Quotes About America

If there is one word that describes our form of society in America, it may be the word-voluntary.

There exists in some parts of the world sanctimonious criticism of America's death penalty, as somehow unworthy of a civilized society.

I really think that's the key, part of the spiritual renewal that America needs to have, the notion that we really can have confidence in a better tomorrow.

Satan is attacking the great institutions of America. This is a spiritual war. I believe in good and evil.

I'm a spiritual person, I'm an America, I'm a Jew, and all of those things influence every breath I take, everywhere I go.

Jeep is America's only real sports car.

In the States, tennis is sixth or seventh on the totem pole as far as sports go.

I think it puts baseball back on the map as a sport. It's America's pastime and just look at everyone coming out to the ballpark. It has been an exciting year.

Boxing has become America's tragic theater.

My introduction to track racing was through the background of cross country running, which is not a sport perhaps as popular in America as it is in England.

I came to America because of the great, great freedom which I heard existed in this country. I made a mistake in selecting America as a land of freedom, a mistake I cannot repair in the balance of my lifetime.

Les américains sont le seul peuple a être passé directement de la barbarie à la décadence sans passer par ce que l'on nomme ailleurs : Civilisation !

American Notes

But neither Europe nor Africa can show any such desolation as America. The proudest, stubbornest, bitterest peasant of deserted Spain, the most primitive and superstitious Arab of the remotest oases, are a little more than kin and never less than kind at their worst; whereas in the United States one is almost always conscious of an instinctive lack of sympathy and understanding with even the most charming and cultured people.

Y si lo de Nueva Córdoba cobraba cuerpo, podría contarse, en última instancia, con la ayuda de Estados Unidos, ya que la Casa Blanca estaba opuesta, ahora más que nunca, a toda germinación de movimientos anarquizantes, socializantes, en esta América de abajo, harto revoltosa y latina.

I know that societies often have killed people who have helped to change those societies. And if I can die having brought any light, having exposed any meaningful truth that will help destroy the racist cancer that is malignant in the body of America, then, all credit is due to Allah. Only the mistakes have been mine. - el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz

She had noticed that there was a tendency on the part of some Americans to believe that everybody, deep inside, wanted to live in America, and that it was inexplicable that people who could do so did not.

Time was the first thing I noticed about the United States.

although he knew very little about American history, or pop culture, he'd fundamentally understood the place, cut to its original wound. "A bit racialist, aren't they?" he'd observed.

The future of America is bound up in the present crisis. If America is to remain a first-class nation, it cannot have a second-class citizenship.

I do have my ducks in line if I want to do it, but I'd love to see the Republicans pick somebody that was going to win and take over this country and frankly, to use the expression, 'Make America great again.'

No longer did Americans see themselves as nourished and watered by a crystalline Lake Placid; now they saw themselves as inundated in the east by an Adriatic assault joined to a dark Guinea Gulf tidal wave and in the west by a Yellow Sea tsunami. Never before had Americans felt so crushing a need to make America great and white again.

You can't have a university without having free speech, even though at times it makes us terribly uncomfortable. If students are not going to hear controversial ideas on college campuses, they're not going to hear them in America. I believe it's part of their education.

Some people claim we have a Christian heritage in America that needs restoring, but such a claim is debatable and is not well supported by the evidence. We have no biblical warrant to deify the past. Consequently, I find it difficult and possibly wasteful to try to identify just what part of our heritage was Christian in hopes that we can somehow get back to it.