily better than those who can. But they are the creators of the special myth of their time, because any myth is the creation of the very few who cannot bear reality. ↗

— Murray Kempton

#activism-inspiration #american-history #ethics #myth #revolution

Don't talk to me about aesthetics or tradition. Talk to me about what sells and what's good right now. And what the American people like is to think the underdog still has a chance. ↗

— George Steinbrenner

#american #american people #chance #good #like

The audacity of my sagacity is instrumentality to my successity. ↗

— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#audacity #creativity #ifeanyi-enoch-onuoha #inspiration #instrumentality

I've always loved movies about con men. I think con men are as American as apple pie. ↗

— Bill Paxton

#always #american #apple #apple pie #con

I lived the true American dream, because I was able to pursue what I set as my goals at a very young age. ↗

— Mario Andretti

#age #american #american dream #because #dream

Most Americans are close to total ignorance about the world. They are ignorant. That is an unhealthy condition in a country in which foreign policy has to be endorsed by the people if it is to be pursued. And it makes it much more difficult for any president to pursue an intelligent policy that does justice to the complexity of the world. ↗

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

#foreign-policy #geopolitics #ignorance #populism #intelligence

Every American is at heart an Anarchist. He hates constraint, he hates regulation, he hates law. The most elementary arrangements of an ordered community, as we should think, are to him irksome and intolerable encroachments on his liberty. But there is one point on which the conservatism of America would put the very Czar to shame. The American will tolerate much, but he will have no tampering with the rights of property. He may have nothing himself, but he will guard the havings of others with all the jealousy a man usually gives only to his own. In a land where you may be a pauper to-day and a millionaire to-morrow ; where it is the commonest experience to meet a man who has made, and lost, half-a- dozen fortunes in half-a-dozen different professions in as many years — here a man looks upon the wealth of others as held in trust for himself, and will suffer no diminution of its sanctity. Socialism, anarchism, any "ism" that smacks of confiscation or nationalisation, is a far more heinous horror in this land of democracy than anywhere in the king- ridden East ↗

— G.W. Steevens

#experience