Ludwig von Mises Quotes

That which is to be most desired in America is oneness and not sameness. Sameness is the worst thing that could happen to the people of this country. To make all people the same would lower their quality, but oneness would raise it.

The American people ... have a stake in con-conformity, for they know that the American genius is non-conformist.

American people have the ability to laugh at themselves. It is one of the things that makes this country the great country that it is.

Here's an idea: How about just 'Americans?' That has a nice ring to it, if you ask me. Placing undue emphasis on our 'separateness' is a step backward. Bring back the melting pot.

I think it's particularly a distinctively American concept that resonates with American culture through biker culture. A motorcycle is an independent thing. You're like, 'I don't want to ride in a car with this person. I want to be independent and ride by myself. But, let's ride in a group. Let's be independent, together.'

The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.

It took me a long time to square with the fact that none of my experiences are typical - I'm not a typical American, but I'm also not a typical Muslim.

America is not to be Rome or Britain. It is to be America.

America is not held together by a common race, religion or ethnicity; it is held together by shared values.

U. S. A. is the slice of a continent. U. S. A. is a group of holding companies, some aggregations of trade unions, a set of laws bound in calf, a radio network, a chain of moving picture theaters, a column of stock quotations …a public library full of old newspapers and dog-eared history books with protests scrawled on the margins in pencil. U. S. A. is the world’s greatest river valley fringed with mountains and hills, U. S. A. is a set of big-mouthed officials with too many bank accounts. U. S. A is a lot of men buried in their uniforms in Arlington Cemetery. U. S. A. is the letters at the end of the address when you are away from home. But mostly U. S. A. is the speech of the people.

America's about individuals, not about averages or groups.

The American girl doesn't look just one kind of way - not in 2018, not ever.

America was built by immigrants. Almost nobody that I know is any more than three generations, maybe four generations, American.

No American worth his salt should go looking around for a root. I advance this in all modesty, as a not unreasonable opinion.

I would rather say that I have to be not from Los Angeles but from America. When I go to Europe or Asia, I find myself disoriented. I'm not so inspired by their culture as much. It's not going to really come out in my work. I would be more influenced by what somebody from America does - like a sign painter from Pennsylvania.

Without thinking too much about it in specific terms, I was showing the America I knew and observed to others who might not have noticed. My fundamental purpose is to interpret the typical American. I am a story teller.

When you do not name a group of people, you are compelled to look at each individual face and not treat them all as the mass.

We should only admit into America those who share our values and respect our people.

The western spirit is, or will yet be (for no other is, or can be) the true American one.

I'm fascinated by America...it's so odd.

People are too complicated to have simple labels.

People from all over the world came to America and assimilated into a single culture rooted in the founding, which is rooted in individual liberty and primacy of citizen over government. Everybody who came here, that's what drew them.

I'm not opposed to reaching out Hispanics. I'm all for reaching out to everybody! As Americans. Not as members of groups, and not treating people as though they're legitimate members of some grievance group, but reaching out to them as human beings.

I've always been opposed to groups. I can't believe the doctrine of group is going to work for every single person within the group.

Our way of life, our government defines the way America is. I mean, it's not luck.