“The people of the United States have been fortunate in many things. One of the things in which we have been most fortunate has been that so far, due perhaps to certain basic virtues in our traditional ways of doing things, we have managed to keep the crisis of western civilization, which has devastated the rest of the world and in which we are as much involved as anybody, more or less at arm's length.” PeopleWorldWayHas BeensStatesAmericaCertainUnitedUnited StatesVirtueArmsInvolvedCivilizationCrisisWesternDuesTraditionalFortunateIsolationLengthWestern CivilizationDevastated Author:John Dos Passos
“Well, we are Americans. I've always believed that you work with where you are - I am a Mormon woman who was raised on the edge of the Great Salt Lake in the American West in the United States of America. But, by the same token, much of my life has been spent resisting traditional forms of democracy, resisting traditional forms of orthodoxy, be it the United States government or the Mormon Church.” WellsHas BeensStatesGovernmentAmericaFormChurchUnitedUnited StatesDemocracyWestRaisedEdgesTraditionalLakesWhere You AreSaltUnited States Of AmericaAlways BelieveOrthodoxyResistingState GovernmentTokensUnited States GovernmentAmerican West Author:Terry Tempest Williams