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America and Americans QuotesFamous America and Americans quotes by popular authors such as Alexis de Tocqueville, Theodore Roosevelt, Abraham Lincoln, John F. Kennedy, Oscar Wilde and others.
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[highlight-text]This is a Christian nation.
Harry S. Truman
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[highlight-text]Florida: God's waiting room.
Glenn le Grice
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[highlight-text]Only Americans can hurt America.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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[highlight-text]America is a country of young men.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[highlight-text]New York the nation's thyroid gland.
Christopher Morley
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[highlight-text]The business of America is business.
Calvin Coolidge
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[highlight-text]America is a mistake a giant mistake.
Sigmund Freud
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[highlight-text]America is a willingness of the heart.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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[highlight-text]Good Americans when they die go to Paris.
Thomas Gold Appleton
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[highlight-text]A Bostonian - an American broadly speaking.
George Edward Woodberry
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[highlight-text]America is a tune. It must be sung together.
Gerald Stanley Lee
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[highlight-text]The swaggering underemphasis of New England.
Heywood Broun
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[highlight-text]America and its demons Europe and its ghosts.
Le Monde
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[highlight-text]America once had the clarity of a pioneer axe.
Robert Osborn
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[highlight-text]Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf.
Lewis Mumford
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[highlight-text]America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.
John Updike
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[highlight-text]Stormy husky brawling City of the Big Shoulders.
Carl Sandburg
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[highlight-text]United States! Go put your creed into your deed.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[highlight-text]Why if you're not in New York you are camping out.
Thomas W. Dewing
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[highlight-text]America - the best poor man's country in the world.
William Allen
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[highlight-text]America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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[highlight-text]The greatest American superstition is belief in facts.
Hermann Keyserling
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[highlight-text]A natural New Yorker is a native of the present tense.
V. S. Pritchett
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[highlight-text]When you stand for your liberty we will stand with you.
George W. Bush
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[highlight-text]Part of the American dream is to live long and die young.
Edgar Z. Friedenberg
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[highlight-text]In this country we have no place for hyphenated Americans.
Theodore Roosevelt
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[highlight-text]This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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[highlight-text]The United States is the only country with a known birthday.
James G. Blaine
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[highlight-text]Poor Mexico so far from God and so near to the United States.
Porfirio Diaz
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[highlight-text]The real America that Whitman proclaimed and Thoreau decoded.
Allen Ginsberg
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[highlight-text]We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.
Benjamin Harrison
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[highlight-text]Ours is the only country deliberately founded on a good idea.
John Gunther
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[highlight-text]Americans learn only from catastrophe and not from experience.
Theodore Roosevelt
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[highlight-text]What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.
Will Rogers
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[highlight-text]He speaks English with the flawless imperfection of a New Yorker.
Gilbert Millstein
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[highlight-text]Our destiny is bound up with the destiny of every other American.
Bill Clinton
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[highlight-text]America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation.
Laurence J. Peter
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[highlight-text]We dare not forget that we are the heirs of that first revolution.
John F. Kennedy
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[highlight-text]We have to make America the best place in the world to do business.
Dick Cheney
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[highlight-text]I was born an American; I live an American; I shall die an American.
Daniel Webster
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[highlight-text]The United States is in no sense founded upon the Christian doctrine.
George Washington
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[highlight-text]The sorrows and disasters of Europe always brought fortune to America.
Stephen Leacock
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[highlight-text]Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
Jesse Jackson
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[highlight-text]The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game ! and lost.
Murray Kepton
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[highlight-text]Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
Henry Mencken
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[highlight-text]Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.
Ada Louise Huxtable
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[highlight-text]Washington is a city of people doing badly what shouldn't be done at all.
Robert H. Gurney
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[highlight-text]The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
Henry Kissinger
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[highlight-text]People who leave Washington D.C. do so by way of the box - ballot or coffin.
Claiborne Pell
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[highlight-text]I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.
Abraham Lincoln
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[highlight-text]Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.
Douglas MacArthur
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[highlight-text]New York is notoriously inhospitable to the past disowning it whenever it can.
John D. Rosenberg
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[highlight-text]America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our people.
George W. Bush
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[highlight-text]No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.
Henry Mencken
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[highlight-text]Whoever wants to know the hearts and minds of America had better learn baseball.
Jacques Barzun
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[highlight-text]The country shall be independent and we will be satisfied with nothing short of it.
Samuel Adams
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[highlight-text]Thou oh my country hast thy foolish ways Too apt to purr at every stranger's praise.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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[highlight-text]America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people.
Gloria Steinem
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[highlight-text]We have really everything in common with America nowadays except of course language.
Oscar Wilde
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[highlight-text]Delaware: a state that has three counties when the tide is out and two when it is in.
John James Ingalls
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[highlight-text]This country was built on rape slavery murder degradation and affiliation with crime.
Mike Tyson
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[highlight-text]There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.
Bill Clinton
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[highlight-text]If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God then we will be a Nation gone under.
Ronald Reagan
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[highlight-text]I don't like the life here in New York. There is no greenery. It would make a stone sick.
Nikita Khrushchev
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[highlight-text]The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.
Henry Kissinger
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[highlight-text]The United States was born in the country and moved to the city in the nineteenth century.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense...human rights invented America.
Jimmy Carter
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[highlight-text]It is not what we have that will make us a great nation; it is the way in which we use it.
Theodore Roosevelt
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[highlight-text]As for what you're calling hard luck - well we made New England out of it. That and codfish.
Stephen Vincent Benet
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[highlight-text]Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.
George Santayana
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[highlight-text]If you don't want to use the army I should like to borrow it for a while. Yours respectfully
Abraham Lincoln
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[highlight-text]The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles.
Henry Kissinger
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[highlight-text]The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.
Joseph Wood Krutch
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[highlight-text]Chicago - a facade of skyscrapers facing a lake and behind the facade every type of dubiousness.
E. M. Forster
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[highlight-text]I'm from Indiana the home of more first-rate second-class men than any other state in the union.
Thomas R. Marshall
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[highlight-text]If tyranny and oppression come to this land it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
James Madison
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[highlight-text]The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
Benjamin Franklin
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[highlight-text]The true America is the Middle West and Columbus discovered nothing at all except another Europe.
W. L. George
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[highlight-text]The whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance a revolutionary crisis or a battle.
Alexis de Tocqueville
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[highlight-text]We need an America with the wisdom of experience. But we must not let America grow old in spirit.
Hubert H. Humphrey
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[highlight-text]The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands.
George W. Bush
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[highlight-text]America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good America will cease to be great.
Alexis de Tocqueville
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[highlight-text]Hail Columbia! happy land! Hail ye heroes! heavenborn band! Who fought and bled in Freedom's cause.
Joseph Hopkinson
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[highlight-text]If ever there was an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptown-on-the-Hudson called New York.
O. Henry
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[highlight-text]Americans are so enamored of equality they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.
Alexis de Tocqueville
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[highlight-text]America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair.
Arnold J. Toynbee
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[highlight-text]American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age.
Marshall McLuhan
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[highlight-text]We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared so we may always be free.
Ronald Reagan
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[highlight-text]It is our true policy to steer clear of any permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world.
George Washington
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[highlight-text]Washington is a place where men praise courage and act on elaborate personal cost-benefit calculations.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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[highlight-text]My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.
Abraham Lincoln
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[highlight-text]The greatness of our country has been based on our thinking that everyone has a right even to be wrong.
Ronald Reagan
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[highlight-text]I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem-and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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[highlight-text]Let's talk sense to the American people. Let's tell them the truth that there are no gains without pains.
Adlai E. Stevenson
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[highlight-text]Perhaps after all America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
Oscar Wilde
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[highlight-text]Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his sons the hardships that made him rich.
Robert Frost
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[highlight-text]America... an economic system prouder of the distribution of its products than of the products themselves.
Murray Kempton
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[highlight-text]The American people are slow to wrath but when their wrath is once kindled it burns like a consuming flame.
Theodore Roosevelt
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[highlight-text]America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen but I am afraid it is not going to be a success.
Sigmund Freud
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[highlight-text]California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn't really need. You can quote me on that.
Saul Bellow
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[highlight-text]The skyline of New York is a monument of a splendour that no pyramids or palaces will ever equal or approach.
Ayn Rand
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[highlight-text]Americans can always be counted on to do the right thing...after they have exhausted all other possibilities.
Winston Churchill
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[highlight-text]America is a nation with many flaws but hopes so vast that only the cowardly would refuse to acknowledge them.
James A. Michener
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[highlight-text]We cannot be both the world’s leading champion of peace and the world’s leading supplier of arms.
Jimmy Carter
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]The U.S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.
Benjamin Franklin
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[highlight-text]The women of this nation in 1876 have greater cause for discontent rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.
Susan B. Anthony
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[highlight-text]A town that has no ceiling price A town of double-talk; A town so big men name her twice Like so: 'N'Yawk N'Yawk.'
Christopher Morley
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[highlight-text]There is hardly a political question in the United States which does not sooner or later turn into a judicial one.
Alexis de Tocqueville
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[highlight-text]I shall enter on no encomium upon Massachussets; she needs none. There she is. Behold her and judge for yourselves.
Daniel Webster
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[highlight-text]In the United States doing good has come to be like patriotism a favorite device of persons with something to sell.
Henry Mencken
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[highlight-text]I deplore the need or the use of troops anywhere to get American citizens to obey the orders of constituted courts.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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[highlight-text]You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned 70 or given up all hope of the Presidency.
Wendell Phillips
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[highlight-text]In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes America what it is.
Gertrude Stein
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white man came an Indian said simply 'Ours.'
Vine Deloria
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]That strange blend of the commercial traveller the missionary and the barbarian conqueror which was the American abroad.
Olaf Stapledon
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[highlight-text]Americans assume Canada to be bestowed as a right and accept this bounty as they do air without thought or appreciation.
Dean Acheson
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[highlight-text]The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.
Alexis de Tocqueville
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[highlight-text]The British are just as keen to make money as the Americans but they prefer hypocrisy to a blatantly commercial attitude.
Wendy Michener
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[highlight-text]My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you but what together we can do for the freedom of man.
John F. Kennedy
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[highlight-text]What we need are critical lovers of America - patriots who express their faith in their country by working to improve it.
Hubert H. Humphrey
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[highlight-text]I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America but the business and administrative centre of American culture.
Saul Bellow
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[highlight-text]America is the first country to have gone from barbarism to decadence without the usual intervening period of civilization.
Oscar Wilde
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[highlight-text]Pennsylvania the state that has produced two great men: Benjamin Franklin of Massachusetts and Albert Gallatin of Switzerland.
John James Ingalls
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[highlight-text]America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
Abraham Lincoln
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[highlight-text]The Americans believe they answered all first questions in 1776: since then they've just been hammering out the practical details.
Ray Smith
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[highlight-text]Do you think we really needed Alaska and Hawaii? They gotta ruin everything. They ruined the continental United States. Ruined it!
Larry David
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[highlight-text]Today we can declare: Government is not the problem and government is not the solution. We the American people we are the solution.
Bill Clinton
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[highlight-text]It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate - to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.
Thomas Jefferson
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[highlight-text](A country where) the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
Oscar Wilde
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[highlight-text]And this is good old Boston The home of the bean and the cod - Where the Lowells talk to the Cabots And the Cabots talk only to God.
J. C. Bossidy
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[highlight-text]The central fact of North American history is that there were fifteen British Colonies before 1776. Thirteen rebelled and two did not.
June Callwood
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[highlight-text]A well-established village in New England or the northern Middle-West could afford a town drunkard a town atheist and a few Democrats.
D. W. Brogan
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[highlight-text]The office of the president is such a bastardized thing half royalty and half democracy that nobody knows whether to genuflect or spit.
Jimmy Breslin
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[highlight-text]Let the word go forth from this time and place to friend and foe alike that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans.
John F. Kennedy
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[highlight-text]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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[highlight-text]Our flag is red white and blue but our nation is a rainbow -- red yellow brown black and white -- and we're all precious in God's sight.
Jesse Jackson
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[highlight-text]The President spends most of his time kissing people on the cheek in order to get them to do what they ought to do without getting kissed.
Harry S. Truman
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[highlight-text]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.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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[highlight-text]Ours is the country where in order to sell your product you don't so much point out its merits as you first work like hell to sell yourself.
Louis Kronenberger
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[highlight-text]The Constitution shall never be construed...to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.
Samuel Adams
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[highlight-text]After twenty annual visits I am still surprised each time I return to see this giant asparagus bed of alabaster and rose and green skyscrapers.
Cecil Beaton
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[highlight-text]If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time or die by suicide.
Abraham Lincoln
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[highlight-text]We know that equality of individual ability has never existed and never will but we do insist that equality of opportunity still must be sought.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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[highlight-text]You say to your soldier 'Do this' and he does it. But I am obliged to say to the American 'This is why you ought to do this' and then he does it.
Baron von Steuben
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[highlight-text]It is by the goodness of God that in this country we have three benefits: freedom of speech freedom of thought and the wisdom never to use either.
Mark Twain
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[highlight-text]The government at Washington does live. It lives in the pages of our Constitution and in the hearts of our citizens and there it will always be safe.
Spiro T. Agnew
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[highlight-text]That enfabled rock that ship of life that swarming million-footed tower-masted sky-soaring citadel that bears the magic name of the Island of Manhattan.
Thomas Wolfe
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[highlight-text]The cost of freedom is always high but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose and that is the path of surrender or submission.
John F. Kennedy
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[highlight-text]On account of being a democracy and run by the people we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years no matter what it does.
Will Rogers
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[highlight-text]The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through.
Alexis de Tocqueville
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[highlight-text]I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
Thomas Jefferson
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[highlight-text]America should care more for its poor and reform itself in other ways; but even if it won't do those things it remains the least constrained society on earth.
Robert M. Adams
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[highlight-text]The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes.
Calvin Coolidge
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[highlight-text]When American(s) ask for the cooperation of (their) fellow citizens it is seldom refused; and I have often seen it afforded spontaneously and with great good will.
Alexis de Tocqueville
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[highlight-text]Thou too sail on O Shipof State! Sail on O Union strong and great! Humanity with all its fears With all the hopes of future years Is hanging breathless on thy fate!
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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[highlight-text]The Americans combine the notions of Christianity and of liberty so intimately in their minds that it is impossible to make them conceive the one without the other.
Alexis de Tocqueville
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[highlight-text]Americans have a special horror of letting things happen their own way without interference. They would like to jump down their stomachs digest the food and shovel the shit out.
William S. Burroughs
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[highlight-text]I come from a state that raises corn and cotton and cockleburs and Democrats and frothy eloquence neither convinces nor satisfies me. I am from Missouri. You have got to show me.
Willard D. Vandiver
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[highlight-text]In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases but woe to him if he goes beyond them.
Alexis de Tocqueville
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[highlight-text]The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price peace at any price safety first instead of duty first the love of soft living and the get rich quick theory of life.
Theodore Roosevelt
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[highlight-text]It was by the sober sense of our citizens that we were safely and steadily conducted from monarchy to republicanism and it is by the same agency alone we can be kept from falling back.
Thomas Jefferson
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[highlight-text]Driven from every other corner of the earth freedom of thought and the right of private judgment in matters of conscience direct their course to this happy country as their last resort.
Samuel Adams
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[highlight-text]I don't intellectually understand you people. I don't understand your hate I don't understand your rage I don't understand what it is about the goodness of this country you can't abide.
Rush Limbaugh
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[highlight-text]Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life secondly to liberty and thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can.
Samuel Adams
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[highlight-text]To those new States whom we welcome to the ranks of the free we pledge our word that one form of colonial control shall not have passed away merely to be replaced by a far more iron tyranny.
John F. Kennedy
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[highlight-text]In the United States the majority undertakes to supply a multitude of ready-made opinions for the use of individuals who are thus relieved from the necessity of forming opinions of their own.
Alexis de Tocqueville
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[highlight-text]The United States stands at the pinnacle of world power. This is a solemn moment for the American democracy. For with primacy in power is joined an awe-inspiring accountability for the future.
Winston Churchill
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[highlight-text]You will find the Americans much as the Greeks found the Romans: great big vulgar bustling people more vigorous than we are and also more idle with more unspoiled virtues but also more corrupt.
Harold Macmillan
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[highlight-text]America...just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.
Hunter S. Thompson
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[highlight-text]Our country offers the most wonderful example of democratic government on a giant scale that the world has ever seen; and the peoples of the world are watching to see whether we succeed or fail.
Theodore Roosevelt
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[highlight-text]Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions.
Daniel Webster
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner unless you eat some of what's on that plate. Being here in America doesn't make you an American. Being born here in America doesn't make you an American.
Malcolm X
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[highlight-text]To announce that there must be no criticism of the president or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong is not only unpatriotic and servile but is morally treasonable to the American public.
Theodore Roosevelt
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[highlight-text]It was we the people; not we the white male citizens; nor yet we the male citizens; but we the whole people who formed the Union... Men their rights and nothing more; women their rights and nothing less.
Susan B. Anthony
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[highlight-text]The Englishman is under no constitutional obligation to believe that all men are created equal. The American agony is therefore scarcely intelligible like a saint's self-flagellation viewed by an atheist.
John Updike
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[highlight-text]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 E. Stevenson
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[highlight-text]The thing we all have to understand to put these last two years in focus is that liberals in this country care more about whether European leaders like us than they do about whether terrorists are killing us.
Rush Limbaugh
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[highlight-text]Let every nation know whether it wishes us well or ill that we shall pay any price bear any burden meet any hardship support any friend oppose any foe in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
John F. Kennedy
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[highlight-text]The flames kindled on the Fourth of July 1776 have spread over too much of the globe to be extinguished by the feeble engines of despotism; on the contrary they will consume these engines and all who work them.
Thomas Jefferson
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[highlight-text]In the United States 'First' and 'Second' class can't be painted on railroad cars for all passengers being Americans are equal and it would be 'unAmerican.' But paint 'Pullman' on a car and everyone is satisfied.
Owen Wister
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[highlight-text]0 beautiful for patriot dream That sees beyond the years Thine alabaster cities gleam Undimmed by human tears! America! America! God shed his grace on thee And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shining sea!
Katharine Lee Bates
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[highlight-text]The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure.
George Washington
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[highlight-text]If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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[highlight-text]America is not like a blanket: one piece of unbroken cloth the same color the same texture the same size. America is more like a quilt: many patches many pieces many colors many sizes all woven and held together by a common thread.
Jesse Jackson
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[highlight-text]We are now at the point where we must decide whether we are to honour the concept of a plural society which gains strength through diversity or whether we are to have bitter fragmentation that will result in perpetual tension and strife.
Earl Warren
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[highlight-text]The lusts of the flesh can be gratified anywhere; it is not this sort of licence that distinguishes New York. It is rather a lust of the total ego for recognition even for eminence. More than elsewhere everybody here wants to be Somebody.
Sydney J. Harris
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[highlight-text]Over the years the United States has sent many of its fine young men and women into great peril to fight for freedom beyond our borders. The only amount of land we have ever asked for in return is enough to bury those that did not return.
Colin Powell
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[highlight-text]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 arived. He is only in the crucible Itell you - he will be the fusion of all races the common superman.
Israel Zangwill
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[highlight-text]America has the best doctors the best nurses the best hospitals the best medical technology the best medical breakthrough medicines in the world. There is absolutely no reason we should not have in this country the best health care in the world.
Bill Frist
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[highlight-text]A Galileo could no more be elected president of the United States than he could be elected Pope of Rome. Both high posts are reserved for men favored by God with an extraordinary genius for swathing the bitter facts of life in bandages of self-illusion.
Henry Mencken
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[highlight-text]The mystic chords of memory stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land will yet swell the chorus of the Union when again touched as surely they will be by the better angels of our nature.
Abraham Lincoln
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[highlight-text]You give me a credit to which I have no claim in calling me 'the writer of the Constitution of the United States.' This was not like the fabled Goddess of Wisdom the offspring of a single brain. It ought to be regarded as the work of many heads and many hands.
James Madison
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[highlight-text]I am well aware of the toil and blood and treasure that it will cost to maintain this Declaration and support and defend these States. Yet through all the gloom I can see the rays of ravishing light and glory. I can see that the end is worth more than the means.
John Adams
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[highlight-text]Nothing ever gets settled in this town (Washington). It's not like running a company or even a university. It's a seething debating society in which the debate never stops; in which people never give up including me and that's the atmosphere in which you administer.
George P. Shultz
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[highlight-text]The Declaration of Independence dogmatically bases all rights on the fact that God created all men equal; and it is right; for if they were not created equal they were certainly evolved unequal. There is no basis for democracy except in a dogma about the divine origin of man.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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[highlight-text]It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded not by religionists but by Christians; not on religions but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ.For this very reason peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum prosperity and freedom of worship here.
Patrick Henry
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[highlight-text]The American's conversation is much like his courtship ... He gives an inkling and watches for a reaction; if the weather looks fair he inkles a little more. Wishing neither to intrude nor be intruded upon he advances by stages of acceptance by levels of agreement by steps of concurrence.
Donald Lloyd
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[highlight-text]Four years ago some said the world had grown calm and many assumed that the United States was invulnerable to danger. That thought might have been comforting; it was also false. Like other generations of Americans we soon discovered that history had great and unexpected duties in store for us.
Dick Cheney
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[highlight-text]Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear — kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor — with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it.
Douglas MacArthur
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[highlight-text]When an American says that he loves his country he means not only that he loves the New England hills the prairies glistening in the sun the wide and rising plains the great mountains and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self-respect.
Adlai E. Stevenson
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[highlight-text]New England is a finished place. Its destiny is that of Florence or Venice not Milan while the American empire careens onward toward its predicted end ... it is the first American section to be finished to achieve stability in the conditions of its life. It is the first old civilization the first permanent civilization in America.
Bernard de Voto
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[highlight-text]We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice ambition revenge or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
John Adams
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[highlight-text]America is no stronger than its people - and that means you and me. Well I believe in you and I believe that if we work together then one day we will say ``We fought the good fight. We finished the race We kept the faith.'' And to our children and our children's children we can say ``We did all that could be done in the brief time that was given to us here on earth.
Ronald Reagan