#erica

Ours is a country built more on people than on territory. The Jews will come from everywhere: from France, from Russia, from America, from Yemen... Their faith is their passport. ↗

— David Ben-Gurion

#built #come #country #everywhere #faith

Washington, Franklin, Madison, Hamilton, Adams, and Jefferson had imagined the American experiment coming to all sorts of bad ends. They never imagined the Federal City overrun by frontiersmen who cared nothing for history and loved only cheap land and credit, whiskey, tobacco, guns, fast women, fast horses, and Jesus. Not necessarily in that order. ↗

— Walter A. McDougall

#experience

I go down to Newport and Huntington a lot. It's more crowded than where I grew up on Phillip Island, but I think it's helped me adjust to life in America - getting into the water as much as I can. ↗

— Liam Hemsworth

#america #crowded #down #getting #go

Why should you ask blood be spilled for a cause that is not in the interest of the American people? ↗

— Wally Herger

#american people #ask #blood #cause #interest

American scripts are usually non-stop conversation. People talking over each other. I like that. ↗

— Shirley Henderson

#conversation #each #i #like #non-stop

From first to last the civilization of America has been bound up with its physical environment. ↗

— Ellsworth Huntington

#been #bound #civilization #environment #first

Thus, biologically speaking the American people are literally only half an immigrant people. ↗

— Samuel P. Huntington

#american people #biologically #half #immigrant #literally

In America uniformed cops eat in coffee shops, diners and restaurants and I always feel safer having them around. ↗

— Elizabeth Hurley

#america #around #coffee #cops #eat

Barack Obama and Joe Biden have been working hard to help middle-class families make it in America. ↗

— Steny Hoyer

#barack #barack obama #been #families #hard

The compulsion to do good is an innate American trait. Only North Americans seem to believe that they always should, may, and actually can choose somebody with whom to share their blessings. Ultimately this attitude leads to bombing people into the acceptance of gifts. ↗

— Ivan Illich

#actually #always #american #attitude #believe