American Quotes
September 5, 2010
Let our objective be our country, our whole country, and nothing but our country. And by the blessing of God may that country itself become a vast and splendid monument, not of oppression and terror, but of wisdom, of peace, and of liberty, upon which the world may gaze with admiration forever.
- Daniel Webster
Let us remember that our interest is in concord, not in conflict; and that our real eminence rests in the victories of peace, not those of war.
- William McKinley
May the liberties of America never be clipped by the shears of bad economy.
- Unknown
Mr. Speaker, Mr. President, Members of the House, Members of the Senate, my fellow Americans, all I have I would have given gladly not to be standing here today.
- Lyndon Baines Johnson
No system of government can hope long to survive the cynical disregard of both law and principle which government in America regularly exhibits.
- Suzanne LaFollette
Now the only way to avoid this shipwreck and to provide for our posterity is to follow the counsel of Micah: to do justly, to love mercy, to walk humbly with our God. For this end, we must be knit together in this work as one man. We must entertain each other in brotherly affection. We must be willing to abridge our selves of our superfluities, for the supply of others' necessities. We must uphold a familiar commerce together in all meekness, gentleness, patience, and liberality. We must delight in each other, make others' conditions our own-rejoice together, mourn together, labor and suffer together, always having before our eyes our commission and community in the work, our community as members of the same body. So shall we keep the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace.
- John Winthrop
Of all the great national statesmen in history, Lincoln is the only giant.
- Leo Tolstoi
On September the 11th, enemies of freedom committed an act of war against our country.
- George W. Bush
Only in America could a refugee girl from Europe become Secretary of State.
- Madeleine Albright
Our country, Congress, cash, and courage.
- Unknown
Our own freedom and growth have never been the final goal of the American dream. We were never meant to be an oasis of liberty and abundance in a worldwide desert of disappointed dreams. Our Nation was created to help strike away the chains of ignorance and misery and tyranny wherever they keep man less than God wants him to be.
- Lyndon B. Johnson
Remember the Alamo!
- Sidney Sherman
Since September 11, an entire generation of young Americans has gained new understanding of the value of freedom and its cost and duty and its sacrifice. The battle is now joined on many fronts.
- George W. Bush
Sir, we are not weak, if we make a proper use of the means which the God of nature hath placed in our power. Three millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us. Besides, sir, we shall not fight our battles alone. There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations, and who will raise friend to fight our battles for us. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it I to the vigilant, the active, the brave.
- Patrick Henry
That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State, or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward and forever free.
- Abraham Lincoln
That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.
- Neil Armstrong
The cause of America is, in a great measure, the cause of all mankind.
- Thomas Paine
The cement of this Union is the heart blood of every American.
- Thomas Jefferson
The chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world.
- Calvin Coolidge