American life Quote by Bruce Springsteen

“Eisenhower was the living symbol of what felt in 1969 like an easier age, when greatness was an American birthright, when the torrents of…

— Nancy Gibbs; Michael Duffy

“We seemed about to enter an Olympian age in this country, brains and intellect harnessed to great force, the better to define a common…

— David Halberstam

“America was exhausted. The libertarians had made freedom unbearable, the evangelicals had made faith unbearable, the social justice movement had made equality unbearable, the…

— Scott Alexander

“The generations of lives, experiences, and voices of marginalized and silenced Americans offer an array of diverse interpretations of U.S. history that have largely…

— Clarence Lusane

“For fairness and loyalty, however important to the head, were issues that could seldom be squared in the human heart, at the deepest depths…

— Richard Russo

“It seemed to me then—and to be honest, sir, seems to me still—that America was engaged only in posturing. As a society, you were…

— Mohsin Hamid

“That was the best of the American spirit, I thought--having the audacity to believe despite all the evidence to the contrary that we could…

— Barack Obama

“You disintegrated into the recriminations, the headlines, the pictures. You scattered yourself into proofs, warnings, suspicions, arrests. You rode out into the dark outrage…

— Jonathan Lee

“Thus did a handful of rapacious citizens come to control all that was worth controlling in America. Thus was the savage and stupid and…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“An America that asks what it owes its most vulnerable citizens is improved and humane. An America that looks away is ignoring not just…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“America wasn’t perfect, but nothing touched by human hands could be. There was greed, corruption, selfishness, pettiness, hatred. But there were good things too.…

— wildbow

“It seemed to me then - and to be honest, sir, seems to me still - that America was engaged only in posturing. As…

— Mohsin Hamid