Quotes About the United States of America

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I love America more than any other country in this world; and,

exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize herperpetually. ~James Baldwin

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

America is a tune. It must be sung together. ~Gerald StanleyLee,Crowds

What is the essence of America? Finding and maintaining thatperfect, delicate balance between freedom "to" and freedom "from."~Marilyn vos Savant, in Parade
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If you want a symbolic gesture, dont burn the flag; wash it.

~Norman Thomas

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

What the people want is very simple. They want an America as good

as its promise. ~Barbara Jordan

Yet America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the

imagination, and it will not wait long for metres. ~Ralph WaldoEmerson, "The Poet," Essays, Second Series, 1844

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

This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the

home of the brave. ~Elmer Davis

America is a passionate idea or it is nothing. America is a humanbrotherhood or it is chaos. ~Max Lerner,Actions and Passions, 1949


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

~Aurora Raigne

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

Some Americans need hyphens in their names, because only part ofthem 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 hisname. ~Woodrow Wilson

America is great because it has as much diversity in geographies as it

does in peoples. ~Aurora Raigne

America is Gods crucible, the great Melting-Pot where all the racesof 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 ofall races. ~Israel Zangwill

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


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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 freedomlives and in which a man can draw the breath of self-respect. ~AdlaiStevenson

If you take advantage of everything America has to offer, theresnothing you cant accomplish. ~Geraldine Ferraro

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

We cannot reform the world. Uncle Sugar is as dangerous a role for

us to play as Uncle Shylock. ~John F. Kennedy

To me, being an American means feeling safe. ~CurrieleneArmstrong

Only Americans can hurt America. ~Dwight D. Eisenhower


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My favorite thing about the United States? Lots of Americans, oneAmerica. ~Val Saintsbury

Of all the supervised conditions for life offered man, those underU S As constitution have proved the best. Wherefore, be sure when

you start modifying, corrupting or abrogating it. ~Martin H. Fischer

Americas one of the finest countries anyone ever stole. ~Bobcat

Goldthwaite

We on this continent should never forget that men first crossed the

Atlantic not to find soil for their ploughs but to secure liberty fortheir souls. ~Robert J. McCracken

When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called Americabefore the white man came, an Indian said simply, "Ours." ~Vine

Deloria, Jr.

Ours is the only country deliberately founded on a good idea. ~John

Gunther

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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Dont forget to stop every once in a while and actually thank God for

blessing America he gets a lot of requests, you know. ~CarrieLatet

It is the flag just as much of the man who was naturalized yesterday

as of the men whose people have been here many generations.~Henry Cabot Lodge

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

We sleep peacefully at night, cradled by the big strong hands of

America. ~Val Saintsbury

What we need are critical lovers of America patriots who express

their faith in their country by working to improve it. ~Hubert H.Humphrey

The United States is the only country with a known birthday. ~JamesG. Blaine


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Oh, its home again and home again, America for me!

I want a ship thats westward bound to plough the rolling sea

To the blessed land of Room Enough beyond the ocean bars,

Where the air is full of sunlight and the flag is full of stars.

~Henry Van Dyke

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

What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.~Will Rogers

If you can speak three languages youre trilingual. If you can speak

two languages youre bilingual. If you can speak only one languageyoure an American. ~Author Unknown

Very little is known about the War of 1812 because the Americans

lost it. ~Eric Nicol

America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gonedirectly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval ofcivilization. ~Georges Clemenceau


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The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of

the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples. ~WalterLippman

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

America is much more than a geographical fact. It is a political andmoral fact the first community in which men set out in principle to

institutionalize freedom, responsible government, and humanequality. ~Adlai Stevenson

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

The skies of happiness shine upon these United States of America.

~Terri Guillemets

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


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

~Herman Melville

What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he

ever mentioned it. ~Margot Asquith

Rachel: The pilgrims came here to escape persecution from the

British.

Elizabeth: Yes, so they could go about persecuting the Indians.

~ER, "Great Expectations"

Aborigines, n.: Persons of little worth found cumbering the soil of a

newly discovered country. They soon cease to cumber; they

fertilize. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devils Dictionary

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

~Will Rogers

America is the only country ever founded on the printed word.

~Marshall McLuhan


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I will never admit that the beloved flag is to me merely the symbol of

a land where I can live in rich content and make money. ~HenryCabot Lodge

We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.~Benjamin Harrison, address to Congress, 1888

The winds that blow through the wide sky in these mounts, the windsthat sweep from Canada to Mexico, from the Pacific to the Atlantic

have always blown on free men. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt

The pilgrims were kicked out of England, quarreled with the Dutch,

alienated the Indians, and had an evil reputation among the turkeys.~Dave Beard

I pledge allegiance to my Flag and the Republic for which it stands,one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. ~FrancisBellamy, The Youths Companion, 8 September 1892

America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions ofstarving people. ~Gloria Steinem

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


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America is a place where Jewish merchants sell Zen love beads to

agnostics for Christmas. ~John Burton Brimer

The metaphor of the melting pot is unfortunate and misleading. Amore accurate analogy would be a salad bowl, for, though the salad

is an entity, the lettuce can still be distinguished from the chicory,the tomatoes from the cabbage. ~Carl N. Degler

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

What the American public doesnt know is what makes them the

American public. ~From the movie Tommy Boy

There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. Thereal American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong.

~G.K. Chesterton

Americans are so enamored of equality, they would rather be equal

in slavery than unequal in freedom. ~Alexis de Tocqueville


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Here we write well when we expose frauds and hypocrites. We are

great at counting warts and blemishes and weighting feet of clay. Inexpressing love, we belong among the underdeveloped countries.

~Saul Bellow, about America

America is a country that doesnt know where it is going but is

determined to set a speed record getting there. ~Laurence J. Peter

Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America

that we are fixed and certain only when we are in movement.~Thomas Wolfe

I bet after seeing us, George Washington would sue us for callinghim "father." ~Will Rogers

No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the Americanpublic. ~H.L. Mencken

Americans like fat books and thin women. ~Russell Baker


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We need a type of patriotism that recognizes the virtues of thosewho are opposed to us. We must get away from the idea that

America is to be the leader of the world in everything. She can leadin some things. The old "manifest destiny" idea ought to be modifiedso that each nation has the manifest destiny to do the best it can and that without cant, without the assumption of self-righteousness

and with a desire to learn to the uttermost from other nations.~Francis John McConnell

America just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmenwith 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

Any American who is prepared to run for president shouldautomatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.

~Gore Vidal

I just dont know why theyre shooting at us. All we want to do is

bring them democracy and white bread. Transplant the Americandream. Freedom. Achievement. Hyperacidity. Affluence.

Flatulence. Technology. Tension. The inalienable right to an earlycoronary sitting at your desk while plotting to stab your boss in theback. ~Hawkeye "O.R."

I pledge allegiance to the earth and to the flora, fauna and humanlife that it supports, one planet indivisible, with safe air, water & soil,economic justice, equal rights and peace for all. ~Author unknown,

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America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags

its tail it knocks over a chair. ~Arnold Toynbee

We have the Bill of Rights. What we need is a Bill ofResponsibilities. ~Bill Maher

It is a pity that instead of the Pilgrim Fathers landing on PlymouthRock, Plymouth Rock had not landed on the Pilgrim Fathers.

~Chauncey Depew, at an 1881 New England Society meeting in NewYork

What this country needs is more free speech worth listening to.

~Hansell B. Duckett

Sitting at the table doesnt make you a diner, unless you eat some ofwhats on that plate. Being here in America doesnt make you an

American. Being born here in America doesnt make you anAmerican. ~Malcolm X

Oh Beautiful for smoggy skies, insecticided grain,

For strip-mined mountains majesty above the asphalt plain.


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America, America, man sheds his waste on thee,

And hides the pines with billboard signs, from sea to oily sea.

~George Carlin

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

States! Go put your creed into your deed. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myselfwould say that it had merely been detected. ~Oscar Wilde

I dont feel we did wrong in taking this great country away fromthem. There were great numbers of people who needed new land,and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.

~John Wayne

a "land of the free" that struggles under the incredible burden of

limitless taxes and laws; the home of the "brave" who stay silent tokeep their jobs and avoid scrutiny by the IRS or the police. ~Fred

Woodworth, The Match!, No. 74


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The fact is that Americans are not a thoughtful people; they are toobusy to stop and question their values. ~William Ralph

They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but theykept only one; they promised to take our land, and they did. ~Red

Cloud

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

America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, butone thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She

may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isnt standing still.~e.e. cummings

America is a great big heart attack. ~Carrie Latet

The American experiment is the most tremendous and far reaching

engine of social change which has ever either blessed or cursedmankind. ~Charles Francis Adams


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There is a malaise that exists in your land what appears to many asthe sudden and tragic disappearance of the American dream which,

in some ways, has turned to nightmare. ~J.J. Greene

Being an American is a spectator sport. ~Brock Fiant

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with theblood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure. ~Thomas

Jefferson

It has been an unchallengeable American doctrine that cranberry

sauce, a pink goo with overtones of sugared tomatoes, is a delectablenecessity of the Thanksgiving board and that turkey is uneatable

without it. There are some things in every country that you must beborn to endure; and another hundred years of general satisfactionwith Americans and America could not reconcile this expatriate to

cranberry sauce, peanut butter, and drum majorettes. ~AlistairCooke

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

America! half-brother of the world!

With something good and bad of every land.

~Philip James Bailey


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You have to be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities

they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination. ~CharlesDe Gaulle, Time, 8 December 1967

If you surveyed a hundred typical middle-aged Americans, I bet

youd find that only two of them could tell you their blood types, butevery last one of them would know the theme song from The Beverly

Hillbillies. ~Dave Barry

[T]he American is a gentle guy; but dont pressure him; if you do he

turns toad and squirts poison. ~Martin H. Fischer

America is just the country that shows how all the writtenguarantees in the world for freedom are no protection againsttyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician hascome to be looked upon as the very scum of society. ~PeterKroptkin, speech, 1891

He only salutes the flag with one finger. ~The Simpsons

I feel that I am a citizen of the American dream and that therevolutionary struggle of which I am a part is a struggle against theAmerican nightmare. ~Eldridge Cleaver


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

Murray Butler

The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democraticpaint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colors

breaking through. ~Alexis de Tocqueville

Every time Europe looks across the Atlantic to see the American

Eagle, it observes only the rear end of an ostrich. ~H.G. Wells

In America, with all its evils and faults, you can still reach through

the forest and see the sun. But we do not know yet whether the sun

is rising or setting for our country. ~Dick Gregory, 1964

Americans always try to do the right thing after theyve triedeverything else. ~Winston Churchill

America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, Iam afraid, it is not going to be a success. ~Sigmund Freud


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Were Americans with a capital A! And do you know what thatmeans? Do you? It means that our forefathers were kicked out of

every decent country in the world. ~From the movie Stripes

I love America. Its Americans I cant stand. ~Attributed to both

Charles Shultz and Bill Maher

We are quite rich enough to defend ourselves, whatever the cost.

We must now learn that we are quite rich enough to educate

ourselves as we need to be educated. ~Walter Lippmann

One characteristic of Americans is that they have no tolerance at allof anybody putting up with anything. We believe that whatever is

going wrong ought to be fixed. ~Margaret Mead

Americans think of themselves collectively as a huge rescue squad on

twenty-four-hour call to any spot on the globe where dispute andconflict may erupt. ~Eldridge Cleaver

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


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

Intellectually I know that America is no better than any othercountry; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.

~Sinclair Lewis

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