America quotes
September 5, 2010
It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters.
- Daniel Webster
With God's help, we can and will resolve the problems which now confront us. And, after all, why shouldn't we believe that? We are Americans.
- Ronald Reagan
If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.
- Abraham Lincoln
It is doubtful if American institutions and the American character could ever have evolved in Europe. The seed came from there but it took the sum of freedom and American soil to produce the fruit.
- Unknown
Our flag, one land, one heart, one hand, one nation evermore.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
All Americans must have the privileges of citizenship regardless of race. And they are going to have those privileges of citizenship regardless of race.
- Lyndon B. Johnson
America and England: and may they never have any division but the Atlantic between them.
- Charles Dickens
America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand.
- Woodrow Wilson
Americans...are not only hospitable in emergency but radiant. The most lavishly helpful people in the world, accepting the burden of nuisances as if they were bunches of hothouse flowers, all the more delightful because unexpected.
- Pamela Hansford
Though the people support the Government the Government should not support the people.
- Grover Cleveland
Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
- Robert F. Kennedy
We became not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.
- Jimmy Carter
America is a tune. It must be sung together.
- Gerald Stanley Lee
America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity. That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture, and the arts.
- James Madison
For we must consider that we shall be as a City upon a Hill. The eyes of all people are upon us; so that if we shall deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken and so cause Him to withdraw His present help from us, we shall be made a story and a byword through the world.
- John Winthrop
Just what is it that America stands for? If she stands for one thing more than another it is for the sovereignty of self-governing people
- Woodrow Wilson
May the world's wonder be American thunder.
- Unknown
Once I thought to write a history of the immigrants in America. Then I discovered that the immigrants were American history.
- Oscar Handlin
The American journey has not ended. America is never accomplished, America is always still to build...What is a country in the mind, and so eternal.
- Archibald MacLeish
The business of America is not business. Neither is it war. The business of America is justice, and securing the blessings of liberty.
- Georg F. Will