Address to Congress (1945)
Kontext: Today, America has become one of the most powerful forces for good on earth. We must keep it so. We have achieved a world leadership which does not depend solely upon our military and naval might.
We have learned to fight with other nations in common defense of our freedom. We must now learn to live with other nations for our mutual good. We must learn to trade more with other nations so that there may be — for our mutual advantage — increased production, increased employment and better standards of living throughout the world.
May we Americans all live up to our glorious heritage.
In that way, America may well lead the world to peace and prosperity.
— Victor Davis Hanson American military historian, essayist, university professor 1953
2010s, America: History's Exception (2016)
— Ann Brashares, buch Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood
Quelle: Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood
— Mohammad Reza Pahlavi Shah of Iran 1919 - 1980
Shah of Iran state visit to the USA, 1961 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1a5TAepYXs,
Interviews
— George W. Bush 43rd President of the United States 1946
2000s, 2006, State of the Union (January 2006)
— Clement Attlee Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1883 - 1967
Address to the United States Congress (13 November 1945), quoted in The Times (14 November 1945), p. 4
1940s
— Philip Roth American novelist 1933 - 2018
Comparing Charles Lindbergh's leadership of an "America First" movement with that of Donald Trump, in responses to being asked about foreseeing an America such as now exists in his earlier writings, including his alternate-history novel The Plot Against America (2004) where Lindbergh defeated FDR for the presidency in 1940, as quoted in "No Longer Writing, Philip Roth Still Has Plenty to Say" by Charles Mcgrath, in The New York Times (16 January 2018) https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/16/books/review/philip-roth-interview.html
Kontext: No one I know of has foreseen an America like the one we live in today. No one (except perhaps the acidic H. L. Mencken, who famously described American democracy as “the worship of jackals by jackasses”) could have imagined that the 21st-century catastrophe to befall the U. S. A., the most debasing of disasters, would appear not, say, in the terrifying guise of an Orwellian Big Brother but in the ominously ridiculous commedia dell’arte figure of the boastful buffoon. How naïve I was in 1960 to think that I was an American living in preposterous times! How quaint! But then what could I know in 1960 of 1963 or 1968 or 1974 or 2001 or 2016? … However prescient The Plot Against America might seem to you, there is surely one enormous difference between the political circumstances I invent there for the U. S. in 1940 and the political calamity that dismays us so today. It’s the difference in stature between a President Lindbergh and a President Trump. Charles Lindbergh, in life as in my novel, may have been a genuine racist and an anti-Semite and a white supremacist sympathetic to Fascism, but he was also — because of the extraordinary feat of his solo trans-Atlantic flight at the age of 25 — an authentic American hero 13 years before I have him winning the presidency. … Trump, by comparison, is a massive fraud, the evil sum of his deficiencies, devoid of everything but the hollow ideology of a megalomaniac.
— Jeremy Clarkson English broadcaster, journalist and writer 1960
"Flood that released America's demons", The Sun, September 10, 2005
— Donald J. Trump 45th President of the United States of America 1946
Tweet by @realDonaldTrump https://www.snopes.com/trump-uk-terrorism/ (20 October 2017)
2010s, 2017, October
— Roger Federer Swiss tennis player 1981
Jim Courier, former world No.1, while commentating on Australia's Channel Seven in 2007 http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200701/25/eng20070125_344854.html
— Huey P. Newton Co-founder of the Black Panther Party 1942 - 1989
From "In Defense of Self-defense" I (June 20, 1967)
To Die For The People
Kontext: The blood, sweat, tears, and suffering of Black people are the foundations of the wealth and power of the United States of America. We were forced to build America, and if forced to, we will tear it down. The immediate result of this destruction will be suffering and bloodshed. But the end result will be the perpetual peace for all mankind.
— Saul Bellow Canadian-born American writer 1915 - 2005
"Cousins," from Him With His Foot in His Mouth and Other Stories (1984), p. 263
General sources
— Charles A. Kupchan American university teacher 1958
From the preface to the 2002 Knopf Edition
The End of the American Era (2002)
Kontext: As a matter of urgency, America needs to begin to prepare itself and the rest of the world for this uncertain future. To wait until American dominance is already gone would be to squander the enormous opportunity that comes with primacy. America must devise a grand strategy for the transition to a world of multiple power centers now, while it still has the luxury of doing so. This is the central challenge of The End of the American Era.
— Vladimir Lenin Russian politician, led the October Revolution 1870 - 1924
The Results and Significance of the U.S. Presidential Elections https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1912/nov/09.htm (November 1912)
1910s
— Mahendra Chaudhry Fijian politician 1942
Message to the California Fiji Festival 2005
— J. S. Holliday American historian 1924 - 2006
The West (1996)
— Friedrich Nietzsche, buch Menschliches, Allzumenschliches
I.59
Human, All Too Human (1878)
— John McCain politician from the United States 1936 - 2018
Second Presidential Debate http://www.nationalinterest.org/Article.aspx?id=19990 (8 October 2008)
2000s, 2008
— John F. Kerry politician from the United States 1943
May 27, 2004 http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/27/politics/campaign/27CND-KERR.html?ex=1089864000&en=d7e191761ad35943&ei=5070&hp
