Quotes About America

No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.

It was the only free country left in the world," he once said, not talking about America but about rock'n'roll in America, or anywhere else. "No boundaries, no passports. There wasn't even a government.

I read in the newspapers they are going to have 30 minutes of intellectual stuff on television every Monday from 7:30 to 8. to educate America. They couldn't educate America if they started at 6:30.

We will not forget that Liberty has here made her home; nor shall her chosen altar be neglected.

You simplify because you cannot believe. You reduce; you diminish. Because you were raised to doubt and debunk. To reduce to a small set of knowns for easy digestion. Because you are a doctor, a man of science, and because this is America—where everything is known and understood, and God is a benevolent dictator, and the future must always be bright.

Customs inspectors could not stop the export of software through telephone lines; labour inspectors could not stop software engineers from talking to customers in America at night; excise inspectors could not harass the IT firms because the government did not levy tax on services. Much like Gurgaon, India's knowledge economy literally grew at night when the government slept.

Socialism in America will come through the ballot box.

The oldest city in the United States is St. Augustine, Florida, founded by Spaniards in 1565,

I've taken the liberty of sending your work to America. One of our former colonies across the water. They've handled their independence rather well, I always think.

The Rise, Decline, and Resurgence of America's Most Powerful Mafia Empires,

I spend a good portion of my dinner-party conversation defending America because no matter what the political agenda, it's still a fantastic, amazing place.

I do think that it is impossible to do Christian theology with integrity in America without asking the question, What has the gospel to do with the black struggle for liberation?

How could any theologian explain the meaning of Christian identity in America and fail to engage white supremacy, its primary negation?

I believe that we are lost here in America. But I believe we were all born to be loving people and hope we never forget seeing what love can heal…

I believe, that we are lost here in America. But, I believe we were all born to be loving people and I believe, we never forget seeing what love can heal…

I smiled at him. America, I said quietly, just like that. What is it? The sweepings of every country including our own. Isn't that true? That's a fact.

passed Grogan's the Tobacconist against which newsboards leaned and told of a dreadful catastrophe in New York. In America those things were continually happening. Unfortunate people to die like that, unprepared. Still, an act of perfect contrition.

Do you realize there was a time when the United States of America actually made sense? A time when you could look at a Norman Rockwell painting of a GI peeling potatoes for Mom and get all choked up and nobody'd laugh at you?

symbolize the ruinous consequence of America's decision to abandon the republic that the entire world admired and loved.

I have long believed that my generation is a transitional one and will be the last to remember what we refer to as traditional America.

I believed Jimmy had an enormous capacity for either good or evil, and that his spirit was as capricious as a wind vane. F. Scott Fitzgerald once said no one could understand America without understanding the graves of Shiloh. I think the same could have been said of Jimmy Nightingale.

Yankee" in all three senses of the word: Americans; residents of northern states in particular; and New Englanders especially. Of 143 important inventions patented in the United States from 1790 to 1860, 93 percent came out of the free states and nearly half from New England alone—

American whites somehow were able collectively to love liberty, recognize the evils of slavery, and tolerate slavery, all at the same

that Old Man kept writing letters and squawking and hollering 'bout slavery, sounding off like the devil to every newspaper in America that would listen, and they was listening, for them insurrections scared the devil out the white man. It set the table for the war that was to come, is what it did, for nothing scared the South more than the idea of niggers running 'round with guns and wanting to be free.