America Quotes
Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?
The eyes of hope looking over the flare of the hood into the maw with its white line feeding in stra...
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Here I was at the end of America - no more land - and now there was nowhere to go but back.

So in America when the sun goes down and I sit on the old broken-down river pier watching the long, ...
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I suddenly realized I was in California. Warm, palmy air - air you can kiss - and palms.

Great laughter rang from all sides. I wondered what the Spirit of the Mountain was thinking, and loo...
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This is the story of America. Everybody's doing what they think they're supposed to do.

In order to lead a country or a company, you've got to get everybody on the same page and you've got...
Show MoreArnold had never given much thought to whether or not he loved America—but now it seemed pretty obvi...
Show MoreWhoever wants to know the hearts and minds of America had better learn baseball.
What did I learn in my travels? In whatever foreign country I visited I met dreamers who longed to r...
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The diverse threats we face are increasingly cyber-based. Much of America's most sensitive data is s...
Show MoreAmerica was first colonized by Puritans. Most of our earliest immigrants, and many since, have come ...
Show MoreThe United States is the wealthiest nation in the history of the world, yet its inhabitants are stri...
Show MoreChristopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover...
Show MoreI smiled at him. America, I said quietly, just like that. What is it? The sweepings of every country...
Show MoreAs a revolutionary people, we Americans won a probable victory over the best and biggest army in the...
Show MoreChina will soon emit more greenhouse gases than America, but its regime knows if it caps aspirations...
Show MoreJustice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been and ever will be ...
Show MoreI will to my dying day oppose, with all the powers and faculties God has given me, all such instrume...
Show MoreSince coming back from overseas, this is more of a foreign country than the places overseas. I don't...
Show MoreAs we look over the list of the early leaders of the republic, Washington, John Adams, Hamilton, and...
Show MoreAmerica's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is...
Show MoreIf Obama wanted to make radical changes to America's health long-term, all he has to do is treble th...
Show MoreRosa Parks sat so Martin Luther King could walk. Martin Luther King walked so Obama could run. Obama...
Show MoreBut this aura of an artificial menace was still necessary to conceal that they [Presidents] were no ...
Show More…sense of futility that comes from doing anything merely to prove to yourself that you can do it: ha...
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We criticize Americans for not being able either to analyse or conceptualize. But this is a wrong-he...
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We are fascinated by Ramses as Renaissance Christians were by the American Indians, those (human?) b...
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Why did this [Vietnam] war, so hard, so long, so ferocious, vanish from one day to the next as if by...
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Whence the possibility of an ideological analysis of Disneyland (L. Marin did it very well in Utopiq...
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Each segment of the worm is directly reproduced as a whole worm, just as each cell of the American C...
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I came to America with a dream and I made it. The dream became reality. America is built for success...
Show MorePrinces always are always happy to see developing among their subjects the taste for agreeable arts ...
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I was born near Slonim. I saw my home taken over by the Germans, my sister raped by the Russians and...
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If you're thinking of coming to America, this is what it's like: you've got your Comfort Inn, you've...
Show MoreI chose to personally support Donald Trump for president early on and referred to him as America's b...
Show MoreThey don't live here. They live in Heaven.'Where's that?'I don't know,' I said. 'Enos says it's righ...
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Many are observing Ferguson and witnessing the anger, demonstrations, looting and vandalism and call...
Show MoreWe call our country home of the brave and land of the free, but it's not. We give a false portrayal ...
Show MoreIf Waterboarding is okay, then why don't we let our police do it to criminals so they can find out w...
Show More...that in spite of living in a mansion an American is not above wearing a pair of secondhand pants,...
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America is a great country. It has a lot of work to do. The bottom line is it's easy to talk; it's e...
Show MoreYou're in America now," I said. "Our idea of diplomacy is showing up with a gun in one hand and a sa...
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Ours was the first nation to be founded on the idea that all are created equal and all deserve equal...
Show MoreUnfortunately, after Sept. 11, there was an outburst in America of intense suffering and patriotism,...
Show MorePolitics is pop. Our job as comedians - especially me, as a late-night talk show, which is a broader...
Show MoreThat we have made a hero of Howard Hughes tells us something interesting about ourselves, something ...
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As I've said many times, the single most oppressed class in America right now is the teenager.
Vice President Cheney has been the most dangerous vice president we've had probably in American hist...
Show MoreA diplomatic solution that puts significant and verifiable constraints on Iran's nuclear program rep...
Show MoreWe don't want two-tier people in America. Those who are legal but not citizens, and citizens.
Yesterday the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps...
Show MoreThere is nothing in which mankind have been more unanimous [founding nations upon superstition]; yet...
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I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand sce...
Show MoreAll the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitutio...
Show MoreSpending time with America's soldiers is always inspiring.
The great weakness of the West is that it has nothing with which to inspire loyalty except wealth. B...
Show MoreOur country is the best country in the world. We are swimming in prosperity and our President is the...
Show MoreAll scornful descriptions of American landscapes with ruined tenements, automobile dumps, polluted r...
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Our political system is now run by the Big People for their own interests. If they ever deign to not...
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Do you know how long God took to destroy the Tower of Babel, folks? Seven minutes. Do you know how l...
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The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never c...
Show MoreLet the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been pas...
Show MoreI look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty
We set sail on this new sea because there is new knowledge to be gained, and new rights to be won, a...
Show MoreWe are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philoso...
Show MoreGeography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners. And ne...
Show MoreAmerica has tossed its cap over the wall of space.
The interaction of disparate cultures, the vehemence of the ideals that led the immigrants here, the...
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I have seen them stagger out of their movie palaces and blink their empty eyes in the face of realit...
Show MoreShe had no need in her heart for either book or magazine. She had her own way of escape, her own pas...
Show MoreThis river is famed in atrocious song and verse; the most prevalent motif is one which attempts to m...
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Six-Pack didn't despise George W. Bush to the degree that Ketchum did, but she thought the president...
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Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social lif...
Show MoreLet the workers organize. Let the toilers assemble. Let their crystallized voice proclaim their inju...
Show MoreIf you give me the chance, I'll destroy America for you.
These were early days for me in the American culture, and so I wasn’t aware that when people are sho...
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But in view of the constitution, in the eye of the law, there is in this country no superior, domina...
Show MoreThe coniferous forests of the Yosemite Park, and of the Sierra in general, surpass all others of the...
Show MoreAmerica may be unique in being a country which has leapt from barbarism to decadence without touchin...
Show MorePolitics has become infused with narcissism in America.
America is the first culture in jeopardy of amusing itself to death.
America is the first culture in jeopardy of amusing itself to death.
America is the first culture in jeopardy of amusing itself to death.
America is the first culture in jeopardy of amusing itself to death.
Dreher laments we now live in a “post-Christian” America, but he’s wrong. The Americans who are stan...
Show MoreSomeone should write an erudite essay on the moral, physical, and esthetic effect of the Model T For...
Show MoreNot long ago, after my last trip to Russia, I had a conversation with an American very eminent in th...
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I learned to write nice as hell. Birds an' stuff like that, too; not just word writin'. My ol' man'l...
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But it isn't hunger that drives millions of armed American Males to forests and hills every autumn, ...
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American cities are like badger holes, ringed with trash -- all of them -- surrounded by piles of wr...
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I saw in their eyes something I was to see over and over in every part of the nation- a burning desi...
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Patrick Henry did not say, 'Give me absolutely safety or give me death.' America is supposed to be a...
Show MoreWhen the happy era shall arrive for the emancipation of nations, hastened on as it will be by the ex...
Show MoreThe Englishman is under no constitutional obligation to believe that all men are created equal. The ...
Show MoreFor this end, we must be knit together in this work as one man, we must entertain each other in brot...
Show MoreFrance, and the whole of Europe have a great culture and an amazing history. Most important thing th...
Show MoreNo one is better at not beating America than England.
Why did the Articles [of Confederation] fail so completely? Most historians believe the founding fat...
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