Thanks to American Writes reader Laura V. for sending the following note to me:

Today’s American Thought is posted to Twitter twice a day, mid-morning and mid-evening Central Time. They are quotes, or condensed quotes from Americans and others around the world who have embodied the American Spirit with their words. I post the same quote twice to catch those people who have different schedules and may find my morning post gets so far down on the list of tweets they are trying to catch up with that they might miss these meaningful mentions.

This listing is updated weekly here on this page to give the full quotation and the citation…something that is difficult to do in the 140 character limit of Twitter.

I hope you enjoy! (more…)

The conservative is fluctuating between fear and loathing, depression and anger, vigor and sloth. Ambition and acquiescence.

Let’s get a grip.

Consider these: (more…)

[Read Part One Here]

In the 1840s, Manifest Destiny was the cry of the citizenry. 1845 saw John K. O’Sullivan, a magazine editor, write that no nation on earth should be allowed to interfere with America’s “manifest destiny to overspread the continent allotted by Providence for the free development of our yearly multiplying millions,” echoing in popular sentiment the subtle but powerful Monroe Doctrine of two decades earlier.

It has been a prevailing axiom that as a tool of God, that which benefits America benefits the world and mankind. This had become an awesome and awe-inspiring prescription that begat results that were nothing short of miraculous reminiscent of divine intervention and divine right. (more…)

Never in the history of the world has the growth of a people in their social, political, technical, intellectual and entrepreneurial pursuits been so phenomenal as what has happened on this continent in the last 150 years, built on the four centuries previous to that and the 2000 generations preceding the time of a Genoan explorer. Whether Chian, Alexandrian, Egyptian, Greek or Roman, these cultures are mere sentinels in history, watching their very shadows eclipsed by the blossoming of a land, culture, and idea unique to our time and meant for the ages. (more…)

Roller coasters.

You think of them and a smile comes to your face. Even if they make you sick, there’s something exhilarating about them. Even if you can only watch while others take their ride, it’s a metaphor for life that everyone has to ride. Roller coasters make you feel so alive.

Right now, we’re watching David & Susan, sitting in the seat right behind Cole, as he takes a ride on a coaster you and I would never sign up for, no matter what. (more…)