| From this wonderful essay:" I was raised watching his movies like, It's A Wonderful Life" and "Mr. Smith Goes To Washington," and in those movies and other like them, the good guys always win in the end. The message was that as the children of immigrants who came to this country to escape the corruption of the old world, we would not abide it here.This was a country of law where the son of a Jewish immigrant named Louis Brandeis could become a Supreme Court justice in one generation...Will Rogers expressed the difference of America by saying, "We all couldn't make it on the first boat." if one was an indentured servant in colonial times, they could work their way out of it, buy a horse and a rifle and move across the Appalachians into the Ohio Valley and settle land that in Europe had long before been divided up..." More... |
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