This Administration has declared unconditional war on poverty and I have come here this morning to ask all of you to enlist as vol...unteers. Members of all parties are welcome to our tent. Members of all races ought to be there. Members of all religions should come and help us now to strike the hammer of truth against the anvil of public opinion again and again until the ears of this Nation are open, until the hearts of this Nation are touched, and until the conscience of America is awakened.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
'Society' in America means all the honest, kindly-mannered, pleasant- voiced women, and all the good, brave, unassuming men, betwe...en the Atlantic and the Pacific. Each of these has a free pass in every city and village, 'good for this generation only,' and it depends on each to make use of this pass or not as it may happen to suit his or her fancy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
America had no use for Adams because he was eighteenth-century, and yet it worshipped Grant because he was archaic and should have... lived in a cave and worn skins.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What you have to do is enter the fiction of America, enter America as fiction. It is, indeed, on this fictive basis that it domina...tes the world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The confrontation between America and Europe reveals not so much a rapprochement as a distortion, an unbridgeable rift. There isn'...t just a gap between us, but a whole chasm of modernity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If you are prepared to accept the consequences of your dreams ... then you must still regard America today with the same naive ent...husiasm as the generations that discovered the New World.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The multiplication of individual sects should not fool us: the important point is that the whole of America is preoccupied with th...e sect as a moral institution, with its immediate demand for beatification, its material efficacity, its compulsion for justification, and doubtless also with its madness and frenzy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Until now when we have started to talk about the uniqueness of America we have almost always ended by comparing ourselves to Europ...e. Toward her we have felt all the attraction and repulsions of Oedipus.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The most important American addition to the World Experience was the simple surprising fact of America. We have helped prepare man...kind for all its later surprises.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »