~ America and Americans Quotes ~

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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