Quotes About America

The history of other cultures is non-existent until it erupts in confrontation with the United States.

Once I thought to write a history of the immigrants in America. Then I discovered that the immigrants were American history.

America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.

Ignorance of how we are shaped racially is the first sign of privilege. In other words. It is a privilege to ignore the consequences of race 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.

Wherever you go in the history of America, there have been Black people making contributions, but their contributions have been obscured, lost, buried.

America is a simplified ideological abstraction, an emotive symbol represented by other abstract symbols like the flag. It is the object of a faithlike devotion, unencumbered by honest history.

America creates myths by focusing a lot of energy on its history and using it - - not always, but sometimes - for constructive purposes.

If America wants to retain its position as a global power, its president must listen to the people and show strong leadership at this turning point in human history.

I think America is amazing for its landscape and its history. California is beautiful, New York is beautiful, but when you're a gypsy at heart, it probably suits you to be traveling.

President Obama is the most successful food stamp president in American history. I would like to be the most successful paycheck president in American history.

In America journalism is apt to be regarded as an extension of history: in Britain, as an extension of conversation.

We Americans entered a new phase in our history - the era of integration - in 1954.

A torch lighted in the forests of America set all Europe in conflagration.

In the history of the nation, there has never been a political party so ridiculous as today's Democrats. It's as if all the brain-damaged people in America got together and formed a voting bloc.

There is no doubt in my mind when history was written, the final page will say: 'Victory was achieved by the United States of America for the good of the world.'

Many of the ugly pages of American history have been obscured and forgotten

The United States of America will sound as pompously in the world or in history as The Kingdom of Great Britain.

Americans believe with all their heart, the vast majority of them, and the vast majority of Floridians, that the United States of America is simply the single greatest nation in all of human history.

In America we have a Declaration of Independence, but our history, our advancements, our global strength all point to an American declaration of interdependence.

In the darkest days of European history, America stood close by us and today we stand close by America. Nothing will ever be the same.

by operating on the principle of human and material obsolescence, America eats her history alive.

The greatness of America has grown out of a political and social system and a method of control of economic forces distinctly its own - our American system.

I feel like D.C. is one of the places in America that really holds on to history. The monuments inspire me, especially at night.