Americanism Quotes - Page 2

• I don't know much about Americanism, but it's a damn good word with which to carry an election.

  Warren G. Harding

  Political, Presidential, Politics

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• Without God there could be no American form of government, nor an American way of life.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Government, Way, Form

  From remarks recorded for the "Back to God" Program of the American Legion, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. February 20, 1955.

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• In Europe, anti-Americanism is much more a hobgoblin of the political, cultural, and religious elites.

  Jean Francois Revel

  Religious, Europe, Political

  "Europe's Anti-American Obsession" by Jean Francois Revel in The American Enterprise Magazine (column "The View From Abroad"), December 2003.

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• McCarthyism is Americanism with its sleeves rolled.

  Joseph McCarthy

  Mccarthyism, Sleeves

  Speech in Wisconsin, 1952, in Richard Rovere Senator Joe McCarthy (1973) p. 8

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• Americanism is not a matter of skin or color.

  Daniel Inouye

  Color, Skins, Matter

  "Sen. Daniel Inouye On Pearl Harbor, After 70 Years". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. December 7, 2011.

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• Which is superior, the Constitution or Sharia law? In Sharia law by their teachings is superior to everything else, it replaces everything else, it replaces the Constitution itself. So, you can`t be assimilated into the American civilization and accept Sharia law as being superior to our Constitution. It`s antithetical to Americanism.

  Steve King

  Teaching, Law, Civilization

  "All In with Chris Hayes", www.msnbc.com. December 9, 2015.

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• If Fascism comes to America it would be on a program of Americanism.

  Huey Long

  America, Would Be, Program

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• Why ... do the myths of America the Hateful take such powerful hold? Because anti-Americanism provides a useful emotional function which goes beyond logic and reaches deep into the darker recesses of the European soul. In centuries past those on the Left who wished to personalise their hatred of capitalism, who sought to make it emotionally resonant by fastening an envious political passion on to a blameless scapegoat people, embraced anti-Semitism. It was the socialism of fools. Which is what anti-Americanism is now.

  Michael Gove

  Powerful, Passion, Emotional

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• I have absolutely no doubt that there is an intense anti-Americanism in all Western Europe, and I think the reason for that is a very, very simple one.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Simple, Thinking, Europe

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• I don't see much future for the Americans ... it's a decayed country. And they have their racial problem, and the problem of social inequalities ... my feelings against Americanism are feelings of hatred and deep repugnance ... everything about the behaviour of American society reveals that it's half Judaised, and the other half negrified. How can one expect a State like that to hold together?

  Adolf Hitler

  Country, Hatred, Feelings

  "Hitler's Table Talk". Die Bormann Vermerke: Transcripts of Hitler's conversations (5 July 1941 - 30 November 1944), made under the supervision of Martin Bormann, 1953.

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• There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Country, Presidential, Rooms

  Speech, New York, N.Y., 12 Oct. 1915

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• Every effort to confine Americanism to a single pattern, to constrain it to a single formula, is disloyalty to everything that is valid in Americanism.

  Henry Steele Commager

  Government, Effort, Patterns

  "Who is Loyal to America?". "Harper's Magazine", Vol. 195, No. 1168, 1947.

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• Americanism demands loyalty to the teacher and respect for his lesson.

  Bainbridge Colby

  Loyalty, Teacher, Demand

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• Recognition of the Supreme Being was the first - the most basic - expression of Americanism.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Expression, Firsts, Recognition

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Sure we'll have Fascism here, but it will come as an anti-Fascism movement.

  Huey Long

  America, Movement, Fascism

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• Anti-Americanism from abroad would not be such a problem if Americans were united in standing up for their own country.

  Dinesh D'Souza

  Country, Patriotic, America

  FaceBook post by Dinesh D'Souza from Apr 11, 2014

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• Cheap anti-Americanism will eventually have consequences.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Consequence

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• The spiritual kinship between Lincoln and Whitman was founded upon their Americanism, their essential Westernism. Whitman had grown up without much formal education; Lincoln had scarcely any education. One had become the notable poet of the day; one the orator of the Gettsyburg Address. It was inevitable that Whitman as a poet should turn with a feeling of kinship to Lincoln, and even without any association or contact feel that Lincoln was his.

  Edgar Lee Masters

  Spiritual, Feelings, Essentials

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• I would like to say is that to be truly American and represent American ideals you need to consider yourself a citizen of the world. American policy has gone contrary to that ideal. The Bush Administration is bent on making the world submit to "Americanism" instead of becoming a member of the world community. This orchestration comes from the very top of the Administration and has pushed America into a corner. So, rather than trying to humbly mix with the rest of the world, we are forcing ourselves upon it. We seem to create conflicts with everyone.

  Chuck D

  America, Community, Trying

  Interview with Antonino D'Ambrosio, progressive.org. July 20, 2005.

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• Perhaps I am still very much of an American. That is to say, naïve, optimistic, gullible. In the eyes of a European, what am I but an American to the core, an American who exposes his Americanism like a sore. Like it or not, I am a product of this land of plenty, a believer in superabundance, a believer in miracles.

  Henry Miller

  Optimistic, Eye, Land

  Henry Miller (1957). “Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch”, p.319, New Directions Publishing

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• To embrace the ideas of Malcolm X is to embrace the ideas of African Internationalism and the ideas of African Internationalism are opposite and contradictory to the ideals of Americanism. The ideals of African Internationalism promote freedom from oppression and injustice. These ideals promote freedom and independence.

  Omali Yeshitela

  Opposites, Ideas, Independence

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• The experience of the gangster as an experience of art is universal to Americans. There is almost nothing we understand better or react to more readily or with quicker intelligence. In ways that we do not easily or willingly define, the gangster speaks for us, expressing that part of the American psyche which rejects the qualities and the demands of modern life, which rejects Americanism itself.

  Robert Warshow

  Art, Quality, Way

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• Anti-Americanism may indeed have grown fiercer than it was during the cold war. It is a common phenomenon that when the angels fail to deliver, the demons become more fearsome.

  Ian Buruma

  War, Angel, May

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• First, we should become informed about communism, about socialism, and about Americanism. What better way can one become informed than by first studying the inspired words of the prophets and using that as a foundation; against which to test all other material. This is in keeping with the Prophet Joseph Smith's motto, "When the Lord commands, do it."

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Tests, Way, Firsts

  Ezra Taft Benson (1974). “God, family, country: our three great loyalties”

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• I certainly know German colleagues in the US who try to be Americans, try to melt into Americanism, even before they get married and become American citizens. But I've never tried that.

  Bernhard Schlink

  Trying, Citizens, Married

  "Bernhard Schlink: being German is a huge burden" by Kate Connolly, www.theguardian.com. September 16, 2012.

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