"Every effort to confine Americanism to a single pattern, to constrain it to a single formula, is disloyalty to everything that is valid in Americanism."

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Source : "Who is Loyal to America?". "Harper's Magazine", Vol. 195, No. 1168, 1947.

Henry Steele Commager

#Government Quotes #Effort Quotes #Patterns Quotes

“Of course, growing up, I was a big fan of rap so that was something that I got into. I was a fan of a lot of artists. You can be a fan, but at the same time, you gotta carve your own swagger and carve out your own style.”
“From blood banking to the modern subway, from jazz to social justice, the contributions of African Americans have shaped and molded and influenced our national culture and our national character.”
“The real risks for any artist are taken in pushing the work to the limits of what is possible, in the attempt to increase the sum of what it is possible to think. Books become good when they go to this edge and risk falling over it -when they endanger the artist by reason of what he has, or has not, artistically dared.”
“I'm just looking always for characters that change, because I want to get better, as an actor and as a person.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“It echoed loudly within him because he was hollow at the core.”
“One stands, in fact, in awe of the Constitution of the United States, though it is an idea and not quite a reality.”
“Utopia lies at the horizon. When I draw nearer by two steps, it retreats two steps. If I proceed ten steps forward, it swiftly slips ten steps ahead. No matter how far I go, I can never reach it. What, then, is the purpose of utopia? It is to cause us to advance.”
“Honor's a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.”

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