If you stand for something you will have people for you and people against you. But if you stand for nothing you will have nobody for you and nobody against you.
I write in the most distressingly slow way in terms of punctuation and grammar.
Nobody has a magic lamp which can tell you in advance whether what you say will be effective in persuading an audience.
Speaking up for America has become a lonely ordeal.
America's critics can be heard everywhere. It is too much in love with money - worshipping the god of the marketplace, the golden calf. It has too much money, seven of the top 10 banks, eight of the top 10 companies etc. It is too stingy, giving away less of its wealth than other countries. It is vulgar, a rich barbarian.
True Americanism is practical idealism. Its aims, instead of being materialistic and mechanical, are idealistic to the point of being Utopian. In this way, the U.S. can provide and express ideals that strike a chord in humans everywhere - a declaration of independence on behalf of all the peoples of the world.
