Quotes on America (Part 2), quotations and aphorisms on America and the United States, the country and its great people.
I don’t see America as a mainland, but as a sea, a big ocean. Sometimes a storm arises, a formidable current develops, and it seems it will engulf everything. Wait a moment, another current will appear and bring the first one to naught.
Jacques Maritain
The great and admirable strength of America consists in this, that America is truly the American people.
Jacques Maritain
America – a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose.
Herbert Hoover
I’m not going to quit. Why should I quit? This country is worth fighting for.
Hillary Rodham Clinton
This is the story of America. Everybody’s doing what they think they’re supposed to do.
Jack Kerouac
In a country as big as the United States, you can find fifty examples of anything.
Jeffery F. Chamberlain
Our American values are not luxuries but necessities, not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. Our common vision of a free and just society is our greatest source of cohesion at home and strength abroad, greater than the bounty of our material blessings.
Jimmy Carter
All the perplexities, confusions, and distress in America arise, not from defects in their constitution or confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit, and circulation.
John Adams
I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.
John Adams
I look forward to an america in which commands respect throughout the world, not only for its strength, but for its civilization as well. And I look forward to a world in which we will be safe not only for democracy and diversity but also for personal distinction.
John F. Kennedy
I believe America’s best days are ahead of us because I believe that the future belongs to freedom, not to fear.
John Kerry
America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.
John Updike
There are three social classes in America: upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class.
Judith Martin
The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.
King Edward VIII
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
America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered.
Louis D. Brandeis
America is not merely a nation but a nation of nations.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.
Margaret Thatcher
Europe will never be like America. Europe is a product of history. America is a product of philosophy.
Margaret Thatcher
What a pity, when Christopher Colombus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.
Margot Asquith
America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.
Sigmund Freud
Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!
Thomas A. Edison
Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies.
Woody Allen
It’s the movies that have really been running things in America ever since they were invented. They show you what to do, how to do it, when to do it, how to feel about it, and how to look how you feel about it.
Andy Warhol
What’s great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest.
Andy Warhol
Once you ‘got’ Pop, you could never see a sign again the same way again. And once you thought Pop, you could never see America the same way again.
Andy Warhol
I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.
Bob Dylan
I have no further use for America. I wouldn’t go back there if Jesus Christ was President.
Charlie Chaplin
The glamour of it all! New York! America!
Charlie Chaplin
America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.
Frederick Douglass
I rememeber one time we were getting ready to go to South America and everything was packed up and in the car ready to go and I hid and I was crying because I really did not want to go, I wanted to play. I did not want to go.
Michael Jackson
America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there.
Will Rogers
America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.
Will Rogers
There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.
Bill Clinton
America’s one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
Bobcat Goldthwaite
There’s the country of America, which you have to defend, but there’s also the idea of America. America is more than just a country, it’s an idea. An idea that’s supposed to be contagious.
Bono
I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the crimson light of a rising sun fresh from the burning, creative hand of God. I see great days ahead, great days possible to men and women of will and vision.
Carl Sandburg
The trouble with America is that there are far too many wide-open spaces surrounded by teeth.
Charles Luckman
America is the greatest, freest and most decent society in existence. It is an oasis of goodness in a desert of cynicism and barbarism. This country, once an experiment unique in the world, is now the last best hope for the world.
Dinesh D’Souza
There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence and energy of her citizens cannot cure.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.
Frank Zappa
America is therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the World’s History shall reveal itself.
Georg W. Hegel
England and America are two countries separated by a common language.
George Bernard Shaw
The business of America is not business. Neither is it war. The business of america is justice and securing the blessings of liberty.
George F. Will
America is a young country with an old mentality.
George Santayana
America has never been an empire. We may be the only great power in history that had the chance, and refused – preferring greatness to power and justice to glory.
George W. Bush
America has never been united by blood or birth or soil. We are bound by ideals that move us beyond our backgrounds, lift us above our interests and teach us what it means to be citizens.
George W. Bush
America will never run… And we will always be grateful that liberty has found such brave defenders.
George W. Bush
By heritage and by choice, the United States of America will make that stand.
George W. Bush
In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. That is what makes America what it is.
Gertrude Stein
What’s right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity – intellect and resources – to do some thing about them.
Henry Ford II
I believe with all my heart that America remains ‘the great idea’ that inspires the world. It is a privilege to be born here. It is an honor to become a citizen here. It is a gift to raise your family here, to vote here, and to live here.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
As you know, I’m an immigrant. I came over here as an immigrant, and what gave me the opportunities, what made me to be here today, is the open arms of Americans. I have been received. I have been adopted by America.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
