#erica

Anyone in any walk of life who is content with mediocrity is untrue to himself and to American tradition. ↗

— George S. Patton Jr.

#war #life

The God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God? ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#life

Thinking is the function. Living is the functionary. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#emersonian #life #life

The interaction of disparate cultures, the vehemence of the ideals that led the immigrants here, the opportunity offered by a new life, all gave America a flavor and a character that make it as unmistakable and as remarkable to people today as it was to Alexis de Tocqueville in the early part of the nineteenth century. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#immigrants #life

…esa América que tiembla de huracanes y que vive de amor, hombres de ojos sajones y alma bárbara, vive. Y sueña. Y ama, y vibra, y es la hija del Sol. ↗

— Rubén Darío

#español #hispanic #life

If I want my people to be free, Americans have to be free. ↗

— Russell Means

#libertarian #native-american #men

I have been mastered at last, sweet Cyn, helpless in the face of that most human of failings, I love you. ↗

— D.B. Reynolds

#jabril #vampires-in-america #love

When you go home Tell them of us, and say For your tomorrow, We gave our today. ↗

— Patrick O'Donnell

#joyce-shaughnessy-research #wwii #men

I saw satan laughing with delight The day the music died. ↗

— Don McLean

#music

men who so uneasily tolerate superiors patiently suffer a master, and show themselves proud and servile at the same time. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#men