Culture Quote by Albert Bushnell Hart

The Founding Fathers gave birth to a new type of nation.

— Chad Wolf

When old settlers say 'One has to understand the country,' what they mean is, 'You have to get used to our ideas about the…

— Doris Lessing

“The form of colonialism that the Indigenous peoples of North America have experienced was modern from the beginning: the expansion of European corporations, backed…

— Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

In comparison with other men of their time, the Americans were distinguished by the possession of new political and social ideas, which were destined…

— Albert Bushnell Hart

Of all the potential perils to the new American republic, the prospect of concentrated power . . . troubled the intellectual leaders of the…

— Joe Conason

“Nationalism always preserved this initial intimate loyalty to the government and never quite lost its function of preserving a precarious balance between nation and…

— Hannah Arendt

Native Americans are the original inhabitants of the land that now constitutes the United States. They have helped develop the fundamental principles of freedom…

— Joe Baca

A second characteristic of our time is the prevalence of nationalism. This is still spreading, affecting new communities, more peripheral regions and so-called backward…

— Emily Greene Balch

Traditionalists like me believe the USA has become strong because of its core values, the freedom, individual responsibility and institutions like traditional marriage, which…

— Bill O'Reilly

Current nationalism is merely the affirmation of the right of colonial elites to repeat historyand follow the road travelled by the rich toward the…

— Ivan Illich

Our rich and varied cultural heritage has a profound power to help build our nation

— Nelson Mandela

The categories within which the colonists thought about the social foundations of politics were inheritances from classical antiquity, reshaped by seventeenth century English thought.

— Bernard Bailyn