David Barton Quotes

Part of the western movement is this desire that we, Americans, have to keep pressing on.

I wanted to think about our creation myth; you know, what is the fundamental story that defines America. And it certainly is the West.

'Honor in the Dust' is less about the freedom of the Philippines than the soul of the United States.

[America should be a] nation, coextensive with the North American continent, destined by God and nature to be the most populous and powerful people ever combined under one social compact.

It is our manifest destiny to lead and rule all nations.

Our confederacy must be viewed as the nest from which all America, North or South, is to be peopled … speaking the same language, governed in similar forms, and by similar laws.

The notion that America is a nation chosen by God, a New Israel destined for a providential mission of world redemption, has been a near constant of the national experience.

The American conception that liberty’s task was to oppose concentrated power, produced a sense that the country had a mission to reshape the world in form much like its own, and enlarged a conviction that America was God’s country, with an exceptional and newly chosen people.

Much of how Americans have always understood their history, culture, and identity depends on positioning Europe as the 'other,' as that 'old world' against which they define themselves.

Before they became Americans, most white inhabitants of the 13 colonies considered themselves British. It was predictable, therefore, that they would lust after empire, because this was exactly what their counterparts on the other side of the Atlantic also did.

America's exceptionalism, American leadership, the American model, the American values are not [first with Donald Trump] - they're something that end at the border.

America is the greatest nation in the history of the world. There's nothing like America.

America, my country, is almost a continent and hardly yet a nation.

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

...Surely, we must renounce nationalism and all its symbols: its flags, its pledges of allegiance, its anthems, its insistence in song that God must single out America to be blessed.

When we look at the settling of America we see a Bible in hand and God. Every Thanksgiving has God and the peacefulness of gratitude. It was important when the Twin Towers were hit and the sorrow with them that the first thing Congress did was sing "God Bless America."

I get always a little uptight when I hear politicians say how exceptional America is.

We do not need to import any foreign economic ideas or any foreign government. We had better stick to the American brand of government, the American brand of equality, and the American brand of wages. America had better stay American

America is a great story and there is a river on every page of it.

One thing that America is objectively exceptional at is overreacting whenever anyone accuses them of not being exceptional.

America is a construction of mind, not of race or inherited class or ancestral territory.

America has a history of political isolation and economic self-sufficiency; its citizens have tended to regard the rest of the world as a disaster area from which lucky or pushy people emigrate to the Promised Land.

We should be building a nation and it should be called the United States of America. We are spending all our money nation-building in other places and they don't even want us.

America is a simplified ideological abstraction, an emotive symbol represented by other abstract symbols like the flag. It is the object of a faithlike devotion, unencumbered by honest history.

You can't kill America. We're more than a nation. We're a notion. We're an idea. The American Dream. You never heard of the Afghanistani Dream have you. Except by bearded hermetic recluses with a fetish for uneducated women dressed as giant shuttlecocks.