We thought that whatever we wanted to do was right and good, simply because we were Americans, and we would succeed at it because we were Americans.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
History shows that Americans believe in doing the right thing.
American inventiveness and the desire to build developed because we were guaranteed the right to own our success.
I think you have to remember that Americans saw their purpose as so innately good that they could excuse the pain they would inflict on others to carry out those purposes. Because the purposes were so good, they would justify this pain we were inflicting on other people.
When our interests matched, the Americans have been good to us, and when the interests differed, they wanted us to mold ourselves to them, which we refused.
We're in this together. We are Americans. We all have to do the best we can. And we will because that's who we are.
We may be many things, we Americans, but we always get the job done.
If you stop and think about our history, one of the reasons we had an American century and there is an American dream was because at key points in our history we made very bold decisions about making sure that there was very broad, universal access to quality education.
We still believe in the America that is a land of opportunity and a beacon of freedom. We believe in the America that challenges each of us to be better and bigger than ourselves.
The American Way is an amalgam of our compassion, our strengths, our failings and our attempts to build a better world, a more perfect union.
America wasn't founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damned well pleased.