“ In America, all is easy, all is simple; and as for mechanical difficulties, they are overcome before they arise. ”
Jules Verne, From the Earth to the Moon (1865). copy citation
| Author | Jules Verne |
|---|---|
| Source | From the Earth to the Moon |
| Topic | difficulty overcoming |
| Date | 1865 |
| Language | English |
| Reference | |
| Note | Translated by Lewis Page Mercier and Eleanor E. King |
| Weblink | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/From_the_Earth_to_the_Moon |
Context
“He was presently torn from his seat and passed from the hands of his faithful colleagues into the arms of a no less excited crowd.
Nothing can astound an American. It has often been asserted that the word "impossible" in not a French one. People have evidently been deceived by the dictionary. In America, all is easy, all is simple; and as for mechanical difficulties, they are overcome before they arise. Between Barbicane's proposition and its realization no true Yankee would have allowed even the semblance of a difficulty to be possible. A thing with them is no sooner said than done.
The triumphal progress of the president continued throughout the evening.”
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