Samuel Huntington Quotations

Since the new wave of immigration as a result of the 1965 changes, overall emigration appears to be somewhat lower than earlier in this century.

One doesn't know whether that economic growth will continue at its recent rates, and China may well go into an economic slide.

But we have to recognize the limits on our power and the fact that our ability to bring about changes in other societies is, is declining.

From 1882 until the 1950s, a whole series of legislation excluded immigrants from Asia from coming to our society.

I think it makes sense to try to contain China and limit the expansion of Chinese influence in other Asian countries.

Well, I think as far as China is concerned, it's the economic dynamism of China, which has already made China more assertive in world affairs.

Well, I think the worst thing would be for us to stumble into a great war without realizing it, without being the - without being prepared for it.

There's only one non-western territory that I can think is still run by a western government, and that's Hong Kong.

A public intellectual is not primarily a journalist, it is someone who has a university background and addresses a wider public than academics of the same background, he added

Back then that was pretty clear, and there were great pressures, and a certain amount of coercion, to ensure that immigrants did assimilate to the Anglo-Protestant culture, work ethnic, and the principles of the American Creed.

They were establishing new societies, in some cases for commercial reasons, in more cases for religious reasons.

A partial truth, on the other hand, is plausible, because there is evidence to support it. And hence, it is easy to assume that it is the total truth.

Before that we had thought of ourselves in large part as being defined religiously: 98 percent of Americans were Protestant.

The founding fathers added the propositional dimension to American identity at the time of the Revolution. How else were they going to justify themselves in rebelling against the British monarchy?

And Asian societies and Muslim societies are increasingly resentful of our efforts to induce them to adopt our values.