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Quotes About America

No one can match America. We have big hearts—and the courage to do what's right. But we're not the world's policemen. And if we have to take on that role, we need to send a clear message that protection comes at a price. If other countries benefit from our armed forces protecting them, those countries should cover the costs. Period.
~ Donald Trump
America has always been the land of dreams because America is a nation of true believers. When the pilgrims landed at Plymouth they prayed. When the Founders wrote the Declaration of Independence, they invoked our creator four times, because in America we don't worship government, we worship God.
~ Donald Trump
The story of America is the story of an adventure that began with deep faith, big dreams and humble beginnings.
~ Donald Trump
In America, the rich man tries to pretend that the poor man is his equal in every respect but money, which is simply not true.
~ Donna Tartt
What do you think about America? Everyone always smiles so big! Well—most people. Maybe not so much you. I think it looks stupid.
~ Donna Tartt
Um, we don't hit women in America." He scowled, and spit out an apple seed. "No. Americans just persecute smaller countries that believe different from them.
~ Donna Tartt
No. Americans just persecute smaller countries that believe different from them.
~ Donna Tartt
And your point is?? My point is like, democracy is excuse for any fucking thing. Violence ...greed ...stupidity... anything is ok if Americans do it. Right? Am I right? You really can't shut up, can you?
~ Donna Tartt
There are many respects in which America, if it can bring itself to act with the magnanimity and the empathy appropriate to its size and power, can be an intelligent example to the world.
~ J. William Fulbright
And each of them has performed a great public service to the people of America, filling a role that is nonappointive, nonelective, certainly nonpaid, the most demanding volunteer job in America.
~ Unknown
As First Ladies of the land, these women filled the most demanding volunteer job in America. They were not elected, they were legally responsible to no one except the man with whom they had exchanged marriage vows. They had no official title. First Lady was a term popularized by a newswoman many years ago, but it has remained the only designation given to the woman who is married to the man we call "Mr. President.
~ Unknown
In January 1924, as a sweeping immigration measure awaited presidential signature, American Jewish Committee leader Louis Marshall asked to meet with President Calvin Coolidge to urge a veto. Coolidge refused to see him. The president's views were summed up in an article he had written a few years earlier in Good Housekeeping magazine, titled "Whose Country Is This?" "[B]iological laws show us that Nordics deteriorate when mixed with other races," Coolidge wrote.
~ Unknown
Stupid Americans. Didn't they comprehend what was happening? They were killing themselves. While they foolishly spent their treasure and spilled their blood in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Yemen, the very ideology they were fighting to defeat was moving into their cities, their schools, their very government. The freedoms the West championed so proudly would be their ultimate downfall. Those freedoms would be targeted and exploited. Their freedoms were their weakness. Know thy enemy.
~ Unknown
One day Syria would push Israel back to its pre-1967 borders. They had made gains in the region, kicking the Americans out of Iraq, but Israel still existed. Their American masters were on their knees, sent running from Lebanon, Iraq, and Afghanistan. They were now focused on domestic problems, riots in their streets, political division, and an economy crippled by the pandemic. They even made themselves again dependent on foreign oil, oil from the Arab world. Self-inflicted wounds.
~ Unknown
That is why those countries would endure and why America was doomed to fail.
~ Unknown
What made a country? Borders, language, and culture. The Americans were doing away with all three. It would lead to their downfall,
~ Unknown
The Americans had almost destroyed themselves with their COVID mandates; failed wars in a part of the world they would never understand; race riots; political upheaval; and a border policy of which Gromyko's predecessors could only have dreamed. Russia
~ Unknown
When I went off to the army when I was 17 years old, I believed in America and the rights of freedom. But today I believe my government is lying to the American people and that my president, George Bush, is a criminal.
~ Jack Herer
It isn't a perfect America and it isn't run right, but it still belongs to us. As
~ Jackie Robinson
United States—and unfairly, I feel—the greatest purveyor of violence on earth.
~ Jackie Robinson
Why America has never made the connection between tract housing and psychosis is beyond me
~ Unknown
This film business, perhaps more so in America than in Europe, has always been about young sexuality. It's not true of theatre, but in America, film audiences are young. It's not an intellectual cinema in America.
~ Jacqueline Bisset
The FBI says Angela Davis is one of America's Most Wanted.
~ Jacqueline Woodson
Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball.
~ Jacques Barzun