Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite ...left out, and the Populace nearly.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The lies fall like flaxen threads from the skies All over America, and the fact that some of them are true of course... Doesn't so much not matter as serve to justify The whole mad organizing force under the billows of correct delight.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
European society has always been divided into classes in a way that American society never has been. A European writer considers h...imself to be part of an old and honorable tradition--of intellectual activity, of letters--and his choice of a vocation does not cause him any uneasy wonder as to whether or not it will cost him all his friends. But this tradition does not exist in America.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Westward the course of empire takes its way; The four first acts already past,... A fifth shall close the drama with the day; Time's noblest offspring is the last.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Now we are part of the world, and the world is part of us. If any part suffers, all suffer. If any part loses freedom, all will lo...se it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
While the focus in the landscape of Old World cities was commonly government structures, churches, or the residences of rulers, th...e landscape and the skyline of American cities have boasted their hotels, department stores, office buildings, apartments, and skyscrapers. In this grandeur, Americans have expressed their Booster Pride, their hopes for visitors and new settlers, and customers, for thriving commerce and industry.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I had now formed a clear and settled opinion, that the people of America were well warranted to resist a claim that their fellow-s...ubjects in the mother-country should have the entire command of their fortunes, by taxing them without their consent.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »