American Exceptionalism Quotes

“The third Great Awakening is variously said to have started between the 1860s and 1890; it continued into the early 1900s and laid the ethical basis for the emancipation of women, the reforms of the New Deal and, later, the civil rights movement.”
― Charles Murray, American Exceptionalism: An Experiment in History

“Four American traits were central to the evolution of that culture: industriousness, egalitarianism, religiosity, and an amalgam of philanthropy and volunteerism that was uniquely American.”
― Charles Murray, American Exceptionalism: An Experiment in History

“when the country began, the Founders were unanimously of the opinion that their creation could work in practice only because of qualities that already existed in the American people—their honesty, industriousness, religiosity, and morality, to name four that all of the Founders discussed in one way or another.5”
― Charles Murray, American Exceptionalism: An Experiment in History

“For a discussion of the Founders’ view that a successful republic required a high level of virtue in the people, see Charles Murray, Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960–2012 (New York: Crown Forum, 2012), chap. 6. 6”
― Charles Murray, American Exceptionalism: An Experiment in History