The
real democratic American idea is, not that every man
shall be on a level with every other man, but that
every man shall have liberty to be what God made
him, without hindrance.
-- Henry Ward Beecher
1813-1887, American
Preacher, Orator, Writer
It is
a noble land that God has given us: a land that can
feed and clothe the world; a land whose coastlines
would enclose half the countries of Europe; a land
set like a sentinel between the two imperial oceans
of the globe.
-- Albert J.
Beveridge
American Senator
The
spirit is at home, if not entirely satisfied, in
America.
-- Allan Bloom
1930-1992, American
Educator, Author
Of all
the nations in the world, the United States was
built in nobody's image. It was the land of the
unexpected, of unbounded hope, of ideals, of quest
for an unknown perfection. It is all the more
unfitting that we should offer ourselves in images.
And all the more fitting that the images which we
make wittingly or unwittingly to sell America to the
world should come back to haunt and curse us.
-- Daniel J. Boorstin
1914-, American
Historian
