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- America, thou half-brother of the world;
- With something good and bad of every land.
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY, Festus
The bosom of America is open to receive not only the Opulent and respectable Stranger, but the oppressed and persecuted of all Nations And Religions; whom we shall wellcome to a participation of all our rights and previleges, if by decency and propriety of conduct they appear to merit the enjoyment.
GEORGE WASHINGTON, letter, Dec. 2, 1783
I still believe in a place called Hope, a place called America.
BILL CLINTON, speech at Democratic National Convention, August 29, 1996
There are two Americas. One is the America of Lincoln and Adlai Stevenson; the other is the America of Teddy Roosevelt and the modern superpatriots. One is generous and humane, the other narrowly egotistical; one is self-critical, the other self-righteous; one is sensible, the other romantic; one is good-humored, the other solemn; one is inquiring, the other pontificating; one is moderate, the other filled with passionate intensity; one is judicious and the other arrogant in the use of great power.
J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT, The Arrogance of Power
America is a land of big dreamers and big hopes. It is this hope that has sustained us through revolution and civil war, depression and world war, a struggle for civil and social rights and the brink of nuclear crisis. And it is because our dreamers dreamed that we have emerged from each challenge more united, more prosperous, and more admired than before.
BARACK OBAMA, speech, Jun. 4, 2005
This is the story of America. Everybody's doing what they think they're supposed to do.
JACK KEROUAC, On the Road
Our nation is the enduring dream of every immigrant who ever set foot on these shores, and the millions still struggling to be free. This nation, this idea called America, was and always will be a new world -- our new world.
GEORGE H.W. BUSH, State of the Union Address, Jan. 31, 1990
America needs to be a lot more like the Waltons and a lot less like the Simpsons.
There is not a Black America and a White America and Latino America and Asian America; there's the United States of America.
BARACK OBAMA, Of Thee I Speak: A Collection of Patriotic Quotes
I'm in love with this country called America. I'm a huge fan of America, I'm one of those annoying fans, you know the ones that read the CD notes and follow you into bathrooms and ask you all kinds of annoying questions about why you didn't live up to that ... I'm that kind of fan. I read the Declaration of Independence and I've read the Constitution of the United States, and they are some liner notes, dude.
America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen ... but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.
SIGMUND FREUD, Ronald W. Clark's Freud: The Man and His Cause
This is America ... a brilliant diversity spread like stars, like a thousand points of light in a broad and peaceful sky.
GEORGE H.W. BUSH, RNC acceptance speech, August 18, 1988
[America is] the land where people find whatever they have lost.
GUNTER GRASS, The Tin Drum
America's abundance was created not by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes. They did not starve the people to pay for America's industrialization. They gave the people better jobs, higher wages, and cheaper goods with every new machine they invented, with every scientific discovery or technological advance -- and thus the whole country was moving forward and profiting, not suffering, every step of the way.
AYN RAND, Capitalism: The Unknown Deal
Because of what America is and what America has done, a firmer courage, a higher hope, inspires the heart of all humanity.
CALVIN COOLIDGE, inaugural address, Mar. 4, 1925
American’s greatest deficit is no longer found in the federal budget. It is a moral deficit, and it may be found in a polluted and poisoned culture that has become the great enemy within.
PAT BUCHANAN, speech, Mar. 2, 1999
America is a conservative country with a small “c” - they want change, but they don’t want too much change too fast.
HOWARD DEAN, speech, Mar. 6, 2004
Young man, there is America -- which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men, and uncouth manners; yet shall, before you taste of death, show itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now attracts the envy of the world.
EDMUND BURKE, speech on conciliation with America, 1775
America is not just a country, it's an idea.
My conception of America is a land where men and women may walk in ordered freedom in the independent conduct of their occupations; where they may enjoy the advantages of wealth, not concentrated in the hands of the few but spread through the lives of all; where they build and safeguard their homes, and give to their children the fullest advantages and opportunities of American life; where every man shall be respected in the faith that his conscience and his heart direct him to follow; where a contented and happy people, secure in their liberties, free from poverty and fear, shall have the leisure and impulse to seek a fuller life.
HERBERT HOOVER, speech, Oct. 22, 1928
America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense, it is the other way round. Human rights invented America.
JIMMY CARTER, Farewell Address, Jan. 14, 1981
That is the true genius of America, a faith in the simple dreams of its people, the insistence on small miracles. That we can say what we think, write what we think, without hearing a sudden knock on the door. That we can have an idea and start our own business without paying a bribe or hiring somebody's son. That we can participate in the political process without fear of retribution, and that our votes will be counted -- or at least, most of the time.
BARACK OBAMA, speech at 2004 Democratic Convention
The chief business of the American people is business.
CALVIN COOLIDGE, speech, Jan. 17, 1925
We have no desire to be the world's policeman. But America does want to be the world's peacemaker.
JIMMY CARTER, State of the Union Address, Jan. 25, 1979
America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.
JOHN UPDIKE, Problems and Other Stories
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