America Quote by Chuck Norris

As our farms and factories grew more efficient, they accounted for a shrinking share of our economy. And the more productive agriculture and manufacturing…

— Rutger Bregman

Since the 1960s, we have seen the failure of the melting pot ideology. This ideology suggested that different historical, cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds could…

— Edward Said

America thrived in the 20th century because we made high school free. We sent a generation to college. We cultivated the most educated workforce…

— Barack Obama

In grade school I was taught that the United States is a melting pot. People from all over the world come here for freedom…

— Jeff Hawkins

“As with Britain, growth in the United States started with agriculture. Then, steel, railroads, automobiles, electricity, consumer appliances, telecommunications and chemicals were among the…

— Edward A. Hudson

America is no longer the melting pot it used to be. It has now become a tossed salad of foreigners that arrive to our…

— Jay Severin

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

— Joe Conason

America had an emphasis on the individual and so education became available for everyone.

— John Glenn

America gave the world the notion of the melting pot - an alchemical cooking device wherein diverse ethnic and religious groups voluntarily mix together,…

— Ivan Krastev

People used to think that more population was bad for growth. In this view, people are stomachs - they eat, leaving less for everyone…

— Alex Tabarrok

The peoples of civilization see their wretchedness increase in direct proportion to the advance of industry

— Charles Fourier

In the modern world, we Americans are the old inhabitants. We first had political freedom, high industrial production, an economy of abundance.

— Paul Goodman