in our youth is our
strength; our inexperience
it is our wisdom

Adapted from this passage in White-Jacket or The World in a Man-of-War by Herman Melville, Harper Brothers, New York, 1855.

And we Americans are the peculiar, chosen people—the Israel of our time; we bear the ark of the liberties of the world.

Seventy years ago we escaped from thrall; and, besides our first birthright—embracing one continent of earth—God has given to us, for a future inheritance, the broad domains of the political pagans, that shall yet come and lie down under the shade of our ark, without bloody hands being lifted.

God has predestinated, mankind expects, great things from our race; and great things we feel in our souls. The rest of the nations must soon be in our rear.

We are the pioneers of the world; the advance-guard, sent on through the wilderness of untried things, to break a new path in the New World that is ours.

In our youth is our strength; in our inexperience, our wisdom.

At a period when other nations have but lisped, our deep voice is heard afar.

Long enough, have we been skeptics with regard to ourselves, and doubted whether, indeed, the political Messiah had come.

But he has come in us, if we would but give utterance to his promptings.

And let us always remember that with ourselves, almost for the first time in the history of earth, national selfishness is unbounded philanthropy; for we cannot do a good to America but we give alms to the world.

You could think this all about the orange guy until that last line.

National selfishness is unbounded philanthropy.

For we cannot do a good to America but we give alms to the world.

the second-worst
delivered second term to
the worst president

Based on the last paragraph of the article, Joe Biden had one job. And he failed, by Mehdi Hasan in the Guardian.

Mr. Hasan writes: Joe Biden had one job. But because of his arrogance and intransigence, his caution and complacency, he failed.

Today, I consider Joe Biden to be not the most impressive but perhaps the second-worst president of my lifetime because he helped deliver a second term to the worst president of my lifetime.

Not so sure that History won’t disagree.

Not so sure that I don’t want history to disagree especially that this incoming feller is the worst President of anyone’s lifetime.

extend alien ban
scandalous bootlegging of
aliens through seaports

WOULD EXTEND ALIEN BAN

Secretary Davis Will See Coolidge on Canada and Mexico Quotas

Special to the New York Times

Washington. Jan. 13 – The application of the quota provisions of the Immigration law of 1924 to Canada, Mexico and Central and South America, which are at present excepted from the restrictive features of the statute, will soon be discussed with President Coolidge by Secretary of Labor Davis a view to the extension of the act through legislat1on.

Secretary Davis insists that the quota principle be extended to Canada and Latin America to suppress the scandalous bootlegging of aliens through seaports and over the Southern and
Northern borders. He would admit labor when needed but would have the President authorized to limit or prohibit immigration whenever the Secretary of Labor and the Secretary of Commerce found that unemployment in this country made such suspension of the law desirable.

100 years ago today in the New York Times.

We certainly have come a long way since then.

President Coolidge was never arrested.

And the aliens weren’t from Mars but coming from the same old places … Mexico and Canada.