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“We must look at what immigration to America involves. To the new arrivals, the change is excruciating. Learning a new language and dealing with strange customs make the first years of life in the new land painful... The economic system of the United States is a mighty engine of persuasion. It motivates people to do what otherwise they never would in return for fulfilling their dreams. In the process, people learn that there is no sharp line between physical well-being and the higher purposes of life. The comfort of owning a house is at once meeting the obligation to care for one”

“Unnecessary customs live a brutally short life in America.”

America Customs Unnecessary Short Life

Book:The good word & other words

Source: The good word & other words

“In America, conscription is unknown; men are enlisted for payment. Compulsory recruitment is so alien to the ideas and so foreign to the customs of the people of the United States that I doubt whether they would ever dare to introduce it into their law.”

People Men Ideas States America Law United United States Doubt Dare Aliens Customs Introducing Payment Compulsory Recruitment Enlisted Conscription

Author:Alexis de Tocqueville

“The custom of procuring abortions has reached such appalling proportions in America as to be beyond belief... So great is the misery of the working classes that seventeen abortions are committed in every one hundred pregnancies.”

America Belief Class Hundred Misery Committed Proportion Abortion Customs Pregnancy Working Class Seventeen

Author:Emma Goldman

“Baseball has the largest library of law and love and custom and ritual, and therefore, in a nation that fundamentally believes it is a nation under law, well, baseball is America's most privileged version of the level field.”

Believe Wells America Law Nations Levels Fields And Love Baseball Library Versions Customs Ritual Privileged

Author:A. Bartlett Giamatti

“In America, law substitutes for custom.”

America Law Customs Substitutes

Book:Off the Reservation: Reflections on Boundary-busting Border-crossing Loose Canons

Source: Off the Reservation: Reflections on Boundary-busting Border-crossing Loose Canons

“Freedom, by its nature, must be chosen, and defended by citizens, and sustained by the rule of law and the protection of minorities. And when the soul of a nation finally speaks, the institutions that arise may reflect customs and traditions very different from our own. America will not impose our own style of government on the unwilling. Our goal instead is to help others find their own voice, attain their own freedom, and make their own way.”