There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing.

Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others.

We shall listen not lecture learn not threaten. We will enhance our safety by earning the respect of others and showing respect for them. In short our foreign policy will rest on the traditional American values of restraint and empathy not on military might.

Like the average American that I hang out with and like my father before me I raised all my children to respect tools and use them wisely and safely.

The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.

Americans have been conditioned to respect newness whatever it costs them.

Buddhism has become a socially recognized religious philosophy for Americans whereas it used to be considered an exotic religion.

Americans should be free to recognize our religious heritage doing that is not the same as creating a government-sponsored religion.

I think the real problem for American religion are those minority of fundamentalists who try to identify political policies with religion.

The American Indian was an individualist in religion as in war. He had neither a national army nor an organized church.