America Quotes, Sayings about USA

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves - Abraham Lincoln.

America is much more than a geographical fact. It is a political and moral fact - the first community in which men set out in principle to institutionalize freedom, responsible government, and human equality - Adlai Stevenson.

America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair - Arnold Toynbee.

America, for me, has been the pursuit and catching of happiness - Aurora Raigne.

America is great because it has as much diversity in geographies as it does in peoples - Aurora Raigne.

What the people want is very simple. They want an America as good as its promise - Barbara Jordan.

We Americans have no commission from God to police the world - Benjamin Harrison.

A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won’t cross the street to vote in a national election - Bill Vaughan.

America’s one of the finest countries anyone ever stole - Bobcat Goldthwaite.

Being an American is a spectator sport - Brock Fiant.

America is not just a country but a way - Carrie Latet.

Don’t forget to stop every once in a while and actually thank God for blessing America - he gets a lot of requests, you know - Carrie Latet.

America is a great big heart attack - Carrie Latet.

May I never wake up from the American dream - Carrie Latet.

The American experiment is the most tremendous and far reaching engine of social change which has ever either blessed or cursed mankind - Charles Francis Adams.

The trouble with America is that there are far too many wide-open spaces surrounded by teeth - Charles Luckman.

To me, being an American means feeling safe - Currielene Armstrong.

Only Americans can hurt America - Dwight D. Eisenhower.

America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization - Georges Clemenceau.

If you take advantage of everything America has to offer, there’s nothing you can’t accomplish - Geraldine Ferraro.

America is a tune. It must be sung together - Gerald Stanley Lee.

There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong - G.K. Chesterton.

America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people - Gloria Steinem.

If our country is worth dying for in time of war let us resolve that it is truly worth living for in time of peace - Hamilton Fish.

I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort. If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it - Henry James.

You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world. We are not a nation, so much as a world - Herman Melville.

What we need are critical lovers of America - patriots who express their faith in their country by working to improve it - Hubert H. Humphrey.

We need an America with the wisdom of experience. But we must not let America grow old in spirit - Hubert H. Humphrey.

America is God’s crucible, the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and reforming! The real American has not yet arrived. He is only in the crucible, I tell you - he will be the fusion of all races - Israel Zangwill.

I love America more than any other country in this world; and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually - James Baldwin.

The United States is the only country with a known birthday - James G. Blaine.

America is a nation with many flaws, but hopes so vast that only the cowardly would refuse to acknowledge them - James Michener.

America is so vast that almost everything said about it is likely to be true, and the opposite is probably equally true - James T. Farrell.

I love my freedom. I love my America - Jessi Lane Adams.

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America - Jimmy Carter.

America is a place where Jewish merchants sell Zen love beads to agnostics for Christmas - John Burton Brimer.

America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy - John Updike.

America is a country that doesn’t know where it is going but is determined to set a speed record getting there - Laurence J. Peter.

Not merely a nation but a nation of nations - Lyndon B. Johnson.

What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it - Margot Asquith.

America is the only country ever founded on the printed word - Marshall McLuhan.

America is a passionate idea or it is nothing. America is a human brotherhood or it is chaos - Max Lerner.

The skies of happiness shine upon these United States of America - Mirakel Reves.

America is the best half-educated country in the world - Nicholas Murray Butler.

How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy - Paul Sweeney.

In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from - Peter Alexander Ustinov.

Let America realize that self-scrutiny is not treason. Self-examination is not disloyalty - Richard Cardinal Cushing.

Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian - Robert Orben.

Americans like fat books and thin women - Russell Baker.

America is a mistake, a giant mistake - Sigmund Freud.

This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in - Theodore Roosevelt.

We sleep peacefully at night, cradled by the big strong hands of America - Val Saintsbury.

My favorite thing about the United States? Lots of Americans, one America - Val Saintsbury.

There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America - William J. Clinton.

If America ever passes out as a great nation, we ought to put on our tombstone: America died from a delusion she had Moral Leadership - Will Rogers.

Americans always try to do the right thing after they’ve tried everything else - Winston Churchill.

The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation - Woodrow Wilson.

Some Americans need hyphens in their names, because only part of them has come over; but when the whole man has come over, heart and thought and all, the hyphen drops of its own weight out of his name - Woodrow Wilson.

Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world - Woodrow Wilson.

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