American Quotes
September 5, 2010
The crowning growth of the United States is to be spiritual and heroic
- Walt Whitman
The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you.
- General Dwight D. Eisenhower
The flags of freedom fly all over Europe.
- Harry S. Truman
The greatest honor history can bestow is the title of peacemaker. This honor now beckons America-the chance to help lead the world at last out of the valley of the turmoil and on to that high ground of peace that man has dreamed of since the dawn of civilization.
- Richard M. Nixon
The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation.
- William McKinley
The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence. Property must be secured, or liberty cannot exist.
- John Adams
The United States is like a gigantic boiler. Once the fire is lighted under it there is no limit to the power it can generate.
- Lord Grey
The Unity of Government, which constitutes you one people, is also now dear to you.-It is justly so; for it is a main Pillar in the Edifice of your real independence; the support of your tranquility at home; your peace abroad; of your safety; of your prosperity in every shape; of that very Liberty, which you so highly prize.
- George Washington
This is the Land we love, our heritage, strange mixture of the gross and fine, yet sage. And full of promise-destined to be great. Drink to Our Native Land! God Bless the State!
- Robert Bridges
This land is your land, this land is my land, from California to the New York Island. From the redwood forest to the Gulf Stream waters, this land was made for you and me.
- Woody Guthrie
This principle of free governments adheres to the American soil. It is bedded in it-immovable as its mountains.
- Daniel Webster
Thousands of lives were suddenly ended by evil, despicable acts of terror. The pictures of airplanes flying into buildings, fires burning, huge structures collapsing have filled us with disbelief, terrible sadness, and a quiet, unyielding anger.
- George w. Bush
To our country: May her literary men do her honor by speaking the truth, of her and all things, may they give her immortality by making the truth eloquent and beautiful.
- Woodrow Wilson
We always knew that Americans were smart people. Stupid people could not have risen to the economic level that they've reached.
- Nikita Khrushchev
We Americans are vitally concerned in your defense of freedom. We are putting forth our energies, our resources and our organizing powers to give you the strength to regain and maintain a free world. We shall send you, in ever-increasing numbers, ships, planes, tanks, guns. This is our purpose and our pledge.
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt
We are apt to think it the finest era of the world when America was beginning to be discovered, when a bold sailor, even if he were wrecked, might alight on a new kingdom.
- George Eliot
We are bound to maintain public liberty, and by example of our own nation, to convince the world that order and law, religion and morality, the rights of conscience, the rights of persons, and the rights of property may all be preserved and secured.
- Daniel Webster
We are determined to make every American citizen the subject of his country's interest and concern; and we will never regard any faithful, law-abiding group within our borders as superfluous. The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much, it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt
We go forth all to seek America. And in the seeking we create her. In the quality of our search shall be the nature of the America that we created.
- Waldo Frank