Quotes About America

This year, as we celebrate the 230th anniversary of America's independence, please remember the symbols that are sacred to this country. Fly Old Glory high and show your respect and admiration for this great nation and the values we hold dear.

America is not a young land: it is old and dirty and evil before the settlers, before the Indians. The evil is there waiting.

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.

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.

This is America ... a brilliant diversity spread like stars, like a thousand points of light in a broad and peaceful sky.

We must recognize an unfortunate fact: In many regions of the world tonight, the reality is conflict, not peace. Enduring animosities and opposing interests remain. And thus, the cause of peace must be served by an America strong enough and sure enough to defend our interests and our ideals.

My view, is let Mike Dukakis go around there and talk about pink slips, despair, pessimism in the United States. I'll be the guy out there talking about hope and opportunity and challenge, and the fact that the United States is the best, the fairest, the most decent nation on the face of the earth. Let them apologize for America, and let me lead her to new greatness.

The most important competitiveness program of all is one which improves education in America. When some of our students actually have trouble locating America on a map of the world, it is time for us to map a new approach to education.

America was targeted for attack because we're the brightest beacon for freedom and opportunity in the world. And no one will keep that light from shining.

America is a great force for freedom and prosperity. Yet our greatness is not measured in power or luxuries, but by who we are and how we treat one another. So we strive to be a compassionate, decent, hopeful society.

Looking across this field, we see the scale of heroism and sacrifice. All who are buried here understood their duty. All stood to protect America. And all carried with them memories of a family that they hoped to keep safe by their sacrifice.

America must dream again, and have the faith to achieve the dream.

Two-sport all-state athlete, honor roll, Future Farmers of America award winner.

America's most dangerous diseases have developed an immunity to politics. We suffer not from a failure of political organization or power, but a failure of love.

I want the people of America to be able to work less for the government and more for themselves. I want them to have the rewards of their own industry. This is the chief meaning of freedom. Until we can reestablish a condition under which the earnings of the people can be kept by the people, we are bound to suffer a very severe and distinct curtailment of our liberty.

This country would not be a land of opportunity, America could not be America, if the people were shackled with government monopolies.

The Business of Our Firm is Business" -Donald W. Hudspeth from: "The Business of America is Business" -Calvin Coolidge

Idolizing heroes and falling for their seductive appeal is normal in America, but what is a mild drug to most is a poison for some people.

The solution to violence in America is the acceptance of reality

MOST BIG BESTSELLERS of the past deserve to be relegated to the damp bookshelves of guest bedrooms in country houses, but Thy Neighbor's Wife is not one of them. The writing of it took Talese nine years, and those years show, in the richness of the stories, in the density of detail, in the sweeping, panoramic view he gives us of America in flux.

Net als de Nederlandse Republiek in de 17e eeuw spiegelde Amerika zich aan het Bijbelverhaal van Israël, de Amerikanen zagen zichzelf als uitverkoren volk dat na veel ontberingen eindelijk het 'beloofde land' had bereikt.

Het vermogen van de rijkste vierhonderd Amerikanen is op dit moment groter dan dat van de armste honderdvijftig miljoen Amerikanen gezamenlijk.

Indeed, if their wristbands asked them the question: "What-Would-Jesus-Buy"—well now, that could very well revolutionize the Christian church in America.

America is therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the World's History shall reveal itself.