The higher American patriotism, on the other hand, combines loyalty to historical tradition and precedent with the imaginative projection of an ideal national Promise.

Had it not been for the Atlantic Ocean and the virgin wilderness, the United States would never have been the Land of Promise.

I am not a prophet in any sense of the word, and I entertain an active and intense dislike of the foregoing mixture of optimism, fatalism, and conservatism.

The national school is not a lecture hall or a library. Its schooling consists chiefly in experimental collective action aimed at the realization of a collective purpose.

The average American is nothing if not patriotic.

Unless the great majority of Americans not only have, but believe they have, a fair chance, the better American future will be dangerously compromised.

The adoption by Jefferson and the Republicans of the political structure of their opponents is of an importance hardly inferior to that of the adoption of the Constitution by the states.

The only fruitful promise of which the life of any individual or any nation can be possessed, is a promise determined by an ideal.

Of course, Americans have no monopoly of patriotic enthusiasm and good faith.

So far I, at least, have no fault to find with implications of Hamilton's Federalism, but unfortunately his policy was in certain other respects tainted with a more doubtful tendency.

The first phase of American political history was characterized by the conflict between the Federalists and the Republicans, and it resulted in the complete triumph of the latter.

I prefer to be alive, so I'm cautious about taking risks.

I don't want no drummer. I set the tempo.

You Nazis! I pity the devil when you boys start arriving in bunches.

When you connect with a cause, it's like falling in love.

The world laughs at things it would really prefer to admire, and like Aesop's fox it criticizes things it covets.

Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each. Let them be your only diet drink and botanical medicines.

Breathing deeply and releasing fear will help you get to where you want to be.

Advertising is the edge of what people know how to do and of human experience and it explains the latest ways progress has changed us to ourselves.

You will always find that those are most apt to boast of national merit, who have little or not merit of their own to depend on . . .

It's hard to find happiness after success if the goalposts of success keep changing.