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Quotes About America

The unconscious democracy of America is a very fine thing. It is a true and deep and instinctive assumption of the equality of citizens, which even voting and elections have not destroyed.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
America is hope. It is compassion. It is excellence. It is valor.
~ Paul Tsongas
Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land.
~ Herman Melville
As lawmakers, we must assure the people of America that our nation will not experience the nightmare of the 2000 presidential election.
~ Eddie Bernice Johnson
Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing to experience for himself what happened in Palestine.
~ Bashar al-Assad
The most important American addition to the World Experience was the simple surprising fact of America. We have helped prepare mankind for all its later surprises.
~ Daniel J. Boorstin
It is a cliché about British bands going to America and being broken by the experience.
~ Miki Berenyi
The reason was the failure of both Japan and China to understand each other and the inability of America and the European powers to sympathize, without prejudice, with the peoples of East Asia
~ Hideki Tojo
In Europe you learn not to fail, and in America you fail to learn. You need failure.
~ Hartmut Esslinger
The danger to America is not in the direction of the failure to maintain its economic position, but in the direction of the failure to maintain its ideals.
~ Calvin Coolidge
America is one of the few places where the failure to promote oneself is widely regarded as arrogance.
~ Garry Trudeau
I think the greatest taboos in America are faith and failure.
~ Unknown
America has become politically and culturally agnostic, and the Christian faith in the minds of many has come to represent intolerance.
~ Benjamin Hart
That's exactly what made America so different, we don't have that colonial aspect of let's go conquer somebody else and make our nation bigger and that's because of the faith element.
~ David Barton
I'm on the board of a national group called Faith in America. It's designed to fight religious-based bigotry.
~ James McGreevey
We call on all members of America's religious communities, as a testament of our common faith, to join Faithful Security, and to take action immediately to break faith with nuclear weapons.
~ William Sloane Coffin
I have never lost faith in America's essential goodness and greatness.
~ Hillary Clinton
The Americans have many virtues, but they have not Faith and Hope. I know no two words whose meaning is more lost sight of.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
America is losing faith in modern medicine, and for good reason.
~ Unknown
That is the true genius of America-a faith in simple dreams, an insistence on small miracles.
~ Barack Obama
I believe that the faith heritage of this country is actually a very important part of America's culture.
~ Mitt Romney
Al Qaeda, the Taliban, a whole host of networks that are bent on attacking America, who have a distorted ideology, who have perverted the faith of Islam, and so we have to go after them.
~ Barack Obama
The great thing about America is you can live according to your faith. If you're faith says don't use birth control then you don't use it.
~ Ted Cruz
America must dream again, and have the faith to achieve the dream.
~ Buzz Aldrin