America Quotes

Of all the questions which can come before this nation, short of the actual preservation of its exis...

The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first i...

Though American scenery is destitute of many of those circumstances that give value to the European,...

Good Americans when they die go to Paris.

How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no oth...

Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of...

No man will ever bring out of that office the reputation which carries him into it. The honeymoon wo...

Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the pre...

No body wishes more than I do to see such proofs as you exhibit, that nature has given to our black ...

October is a fine and dangerous season in America. a wonderful time to begin anything at all. You go...

As a matter of face, Zen is at present most fashionable in America among those who are least concern...

My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.

When my country, into which I had just set my foot, was set on fire about my ears, it was time to st...

If there is a country in the world where concord, according to common calculation, would be least ex...

What are the present governments of Europe, but a scene of iniquity and oppression? What is that of ...

Could he have been the fork in the road American never took, the singular point she jumped the wrong...

You’re chicken, she told herself, snapping her seat belt. This is America, you live in it, you let i...

I'm from Indiana the home of more first-rate second-class men than any other state in the union.

That enfabled rock that ship of life that swarming million-footed tower-masted sky-soaring cita...

I believe that we are lost here in America, but I believe we shall be found. And this belief, which ...

America - it is a fabulous country, the only fabulous country; it is the only place where miracles n...

There are golfers everywhere who may never get a chance to play a links course in Scotland, a tree-l...

In many ways he was like America itself, big and strong, full of good intentions, a roll of fat jigg...

And I think it's a prudent, responsible way, given the scale of the emergency, the scale of the dama...

September 11th was a moment when America had the sympathy of the world.

When the youth of America gets together, amazing things happen.

Look, America is no more a democracy than Russia is a Communist state. The governments of the U.S. a...

There were no mail-order catalogues in 1492. Marco Polo's journal was the wish book of Renaissance E...

Ultimately, the roast turkey must be regarded as a monument to Boomer's love.Look at it now, plump a...

If you think Independence Day is America's defining holiday, think again. Thanksgiving deserves that...

Kay yawned and rested her forehead against the windowpane, her fingers idly strumming the guitar: th...

America wants its respect.

On 'America's Top Model,' I've always told my girls to smile with their eyes. We call it 'smizing.' ...

I created 'America's Next Top Model' one-hundred percent. I was in my kitchen making tea one morning...

There is a mutual interest between Israel and the United States of America. It is more than friendsh...

Captain Cook discovered Australia looking for the Terra Incognita. Christopher Columbus thought he w...

A natural New Yorker is a native of the present tense.

I love America. It's such a positive country.

For me to go to America - which I find such a positive place - well, I took to it like a duck to wat...

You know, I love America. It's such a positive country.

...am so deeply impressed with the fair mindedness and tolerance of the American people...

My brothers and sisters of America, there is not the least shadow of hope that India can ever be Chr...

They are beautiful, heart-rendingly beautiful, those wilds, with a quality of wide-eyed, unsung, inn...

The United Nations' founders understood that decisions affecting war and peace should happen only by...

Like Nemesis of Greek tragedy, the central problem of America after the Civil War, as before, was th...

The degree of ignorance cannot easily be expressed. We may say, for instance, that nearly two-thirds...

This Midwestern sky is the nakedest loneliest sky in America. To escape it, people live inside and u...

America fears the unshaven legs, the unshaven men's cheeks, the aroma of perspiration, and the limp ...

America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.

It was mid-November 2008. There were pirates taking ships with impunity in African waters, terrorist...

You think that drinking with a serial killer takes you into the midnight currents of the culture? I ...

America's present need is not heroics but healing not nostrums but normalcy not revolution but resto...

There is, perhaps, no class of men on the face of the earth, says Captain Bonneville, who lead a lif...

It is worthy to note, that the early popularity of Washington was not the result of brilliant achiev...

Her mighty lakes, like oceans of liquid silver; her mountains, with bright aerial tints; her valleys...

You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned 70 or given up all hope...

America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.

That’s what money will buy you, in America,” Brown had said, firmly. “People say Americans are mater...

Modern fanaticism thrives in proportion to the quanitity of contradictions and nonsense it poures do...

We see it [the as-yet unseen, probable new planet, Neptune] as Columbus saw America from the coast o...

Here the earth, as if to prove its immensity, empties itself. Gertrude Stein said: 'In the United St...

The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation.

I had the feeling that all over America such stupid arguments were taking place on street corners an...

All over America, people were pulling credentials out of their pockets and sticking them under someo...

Although I write in English, and despite the fact that I’m from America, I consider myself an Armeni...

Let us make sure that the supreme fact of the 20th century is that they tread the same path.

As I went walking I saw a sign thereAnd on the sign it said "No Trespassing."But on the other side i...

The art of advertisement, after the American manner, has introduced into all our life such a lavish ...

Neutrality is a negative word. It does not express what America ought to feel. We are not trying to ...

Some Americans need hyphens in their names because only part of them has come over but when the wh...

A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today, nor what it ...

The thing in jazz that will get Bix Beiderbecke out of his bed at two o’clock in the morning, pick t...

Today you go into make a modern recording with all this technology. The bass plays first, then the d...

Motivated more by partisan politics than by national security, today's Democratic leaders see Americ...

I can remember when Democrats believed that it was the duty of America to fight for freedom over tyr...

Josh: So, Toby, it’s election night. What do you say about a country that goes out of its way to pro...

Jennifer Johnson: Can you say why America is the greatest country in the world?Sharon: Diversity and...

Can you say why America is the greatest country in the world?It’s not the greatest country in the wo...

Let every American, every lover of liberty, every well wisher to his posterity, swear by the blood o...

If you don't want to use the army I should like to borrow it for a while. Yours respectfully

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free -- honorable alike in what we give, an...

It is not in our forming battlements or bristling seacoasts, or our Army and Navy that makes America...

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be bec...

As a nation, we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal.' We now practically read it 'all...

Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation, we began by declaring that...

You want to buy cars and houses and castles, all of that's on you and how America has systematized y...

The government must give proper weight to both keeping America safe from terrorists and protecting A...

When the president during the campaign said he was against nation building, I didn't realize he mean...

They are bright and exciting. Like America. Like its women.

The superman exists and he's American.

In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the Unit...

Nationalism is an infantile sickness. It is the measles of the human race.

The campaign finance scandal in America is the global warming of American political life - with cash...

But neither Europe nor Africa can show any such desolation as America. The proudest, stubbornest, bi...

The Victrola, the Movies, a lecture: such are the three American alternatives to Silence, Scandal an...

America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.

The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her...

America is a land of wonders, in which everything is in constant motion and every change seems an im...

There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.

I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion...