famous American quotes
September 5, 2010
America is a land of wonders, in which everything is in constant motion and every change seems an improvement.
- Alexis de Tocqueville
America is God's Crucible, the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and reforming! Germans and Frenchmen, Irishmen and Englishmen, Jews and Russians-into the crucible with you all! God is making the American.
- Israel Zangwill
America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world.
- George Bush
America is not like a blanket-one piece of unbroken cloth, the same color, the same texture, the same size. America is more like a quilt-many patches, many pieces, many colors, many sizes, all woven and held together by a common thread.
- Jesse Jackson
America is successful because of the hard work, and creativity, and enterprise of our people. These were the true strengths of our economy before September 11th, and they are our strengths today.
- George W. Bush
America is the only place where man is full grown!
- O. W. Holmes
American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.
- Henry Adams
Americanism consists in utterly believing in the principles of America.
- Woodrow Wilson
Ask noting that is not clearly right, and submit to nothing that is wrong.
- Andrew Jackson
Every American owns all America
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
Great has been the Greek, the Latin, the Slav, the Celt, the Teuton, and the Anglo-Saxon, but greater than any of these is the American, in which are blended the virtues of them all.
- William Jennings Bryan
Great tragedy has come to us, and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with courage and concern for others. Because this is America. This is who we are.
- George W. Bush
Here (in America) individuals of all nations are melted into a new race of men.
- Michel Guillaume Jean De Crevecceur
Here's to an honest man-the noblest work of God.
- Unknown
If a man is going to be an American at all let him be so without any qualifying adjectives; and if he is going to be something else, let him drop the word American from his personal description.
- Henry Cabot Lodge
It is probably a pity that every citizen of each state cannot visit all the others, to see the differences, to learn what we have in common, and to come back with a richer, fuller understanding of America-in all its beauty, in all its dignity, in all its strength, in support of moral principle.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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.
- Wood row Wilson
Keep 'em flying!
- Unknown
No matter how long it may take us to overcome the premeditated invasion, the American people, in their righteous might, will win through to absolute victory.
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
- John Adams