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. . . see: "WEST (THE OLD/WILD)" see "FREEDOM" for other related links see "PLACES" for other related links America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own. --John Quincy Adams (1767—1848) 6th President of the United States. I got into the car and lit out to drift for a time. I had a grand ride, over mountains and rivers and out onto the prairies, crossed the Cumberland, Tennessee, Ohio, Mississippi, and Missouri Rivers. It rained, the wind blew and the sun shone. Again I got in love with America. What a land! O, Charles, if we can but begin to love it and treat it decently some day! It is so violent and huge and gorgeous and rich and willing to be loved, like a great, fine wench. --Sherwood Anderson (1876—1941) American writer of short stories. _Letters_ - I have fallen in love with American names, The sharp names that never get fat, The snakeskin titles of mining-claims, The plumed war-bonnet of Medicine Hat, Tucson and Deadwood and Lost Mule Flat. [. . . ] I will remember Carquinez Straits, Little French Lick and Lundy’s Lane, The Yankee ships and the Yankee dates And the bullett-towns of Calamity Jane. I will remember Skunktown Plain. [. . . ] You may bury my body in Sussex grass, You may bury my tongue at Champmedy. I shall not be there. I shall rise and pass. Bury my heart at Wounded Knee. --Stephen Vincent Benét (1898—1943) American poet and novelist. "American Names" [1927] - God bless America, Land that I love, Stand beside her and guide her Thru the night with a light from above, From the mountains to the prairies, To the oceans white with foam, God bless America, My home sweet home. --Irving Berlin (1888—1989) American songwriter. "God Bless America" [1939 song] Kate Smith's version: http://www.cmgww.com/coming/smith.html - My country 'tis of thee Sweet land of felony Of thee I sing -- Land where my father fried Young witches and applied Whips to the Quaker's hide And made him spring. --Ambrose Bierce (1842—1914) American newspaperman, wit, and satirist. "A Rational Anthem" _Black Beatles in Amber_ [1892] Contrary to much contemporary wisdom, the United States has one of the longest uninterrupted political traditions of any nation in the world. What is more, that tradition is unambiguous; its meaning is articulated in simple, rational speech that is immediately comprehensible and powerfully persuasive to all normal human beings. America tells one story: the unbroken, ineluctable progress of freedom and equality. From its first settlers and its political foundings on, there has been no dispute that freedom and equality are the essence of justice for us. No one serious or notable has stood outside this consensus. You had to be a crank or a buffoon (e.g., Henry Adams or H.L. Mencken, respectively) to get attention as a nonbeliever in the democracy. --Allan Bloom (1930—1992) American writer and educator. _The Closing of the American Mind_ [1987] ^ Carol II (1893—1953) King of Rumania [1930—1940] While in exile, King Carol told his friend, the British diplomat Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart, that during his reign he had selected fourteen of the brightest Rumanians for special training in the government service. He sent seven to England, and seven to the United States, to study their political and economic systems. 'The seven who went to England were very smart--they all achieved great success in the government in Bucharest,' said Carol. 'What about the seven you sent to the States,' asked Lockhart. 'They were even smarter,' said the king. They stayed there.' --_Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes_ edited by Clifton Fadiman and André Bernard [2000 ed.] ^ We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams. --Jimmy Carter (1924— ) American Democratic statesman, President [1977—1981]. In a speech at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania [27 October 1976]. I have no further use for America. I wouldn't go back there if Jesus Christ was President. --Charlie Chaplin (1889—1977) English film actor and director. Quoted in Leslie Halliwell _Halliwell's Filmgoer's Companion_ [1984]. America is the only country in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization. --Georges Clemenceau (1841—1929) French statesman. In Nigel Rees _Brewer's Famous Quotations_, p. 146 [2006]. Rees adds: "So ascribed to Clemenceau by Hans Bendix in "The Saturday Review of Literature" (1 December 1945). No more substantial attribution appears to exist." America cannot and must not be the world's policeman. We cannot stop all war for all time. But we can stop some wars. We cannot save all women and all children. But we can save many of them. We can't do everything. But we must do what we can do. There are times and places where our leadership can mean the difference between peace and war. --Bill (William Jefferson) Clinton (1946— ) American Democratic statesman and president [1993-2001]. Calling for public support for the stationing of troops in Bosnia, television broadcast [27 November 1995]. I'm a Yankee Doodle Dandy, A Yankee Doodle, do or die; A real live nephew of my Uncle Sam's, Born on the fourth of July. --George M. Cohan (1878—1942) American songwriter, dramatist, and producer. "Yankee Doodle Boy" [1904 song] I came to America tourist Third with a cheque for ten pounds and I leave plus five hundred, a wife, a mandarin coat, a set of diamond studs, a state room and bath, and a decent box for the ferret. That's what everybody comes to America to do and I don't think I've managed badly for a beginner. --Cyril Connolly (1903—1974) English writer. Letter to Noel Blakiston [2 April 1930]. - In British schools in those days American history stopped abruptly with the outbreak of the Revolutionary War, on the principle that if they didn't need us, we didn't need them. But after the First World War, both the national prejudices I had imbibed and the personal memories of "the Yanks" that tended to contradict them began to blur together and fade as the inevitable reaction against Our Gallant Allies set in. Throughout the 1920s, America became known to us as a lurid society of licentious movie stars, ruthless gangsters, a boastful citizenry, and a grasping government called "Uncle Shylock," who was out to bleed old Europe white with demands for war reparations. Like most healthy schoolboys, I had no more social conscience than a puppy; so that while it was proper to defer to one's parents when they bemoaned the money-mad Republic across the seas and contemplated every American import, from canned beef to shirts with collars attached, as typical bits of "shoddy," these horrors paled for me and my friends before the heroics of Lindbergh, Douglas Fairbanks, and Bobby Jones; the country's reputation for beautiful and pliant females; the arrival of Fred and Adele Astaire; and the joys of American jazz. --Alistair Cooke [Alfred Cooke] (1908—2004) British-born American broadcater and journalist. _America_ [1973] But in the wake of the immigrant flood . . . paupers became shopkeepers, and the sons and daughters of peasants bound for centuries to slivers of poor soil turned into clerks and nurses and accountants and schoolteachers and druggists and cab drivers and lawyers and doctors. Looking back on those sheepish legions, we should not pretend that they were ever rollicking characters in a musical comedy. But we should not forget, either, the millions who struggled for a decent and tidy life, and made it, and still do. --Alistair Cooke [Alfred Cooke] (1908—2004) British-born American broadcater and journalist. _America_ [1973] - Here individuals of all nations are melted into a new race of men, whose labors and posterity will one day cause great changes in the world. --Michel Guillaume Jean de Crèvecoeur (1735—1813) French-born American agriculturalist, writer, and diplomat. _Letters from an American Farmer_ [1782] - My mother and father never learned to read. How sad! Oh, they learned to read the Hebrew prayers phonetically, but never understood the words. Ma, you're right, "America, such a wonderful land." Here, you have a chance. On this day I give thanks to both of you for not missing the boat. --Kirk Douglas [Issur Danielovitch] (1916— ) American film actor and producer. _The Ragman's Son_ [1988], Chapter 43 - In thinking of America, I sometimes find myself admiring her bright blue sky — her grand old woods — her fertile fields — her beautiful rivers — her mighty lakes, and star-crowned mountains. But my rapture is soon checked, my joy is soon turned to mourning. When I remember that all is cursed with the infernal spirit of slaveholding, robbery and wrong, — when I remember that with the waters of her noblest rivers, the tears of my brethren are borne to the ocean, disregarded and forgotten, and that her most fertile fields drink daily of the warm blood of my outraged sisters, I am filled with unutterable loathing, and led to reproach myself that any thing could fall from my lips in praise of such a land. America will not allow her children to love her. She seems bent on compelling those who would be her warmest friends, to be her worst enemies. May God give her repentance before it is too late, is the ardent prayer of my heart. I will continue to pray, labor and wait, believing that she cannot always be insensible to the dictates of justice, or deaf to the voice of humanity. --Frederick Douglass [Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey] (c.1818—1895) American abolitionist, reformer, and writer. [1 January 1846 letter to William Lloyd Garrison.] - Newcomers to the United States are struck by the amenities enjoyed by "poor" people. This fact was dramatized in the 1980s when CBS television broadcast a documentary, "People Like Us," intended to show the miseries of the poor during an ongoing recession. The Soviet Union also broadcast the documentary, with a view to embarrassing the Reagan administration. But by the testimony of former Soviet leaders, it had the opposite effect. Ordinary people across the Soviet Union saw that the poorest Americans have TV sets, microwave ovens and cars. They arrived at the same perception that I witnessed in an acquaintance of mine from Bombay who has been unsuccessfully trying to move to the United States. I asked him, "Why are you so eager to come to America?" He replied, "I really want to live in a country where the poor people are fat." --Dinesh D'Souza (1961— ) American author. "10 things to celebrate: Why I'm an anti-anti-American" Americans . . . judge themselves by a higher standard than anyone else. Americans are a self-scrutinizing people: even if they have acted well in a given situation, they are always ready to examine whether they could have acted better. At some subliminal level, everybody knows this. Thus if the Chinese, the Arabs, or the sub-Saharan Africans slaughter ten thousand of their own people, the world utters a collective sigh and resumes its normal business. We sadly expect the Chinese, the Arabs, and the sub-Saharan Africans to do these things. By contrast, if America, in the middle of a war, accidentally bombs a school or a hospital and kills two hundred civilians, there is an immediate uproar and an investigation is launched. What all this demonstrates, of course, is America's evident moral superiority. --Dinesh D'Souza (1961— ) American author. _What's So Great About America_ [2002] - The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children. --Edward VIII (1894—1972) King [1936], afterwards, the Duke of Windsor. In "Look" [5 March 1937]. America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for. . . . It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to be large. --E.M. [Edward Morgan] Forster (1879—1970) English novelist. _Two Cheers for Democracy_ [1951] What distinguishes America is not its greater or lesser goodness, but simply its unrivalled power to do that which is good or bad. --Mark Frankland (1934— ) Foreign correspondent and author. ^ Benjamin Franklin (1706—1790), American statesman, diplomat, scientist, and inventor. When Franklin was in France, he frequently used to play chess with the elderly Duchess of Bourbon. On one occasion Franklin put her king in check and took it. 'We do not take kings so,' remonstrated the duchess. 'We do in America,' replied Franklin. --_Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes_ edited by Clifton Fadiman and André Bernard [2000 ed.] ^ ^^ At the beginning of the twentieth century, the United States was already a rich and powerful country, stretching its muscles, reaching out toward an overseas empire. By the end of the century, it was much richer, and much more powerful; the superpower in the world. It had come out on top in two world wars (there were more ambiguous outcomes in some smaller, less glorious wars). Most of its rivals had faded away. When Queen Victoria died, in 1901, the sun never set on the British empire; it controlled a quarter of the world. By 2000 the British empire had been reduced to a pitiful handful of islands; China swallowed Hong Kong in 1997, the last significant outpost of empire; the population of the bits and fragments left over from imperial days (Bermuda, Gibraltar, the Falkland Islands, and others) would hardly fill a football stadium. All the other empires, too, had crumbled into dust. Two world wars and the winds of change stripped France of her glory; her African and Asian colonies were long since gone. She too still had an island here and there, and tattered remnants of neocolonialism in French-speaking parts of Africa. Germany lost its empire after the First World War, and had to disgorge its conquests after the Second. The First World War put an end to the Austro-Hungarian empire, and the Second World War put paid to the empire the Japanese had cobbled together. Dutch and Portuguese possessions became independent after World War II; the last Portuguese outpost, Macao, passed to China at the end of 1999. The most recent empire to go was the Soviet Union, which never admitted it was an empire; it collapsed like a house of cards in 1989. At the end of the century, the Russian bear was a sick, limping, lumbering mess. China loomed on the horizon; still something of an empire (certainly, the Tibetans thought so), vast, overpopulated; but so far not a serious rival to American rule in the world. Economically, the United States was the world power, too. Some countries were almost as rich, or even richer, in terms of dollars per capita; but most of these were small, lucky places, awash in oil, like Brunei or Kuwait, or shrewd little statelets, like Singapore. Even the countries that were both big and rich, like Germany and Japan, were far behind the U.S. in total gross national product — the United States, with its GNP in the trillions of dollars, was more than twice as mighty in terms of sheer wealth as its nearest rival; and in military and cultural terms, other countries were absolutely nowhere. That left the United States on top of the heap, pretty much alone; it spent more, consumed more, mattered more than any other country; and its movies, its television programs, its popular culture—even its language—resonated all over the world. From North Pole to South, everybody seemed to know America—its blue jeans, its movie stars, its rock-and-roll music, its hamburgers and Coca Cola. American speech was the language of mass culture; it was despised, resented, admired, imitated, feared, and adored, sometimes all at once, and sometimes by the same people. Its politicians strutted and congratulated themselves on American achievements; whether America's preeminence was the result of God, virtue, or economic policies, or as accidental as winning the lottery or discovering oil, its place in the world was undeniable. Will the American hegemony last until 2100? Probably not. Will it shrivel like the British empire, or in some other way? Only time can tell; and time has nothing to say at the moment. --Lawrence M. Friedman (1930— ) _American Law in the 20th Century_ [2002] Ch. 19 "Law: An American Export" pp. 572-573 ^^ ^ America at the beginning of the twenty-first century is rich beyond all reckoning. The Communist superpower with which it grappled for half a century lies shattered at America's feet, begging for American aid, technology, and investment....The United States leads the world in learning and the arts, in science and technology, in business and finance. Its shops are piled high with fresh plums in December and a hundred varieties of ice cream in August. At the flick of a switch, Americans can listen to the Brandenburg Concertos played more finely than they ever were for the Elector of Brandenburg himself; with a flash of plastic they can board a jet to Bali or Buenos Aires; with a tap of a key they can order any book in print delivered to their doorstep the next morning....And unlike any previous great power—unlike Victorian Britain, unlike the caliphs of Baghdad, unlike imperial Rome—Americans can see nobody and nothing on the horizon who would dare to take, who could even imagine taking, all this away from them. --David Frum (1960— ) Canadian-born Conservative author. _How We Got Here_ [2000] Those who find America an especially violent and oppressive country ("Amerika") have apparently never read the history of England or France, Germany or Russia, Indonesia or Burundi, Turkey or Uganda. --Eugene D. Genovese (1930— ) American historian. No society can survive, no civilization can survive, with 12-year-olds having babies, with 15-year-olds killing each other, with 17-year-olds dying of AIDS, with 18-year-olds getting diplomas they can't read. --Newt Gingrich (1943— ) American politician. _The Times_ [9 February 1995] America, you have it better than our continent, the old one. --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749—1832) German poet, novelist, and playwright. _Almanac for the Muses_ [1831] - Now, the fact that we are not an empire, but could be one if we wanted to, confuses the dickens of all sorts of people. Indeed, some people find the idea so confusing they willfully refuse to believe it and just go on insisting we are an empire the way the guy in the Monty Python skit just kept insisting the parrot wasn't dead.[...] Europeans who did have colonies and who did invade both their neighbors and distant lands for material gain—and, to be fair, for more ideologically complex motives—have a hard time computing that America isn't behaving the way they did. They think they've evolved past us, that they are on the same road as us and are simply a few miles ahead of us on the path to enlightenment. What they can't grasp is that America took a different fork in the road a couple of centuries ago. We can argue about who's on the high road or the low road now, but we're on different roads. And judging from the fact that they keep running into ditches, forcing us to be their AAA service, I think they can't tell us much we need to know. Calling us an empire, Hitler-like, and the rest are simply examples of Europeans misapplying categories from their past onto the United States. America isn't the European past, fellas, America will be the European future, if you're lucky. --Jonah Goldberg (1969— ) American conservative commentator and author. "Not Getting America: Misunderstanding the U.S.", http://www.nationalreview.com/goldberg/goldberg092402.asp - - Go West, young man, and grow up with the country. --Horace Greeley (1811—1872) American newspaper editor. _Hints toward Reforms_ [1850] & note: Go West, young man, go West! --John L.B. Soule (1815—1891) American journalist, in "Terra Haute {Indiana} Express" [1851]. - Ours is the only country deliberately founded on a good idea. --John Gunther (1901—1970) American author. _Inside USA_ [1947] This land is your land, this land is my land, From California to the New York Island. From the redwood forest to the Gulf Stream waters This land was made for you and me. --Woody Guthrie (1912—1967) American folksinger and songwriter. "This Land is Your Land" [1956 song] The Louisiana Purchase, made 200 years ago this month, nearly doubled the size of the United States. By any measure, it was one of the most colossal land transactions in history, involving an area larger than today's France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Germany, Holland, Switzerland and the British Isles combined. All or parts of 15 Western states would eventually be carved from its nearly 830,000 square miles, which stretched from the Gulf of Mexico to Canada, and from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains. And the price, $15 million, or about four cents an acre, was a breathtaking bargain. "Let the Land rejoice," Gen. Horatio Gates, a prominent New York state legislator, told President Thomas Jefferson when details of the deal reached Washington, D.C. "For you have bought Louisiana for a song." --Joseph Harris, "Westward Ho!" in _Smithsonian_ [April 2003] [America is] still the best country for the common man—white or black . . . if he can't make it here he won't make it anywhere else. --Eric Hoffer (1902—1983) American longshoreman, philosopher, and author who received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1982. We are the standard-bearers in the only really authentic revolution, the democratic revolution against tyrannies. Our strength is not to be measured by our military capacity alone, by our industry, or by our technology. We will be remembered, not for the power of our weapons, but for the power of our compassion, our dedication to human welfare. --Hubert H. Humphrey (1911—1978) 38th vice-president of the United States [1965—1969] and liberal senator [1949-1965 & 1971—1978]. _The Cause is Mankind_ [1964] Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none. --Thomas Jefferson (1743—1826) American statesman and president [1801—1809]. Inaugural Address [4 March 180I], in Saul K. Padover _Jefferson_ [1942] p.293. Sir, they [the American colonists] are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for any thing we allow them short of hanging. --Samuel Johnson (1709—1784) English poet, critic, and lexicographer. Quoted in James Boswell _The Life of Samuel Johnson_ [1791]. - The United States continues to elude me. If I understand it at all, it is through the strange profession that has shaped my life, the study of war. War is repugnant to the people of United States; yet it is war that has made their nation, and it is through their power to wage war that they dominate the world. Americans are proficient at war in the same way that they are proficient at work. It is a task, sometimes a duty. Americans have worked at war since the seventeenth century, to protect themselves from the Indians, to win their independence from George III, to make themselves one country, to win the whole of their continent, to extinguish autocracy and dictatorship in the world outside. It is not their favoured form of work. Left to themselves, Americans build, cultivate, bridge, dam, canalise, invent, teach, manufacture, think, write, lock themselves in struggle with the eternal challenges that man has chosen to confront, and with an intensity not known elsewhere on the globe. Bidden to make war their work, Americans shoulder the burden with intimidating purpose. There is, I have said, an American mystery, the nature of which I only begin to perceive. If I were obliged to define it, I would say it is the ethos of work as an end in itself. War is a form of work, and America makes war, however reluctantly, however unwillingly, in a particularly workmanlike way. I do not love war; but I love America. --John Keegan (1934— ) English military historian. - Vietnam presumably taught us that the United States could not serve as the world's policeman; it should also have taught us the dangers of trying to be the world's midwife to democracy when the birth is scheduled to take place under conditions of guerrilla war. --Jeane Kirkpatrick (1926—2006) American Conservative political scientist, professor, author, and the first woman to serve as the American Ambassador to the United Nations. _Dictatorship and Double Standards_ [1979] Perhaps you have to be born an Englishwoman to realize how much attention American men shower on women and how tremendously considerate all the nice ones among them are of a woman's wishes. --Gertrude Lawrence (1898—1952) English stage actress. _A Star Danced_ [1945] Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. (Inscription on the Statue of Liberty.) --Emma Lazarus (1849—1887) American poet. "The New Colossus" [1883] Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country. --Sinclair Lewis (1885—1951) American novelist and playwright. In an interview in Berlin, Germany [29 December 1930]. 'There won't be any revolution in America,' said Isadore. Nikitin agreed. 'The people are all too clean. They spend all the time changing their shirts and washing themselves. You can't feel fierce and revolutionary in a bathroom.' --Eric Linklater (1899—1974) Scottish novelist. _Juan in America_ [1931], bk 5, pt 3 - I will go as far as anyone in world service, but the first step to world service is the maintenance of the United States. You may call me selfish if you will, conservative or reactionary, or use any other harsh adjective you see fit to apply, but an American I was born, an American I have remained all my life. I can never be anything else but an American, and I must think of the United States first, and when I think of the United States first in an arrangement like this I am thinking of what is best for the world, for if the United States fails the best hopes of mankind fail with it. I have never had but one allegiance—I cannot divide it now. I have loved but one flag and I cannot share that devotion and give affection to the mongrel banner invented for a league.....National I must remain, and in that way I, like all other Americans can render the amplest service to the world. The United States is the world's best hope, but if you fetter her in the interests and intrigues of Europe, you will destroy her power for good and endanger her very existence.....Strong, generous and confident, she has nobly served mankind. --Henry Cabot Lodge Sr. (1850—1924) Republican U.S. senator [1893—1924]. Speech before the Senate on the League of Nations [12 August 1919]. - We shall not make Britain's mistake. Too wise to try to govern the world, we shall merely own it. --Denny Ludwell, c. 1935 Either some Caesar or Napoleon will seize the reins of government with a strong hand, or your republic will be as fearfully plundered and laid waste by barbarians in the twentieth century as the Roman Empire was in the fifth; with this difference, that the Huns and Vandals who ravaged the Roman Empire came from without and that your Huns and Vandals will have been engendered within your own country by your own institutions ... Your constitution is all sail and no anchor. --Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800—1859) English politician and historian. To Henry Stephens Randall (American politician) [23 May 1857], in Thomas Pinney (ed.) _The Letters of Thomas Babington Macauley_ [1981] v. 6, p. 96. The immense popularity of American movies abroad demonstrates that Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof. --Mary McCarthy (1912—1989) American novelist. _On the Contrary_ [1961] The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation. --William McKinley (1843—1901) 25th President of the United States from 1897 until his assasination in 1901. Settled by the people of all nations, all nations may claim her for their own. You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world ... We are not a nation, so much as a world. --Herman Melville (1819—1891) American novelist and poet. _Redburn: His First Voyage_ [1849] One man prefers the Republic because it pays better than Bulgaria. Another because it has laws to keep him sober and his daughter chaste. Another because the Woolworth Building is higher than the cathedral at Chartres. Another because, living here, he can read the New York _Evening Journal_. Another because there is a warrant out for him somewhere else. Me, I like it because it amuses me to my taste. I never get tired of the show. It is worth every cent it costs. --H.L. (Henry Louis) Mencken (1880—1956) American journalist and literary critic. "On Being an American", _Prejudices: Third Series_ [1922] America is far from perfect. It has blundered through arrogance, selfishness, cynicism, and a great deal through ignorance. But without America, the history of humanity in the 20th century would have been infinitely more tragic. --Dominique Moisi Adjunct director of the French Institute for International Relations in Paris. I was going to stay on the three million miles of bent and narrow rural American two-lane, the roads to Podunk and Toonerville. Into the sticks, the boondocks, the burgs, backwaters, jerkwaters, wide-spots-in-the- road, the don't-blink-or-you'll-miss-it-towns. Into those places where you say, 'My God! What if you lived here!' --William Least Heat Moon [Bill Trogdon] (1939— ) American author. _Blue Highways_ [1982] America was discovered accidentally by a great seaman who was looking for something else; when discovered it was not wanted; and most of the exploration for the next fifty years was done in the hope of getting through or around it. America was named after a man who discovered no part of the New World. History is like that, very chancy. --Samuel Eliot Morison (1887—1976) American historian, author and winner of two Pulitzer Prizes. _The Oxford History of the American People_ [1965], ch. 2 When Abraham Lincoln was murdered The one thing that interested Matthew Arnold Was that the assassin shouted in Latin As he lept on the stage. This convinced Matthew That there was still hope for America. --Christopher Morley (1890—1957) American journalist, novelist, and poet. _Points of View_ The United States is the greatest single achievement of European civilization. --Robert B. 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