American Privately Built

Famous quotes containing the words american, privately and/or built:

“Give me this day a faith not personal
As follows: The American people fully armed
With assurance policies, righteous and harmed,
Battle the world of which they’re not at all.”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)

“Rape is a culturally fostered means of suppressing women. Legally we say we deplore it, but mythically we romanticize and perpetuate it, and privately we excuse and overlook it.”
—Victoria Billings (b. 1945)

“Let us wander where we will, the universe is built round about us, and we are central still.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)