“The goal that the Obama team has is to fundamentally replace the historic America of self reliance, independence, the work ethic, the people who go out and achieve because they spend their lifetime doing the right things and they want to replace it with a politician dominated redistributionist bureaucracy which in the essence would mean the end of the America as it has been for the last 400 years.” PeopleWantYearsMeanHas BeensEndsSelfLastsAmericaGoalTeamAchievePoliticianEthicsEssenceIndependenceLifetimeRight ThingWork EthicBureaucracySelf RelianceHistoricRelianceDoing The Right Thing Author:Newt Gingrich
“We need our president to be successful because our futures are all tied to the success of America, which means America's government, which means, in essence, the president.” NeedsMeanGovernmentAmericaPresidentSuccessfulEssenceBeing SuccessfulOur FutureTied Author:Michael Bloomberg
“Certainly the most obvious . . . example of the strictly infantile essence of America's all-conquering mentality greets our eyes daily, anywhere and everywhere, in the guise of the tabloid newspaper. The tabloid newspaper actually means to the typical American of the era what the Bible is popularly supposed to have meant to the typical Pilgrim Father: viz. a very present help in times of trouble, plus a means of keeping out of trouble via harmless, since vicarious, indulgence in the pomps and vanities of this wicked world.” WorldMeanHelpingEyeAmericaFatherTroubleExampleEssenceObviousNewspapersConquerVanityErasWickedPlusMentalityTypicalIndulgencePilgrimTabloidsGuiseInfantileVicariousTimes Of TroubleWicked World Author:e. e. cummings
“Most thoughtful Americans of today seem to have forgotten how strongly their own and immediate predecessors, Emerson, Hawthorne and Whitman, were still preoccupied with the essence behind things.” StillsSeemsTodayAmericaBehindsEssenceForgottenThoughtfulPredecessorsHawthorne Author:Johan Huizinga
“One of my recent acquisitions. It is called a medicine bag, from one of the native tribes of North America. A fascinating people, highly skilled in the use of plants' power. They too understand nature's essence as divine. So much so that they do not think it is man's place to own the land at all. Imagine that - think of all the wars we would have missed!” PeopleThinkingMenWarUseAmericaImagineLandDivineEssenceMedicinePlantNativeFascinatingBagsImagine ThatTribesAcquisitionNorth America Author:Maryrose Wood
“Both of my parents were born into poor families on the island of Cuba. They came to America because it was the only place where people like them could have a chance.My father was a bartender. And the journey from the back of that bar to the [election 2016], to me, that is the essence of the American dream.” PeopleDreamAmericaFatherParentBornChancePoorJourneyEssenceElectionBarsIslandsAmerican DreamCubaBartenderPoor Family Author:Marco Rubio
“There's a very healthy tradition in America of skepticism of centralized power. If we ever lose the skepticism of centralized power, we'll lose the essence of the country.” IfsCountryAmericaLosesHealthyTraditionEssenceSkepticism Author:Howard Fineman
“None of us were prepared to hear what Justice Scalia said, because in essence what he was saying is let`s go back to pre-Board of Education - Brown versus Board of Education, 1950s America where blacks are doing all right going to black schools or schools where blacks go. He said go to less advanced schools where they do all right. We`re going back to separate but equal.” SaidSchoolAmericaBlackJusticeEqualEssencePreparedBoardsBrownVersusBoard Of EducationSeparate But EqualJustice Scalia Author:Chris Hayes
“Every country that meets Buddhism molds it into their own indigenous religion, as America will. A very clear example of this is Japan, which threw out almost all the dharma, and just kept that essence, which spoke to them.” CountryAmericaClearExampleBuddhismEssenceJapanSpokesIndigenousMoldDharma Author:Tenzin Palmo
“I always want to read something about our people's enslavement near the 4th. To keep it light, I also read Rolanda Watts' "Destiny Lingers" She is a sisterfriend and I ran into her at Essence. Then, I finished Paul Taylor's "The Next America." Taylor is the Executive VP at the Pew Research Center, and he uses their excellent data base to talk about the coming "generational showdown" which we are experiencing, at some level, in Black America.” PeopleWantUseLightAmericaNextBlackLevelsDestinyResearchEssenceFinishedDataExcellentRanExecutivesEnslavementBlack AmericaShowdowns Author:Julianne Malveaux
“The essence of America - that which really unites us - is not ethnicity, or nationality or religion - it is an idea - and what an idea it is: That you can come from humble circumstances and do great things.” IdeasAmericaCircumstancesEssenceHumbleGreat ThingsPatriotismNationalityEthnicityIndependence Day Author:Condoleezza Rice
“What is the essence of America? The essence of America is finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom "to" and freedom "from."” AmericaPerfectBalanceFindingsEssencePatrioticDelicatePatriotMaintaining4th Of JulyJulyAmerican PatrioticGreat PatrioticAmerican PatriotismAmerican PatriotIndependence Day PatrioticPatriotism In AmericaUsa PatrioticJuly 4Usa PatriotismPatriotism And FreedomInspiring Patriotic Author:Marilyn vos Savant
“Freedom is the very essence of our nation. To be sure, ours is not a perfect nation. But even with our troubles, we remain the beacon of hope for oppressed peoples everywhere. Never give up the fight for freedom - a fight which, though it may never end, is the most ennobling known to man.” MenGivingMayEndsAmericaFightingNationsPerfectKnownTroubleGiving UpEssenceOppressedNever Giving UpBeaconsFighting For Freedom Author:Ronald Reagan
“The essence of America lies not in the headlined heroes...but in the everyday folks who live and die unknown, yet leave their dreams as legacies” DreamAmericaLyingDiesHeroEssenceEverydayFolksLegacy Author:Alan Lomax
“The freedom to be an individual is the essence of America.” AmericaLiteratureIndividualEssence Author:Marilyn vos Savant
“Nowhere in politics is there such a mismatch between public and private realm as in transport. Everyone on the M6 last weekend would have agreed with Transport Minister Alasdair Darling's reported hatred of cars. They too wanted drivers off the roads and on to public transport. Go to it, Mr Darling, they cried in unison, get rid of all those cars. Except, of course, their own. Other people's cars are traffic. My car is the outward essence of my being. It is my hat, stick and cane. It embodies my freedom as a citizen and my right as a democrat. My car is my soul in flight.” PeopleWorldSoulWantedLastsAmericaCoursesModernCarCitizensHatredEssenceSticksDemocratFlightMy SoulMinistersRealmsHatsDriversWeekendCriedTrafficModern WorldDarlingTransportUnisonMismatch Author:Simon Jenkins