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...Great Brit- ain, and a vigorous continental spirit of independence against European intervention be aroused all over the American continent; that this... ...his despatches for revision and amendment with- out a murmur. The war with European nations was no 38 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol One longe... ...nt the recognition of the Southern Confederacy as an independent nation by European powers; that, slavery being abhorred by the moral sense of civiliz... ...; that, slavery being abhorred by the moral sense of civilized mankind, no European government would dare to offer so gross an insult to the public op... ...ise him which they have since never ceased to do—as one of the greatest of Americans and the best of men. 56 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol On... ...pular govern- ment, as illustrated by the life of the most American of all Americans. I therefore offer no apology for asking your attention to Abraha...

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...e patriots of nationality who would have us believe that the miscellany of European squat- ters in the T ransvaal are one nation and those in Cape Col... ...e which needs exposure. It is known that the birth- rate is falling in all European countries—a fall which has a very direct relation to a rise in the... ...strike out the new phrase in a fine burst of ignorant discovery. There are Americans in particular who are amazingly apt at this sort of thing. They t... ...rica who will murder and misunderstand the language against any eleven the Americans may select. Of course there is a natural and necessary growth and... ...he real and steady development of American scientific men is masked to the European observer, and it must be greatly hampered by the copious silliness... ...llow-citizens. That is the cardinal fact in life for the great majority of Americans who respond to the stirrings of ambition. If in Britain capacity ... ...prince, too often some poor creature great only by convention—and what the Americans do I do not know, unless they use a Boss. There are many occasion... ... sets that would help the common British to a clearer idea of America, and Americans to a real- ization that the British Islands are something more th... ... of generations could have been avoided!” Our time has come, and we of the European races are making our struggle in our turn. Slavery still fights a ...

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...rough the influence of Democracy in America. Each succeeding generation of Americans will find in the pure and impartial reflections of De T ocquevill... ... till M. de Tocqueville said, “This gradual and continuous progress of the European race toward the Rocky Mountains has the so- lemnity of a provident... ...d courage with which they are expressed. Though not originally written for Americans, “Democ- racy in America” must always remain a work of engrossing... ...ppears to me beyond a doubt that sooner or later we shall arrive, like the Americans, at an almost complete equality of conditions. But I do not concl... ... ever be necessarily led to draw the same political consequences which the Americans have derived from a similar social or- ganization. I am far from ... ...f the continent belongs are gathering almost in secrecy together. When the Europeans first landed on the shores of the West Indies, and afterwards on ... ... “History of the American Indians.” 31 Tocqueville neither white like the Europeans, nor yellow like most of the Asiatics, nor black like the negroes... ...lthough they are ignorant and poor, are equal and free. At the period when Europeans first came among them the natives of North America were ignorant ... ... were hidden in former times among the wild forests of the New World.* The Europeans produced no great impression when they landed upon the shores of ...

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...anation of the people or not, Judge Douglas, with the Republicans and some Americans, had greatly the argument against the Admin- istration; and while... ... Judge Douglas’s friends furnished twenty , to add to which there were six Americans and ninety-four Republicans. I do not say that I am precisely acc... ...ne other point. Judge Douglas has a very affec- tionate leaning toward the Americans and Old Whigs. Last evening, in a sort of weeping tone, he descri... ... his construction of the Declaration last year, he said it only meant that Americans in America were equal to Englishmen in England. Then, when I poin... ... he reconstructs his construction. In his last speech he tells us it meant Europeans. I press him a little further, and ask if it meant to include the...

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...im a saying which somebody had related of an American savage, who, when an European was expatiating on all the advantages of money, put this question:... ... a man to their tables who has stood in the pillory.’ Johnson attacked the Americans with intem- perate vehemence of abuse. I said something in their ... ... said so harsh a thing. Johnson. Because, Sir, you made me angry about the Americans.’ Boswell. ‘But why did you not take your revenge directly?’ John... ...d to go to America; Johnson. ‘I hope he will go to America.’ Boswell. ‘The Americans don’t want oratory.’ Johnson. ‘But we can want Sheridan.’ On Mond...

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...choly place. This was partly owing to the despondent tone in which so many Americans then spoke of their own affairs. It was not that the Northern men... ...ke up arms to vindicate the sacred principle of liberty. Few Englishmen or Americans will deny that the source of government is the consent of the gov... ...n, or soon will be, exterminated—polished off the face of creation, as the Americans say—which fate must, I should say, in the long run attend all non... ... prevailing. By colored men I alluded to mulattoes, and all those of mixed European and African blood. The word “colored,” in the States, seems to app... ...ir of substantial, civic dignity. It must, however, be remembered that the Americans live much more in towns than we do. All with us that are rich and... ...tates- men, and sends to them messages as though from an altitude which no European politician had ever reached. At home he has affected the Prime Min... ...hich seems to be regarded as the one thing needed in the cabinets of other European nations. This has been a great blessing to the United States, but ... ...e, or those which everybody wishes to have. The total amount of postage on European letters, i.e. letters passing between the States and Europe, in th... ...n the last year, as to which accounts were kept between Washington and the European post-offices, was £275,000. Of this over £150,000 was on letters f...

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...ory of this development and arrive at any other conclusion. The French and Americans can laugh at our aeroplanes, the Ger- mans are ten years ahead of... ...lf and dominate the tailor- ing of the world, while Brazilians, Frenchmen, Americans and Germans fly. That we are hopelessly behindhand in aeronautics... ... return in the autumn. Again, there is a stream of thousands of prosperous Americans to summer in Europe. Compared with any European country, the whol... ...f thousands of prosperous Americans to summer in Europe. Compared with any European country, the whole popula- tion of the United States is fluid. Equ... ...ts wholly or partially across the frontier. In every locality of a Western European country countless people are found delocalised, uninterested in th... ...osophical thought, or see many good plays or under- stand the contemporary European mind, German. And yet it would cost amazingly little to get every ... ... development if the thing is to be achieved. Now that, I admit, is, as the Americans say, a large propo- sition. But we are living in a time of more a... ...o maintain one during that conflict of preparation which is at present the European substitute for actual hostilities. It consumes. It produces nothin... ...pon it peculiarly urgent is the manifestly temporary nature of the present European situation and the fact that within quite a small number of years o...

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...in America, and would have made them appear vener- able in the eyes of the Europeans, were it possible for man- kind to respect virtue when revealed i... ...in his native country, went back to Penn- sylvania. His own people and the Americans received him with tears of joy, as though he had been a father wh... ...nt an uncertain evil. The English, on the other side, call the rest of the Europeans cowardly and unnatural. Cowardly, because they are afraid of putt... ... not be corrected might at least be pointed out. By this means, as all the Europeans read those works, they would teach them our language in its utmos...

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...aration faxed early in 1998 to an Arabic-language newspaper in London. Few Americans had noticed it. The fax had been sent from thousands of miles awa... ... on these themes. 2 He claimed it was more important for Mus- lims to kill Americans than to kill other infidels.“It is far better for anyone to kill ... ...that the worst thieves in the world today and the worst terrorists are the Americans. Nothing could stop you except perhaps retalia- tion in kind.We d... ...wer:“We are certain that we shall—with the grace of Allah—prevail over the Americans. ” He went on to warn that “If the present injustice contin- ues ... ...oment. How did Bin Ladin—with his call for the indiscrimi- nate killing of Americans—win thousands of followers and some degree of approval from milli... ... contacted Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah on July 5. Hadley apparently called European coun- terparts, while Clarke worked with senior officials in the G... ...thern Philippines to Indonesia • West Africa, including Nigeria and Mali • European cities with expatriate Muslim communities, especially cities 366 T... ...nce that the Spanish al Qaeda cell, led by Imad Barkat Yarkas and al Qaeda European financier Mohammed Galeb Kalaje Zouaydi, provided any funding to s... ...nly get worse.The Muslims will for- ever be oppressed and dominated by the Europeans and Jews. ”The prime minister’s argument was that the Muslims sho...

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...ese limitations, I have ever consid- ered my family as American by origin, European by emigra- tion, and restored to its paternal soil by the mutation... ...but I am inclined to think that much of it is, and, as I am now writing to Americans, and of French people, I see no particular rea- son why the fact ... ...ng American, I suppose I am entitled to the rights of citizenship. Are you European, also?” “No, ma’am; I am native and to the ‘manor born,’ as the mo... ...emned, without mercy. I confess I was surprised at hearing the size of the Americans sneered at by Pocket-Handkerchiefs, as I remember to have read th... ...rue, also, madame; but such is not the rule, I think. Both the English and Americans seem to me handsomer, as a whole, than my own countrywomen.” Now,... ...n to run a brilliant career in the circles of New Y ork, on the faith of a European reputa- tion. Alas! there is in pocket-handkerchief nature a dispo... ...chief in her. She de- termined to “make capital” out of the affair, as the Americans say, in shop-keeping slang. “What is the ‘yes,’ of which you spea...

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...n creasing. These libraries have improved the general conver sation of the Americans, made the common tradesmen and farmers as intelligent as most g... ...brave man, and might prob ably have made a figure as a good officer in some European war. But he had too much self confidence, too high an opin ion ... ...h an opin ion of the validity of regular troops, and too mean a one of both Americans and Indians. George Croghan, our Indian interpreter, join’d him... ...hia, where the inhabitants could protect him. This whole transaction gave us Americans the first suspicion that our exalted ideas of the prowess of Br... ...ent state of affairs in America and discourse thereupon, he said to me: “You Americans have wrong ideas of the nature of your constitution; you conten...

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... history, and religion, but of the growth and liberties of art. Of the two Americans, Whitman and Thoreau, each is the type of some- thing not so much... ...ght them forth, an author would require a large habit of life among modern Americans. As for Yoshida, I have already disclaimed respon- sibility; it w... ...ut nightfall. At no period within history can travel have presented to any European creature the same face of awe and terror as to these courageous Ja... ... women, capable and incapable, played a conspicuous part upon the stage of European history; and yet their rule, whatever may have been the opinion of...