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I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities -- a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.
Through the history of our nation, Americans have always extended their hands in gestures of assistance.
The American people have a genius for splendid and unselfish action, and into the hands of America, God has placed the destinies of afflicted humanity.
The North American system only wants to consider the positive aspects of reality. Men and women are subjected from childhood to an inexorable process of adaptation; certain principles, contained in brief formulas are endlessly repeated by the Press, the radio, the churches, and the schools, and by those kindly, sinister beings, the North American mothers and wives. person imprisoned by these schemes is like a plant in a flowerpot too small for it: he cannot grow or mature.
America has run the world for at least the past years, and when you're at the top that long, you forget what it's like in the valley. There are + billion people out there now who are willing to study harder, work harder for less money and be more industrious than we are.nd we're linked to them by technology. With telecommunications, you can have your bookkeeping done in Madra, India, for less than it costs here. Today technology can replace whole new industries, so you have to stay flexible. To survive today, you have to be able to walk on quicksand and dance with electrons.
Is America a land of God where saints abide for ever? Where golden fields spread fair and broad, where flows the crystal river? Certainly not flush with saints, and a good thing, too, for the saints sent buzzing into man's ken now are but poor-mouthed ecclesiastical film stars and cliché-shouting publicity agents. Their little knowledge bringing them nearer to their ignorance, ignorance bringing them nearer to death, but nearness to death no nearer to God.
Our country is great because it is built on principles of self-reliance, opportunity, innovation, and compassion for others.
Our American tradition of neighbor helping neighbor has always been one of our greatest strengths and most noble traditions.
America is like one of those old-fashioned six-cylinder truck engines that can be missing two sparkplugs and have a broken flywheel and have a crankshaft that's millimeters off fitting properly, and two bad ball-bearings, and still runs. We're in that kind of situation. We can have substantial parts of the population committing suicide, and still run and look fairly good.
Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American.merica is the only idealistic nation in the world.