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.

True Americanism is opposed utterly to any political divisions resting on race and religion.

I have sung for Americans of every political persuasion and I am proud that I never refuse to sing to an audience no matter what religion or color of their skin or situation in life.

The American way was for commerce personal relationships and religion to be voluntary. No one was forced to participate in something he didn't want.