American quotes
September 5, 2010
America means opportunity, freedom, power.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
America is essentially a dream, a dream as yet unfulfilled. It is a dream of a land where men of all races, of all nationalities and of all creeds can live together as brothers.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
America is a tune. It must be sung together.
- Gerald Stanley Lee
America is too great for small dreams.
- Ronald Reagan
Be glad you're living in a land where you can say what you think without thinking.
- Unknown
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past.
- Patrick Henry
It seems a little ridiculous now, but this country was originally founded as a protest against taxation.
- Unknown
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, to assure the survival and success of liberty.
- John F. Kennedy
We've got to do a better job of getting across that America is freedom -freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of enterprise...Let's start with some basics: more attention to American history, and a greater emphasis on civic ritual.
- Ronald Reagan
America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses.
- Woodrow Wilson
America means opportunity, freedom, power.
- Emerson
And so, my fellow Americans ask not what your country can do for you---ask what you can do for your country. 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
Abraham Lincoln belongs not only to the ages, but to all humanity. Immortality is his in the hearts of all who love freedom, everywhere in the world. Each year two million people visit the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. In New Delhi, India, a Lincoln Society is establishing a museum in his honor. High school students in Tokyo last summer ranked Lincoln as the most respected of all world figures.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
I love America more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.
- James Baldwin
America has been another name for opportunity.
- Frederick J. Turner
If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.
- Harriet Martineau
This will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.
- Elmer Davis
I ask only that what every self-respecting American demands from himself and from his sons shall be demanded of the American nation as a whole.
- Theodore Roosevelt
If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union, or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.
- Thomas Jefferson