America Quote by Harry S. Truman

Sweden is the home of my ancestors, and I have reserved a special place in my heart for Sweden.

— Anonymous

Our immigrants joined a settler culture, Anglo-Saxon and Protestant, that demanded assimilation to its norms.

— Ross Douthat

I think that's what makes many Swedes jealous of immigrant groups. You have a culture, an identity, a history, something that brings you together.…

— Mona Sahlin

Never since the dawn of human history, as far as I can find out, did people long settled in any region give a friendly…

— Dorothy Canfield Fisher

When the first settlers landed on American shores, the difficulties in finding or making shelter must have seemed ironical as well as almost unbearable.

— Alice Morse Earle

Settling other people's land is an American tradition.

— Ariel Gore

When Europeans arrived on this continent, they blew it with the Native Americans. They plowed over them, taking as much as they could of…

— Mary Pipher

The Swedes got there first - their dramas were always the darkest and most upsetting, and we used to love them when I was…

— Kim Bodnia

The Achilles Heel of the Americas was the lack of cultural confidence typical of new settlers.

— Arthur Erickson

“America has nothing to fear from these newcomers, that they have come here for the same reason that families came here 150 years ago—all…

— Barack Obama

The richness of America is that we are diverse. We're not Sweden. We're not Norway. We are a great American experiment. And as soon…

— Cory Booker

Sweden is a small country and, well, our family's pretty prominent in that world, I guess. And I really didn't like the sound of…

— Bill Skarsgard