Un American Quotes
We need help from above if we are to make progress in our journeys.
Dare I ask Mao and his Communist Party?I fear my throat will be cut into two pieces.In the name of revolution, for thought crimes, Such questions can turn me to ashes.
The problem with living so long is that you see too many people pass before you.
Kids without dads are desperate and jealous. Those with dads can be uppity and sharp.
For though the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal can never expire.
The U.S. didn't achieve its liberty or prosperity by mistake. It was by design, and the architects were the Founding Fathers. Don't mess with the Constitution. The Constitution matters.
I think, therefore I am an individual... not a drone in a collective. I think, therefore I am... Libertarian.
What kind of a day was it? A day like all others, that alters and illuminates our times. And you were there.
Dat's what they say of this cauntry back home, Kath: 'America, the land of milk and honey.' Bot they never tell you the milk's gone sour and the honey's stolen.
...am so deeply impressed with the fair mindedness and tolerance of the American people...
History is the archaeology of the present and future.
America's put American Black Folks in such a bad position, empty plates and glasses now get us full.
America is a post-Christian nation only in the sense that we have built a tenement on the foundation of a palace.
If America is to be strong in the future, Americans must see America as home, not divided by race or region. Build American jobs for the future and come together with compassion to solve problems.
The United States has never been in a united state, it has never been a united state. It never will. Lines on screens and paper do not change that.
The best thing about America is that it gives you space. I like that. I like that you buy into the dream, it's a lie but you buy into it and that's all that matters.
He who runs with the platypus is no more a man than he who swallows chesnuts
Americans bred like rabbits, expecting the reaper to slaughter at least a few before they reached ripeness.
Of all America’s natural resources, its richest is an inexhaustible vein of irony.
That's what you do in America: you smile at people you don't know and you smile at people you don't even like and you smile for no reason.
Praise and blame, gain and loss, pleasure and pain, fame and disripute, these are just the worldly winds of existence.
You think an Air Gap is a defense? Sofacy, Stuxnet, Uroburos, AirHopper, BitWhisperer and ProjectSauron…enough said!
The popular mocking of reparations as a harebrained scheme authored by wild-eyed lefties and intellectually unserious black nationalists is fear masquerading as laughter.
I feel sorry for you, Detective Esteban. Because I'm all out of patience, and you're all out of time. I'm sure we'll see each other again someday. In Hell. Save a seat for me.
There is a moment of sheer panic when I realize that Paul's apartment overlooks the park... and is obviously more expensive than mine.
It occurred to them for the first time in their lives that what's divine can come in dark skin.
Driving is boring, " Rabbit pontificates, "but it's what we do. Most of American life is driving somewhere and then driving back wondering why the hell you went.
A family that never embraces life's risks never really lives.
There is no man who is enterprising and keeps well up with the times but confesses that the women of to-day are in every respect, except political liberty, equal to the men.
In the 1940s dams were synonymous with progress, and the rivers were to be conquered with the fervour of a pioneer wielding an axe.