America Quotes I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.     John Adams What a pity, when Christopher Colombus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.     Margot Asquith I just want to say this. I want to say it gently but I want to say it firmly: There is a tendency for the world to say to America, "the big problems of the world are yours, you go and sort them out," and then to worry when America wants to sort them out.     Tony Blair America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered.     Louis D. Brandeis America has never been an empire. We may be the only great power in history that had the chance, and refused – preferring greatness to power and justice to glory.     George W. Bush America has never been united by blood or birth or soil. We are bound by ideals that move us beyond our backgrounds, lift us above our interests and teach us what it means to be citizens.     George W. Bush America will never run... And we will always be grateful that liberty has found such brave defenders.     George W. Bush By heritage and by choice, the United States of America will make that stand.     George W. Bush Our American values are not luxuries but necessities, not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. Our common vision of a free and just society is our greatest source of cohesion at home and strength abroad, greater than the bounty of our material blessings.     Jimmy Carter In a country as big as the United States, you can find fifty examples of anything.     Jeffery F. Chamberlain I don't measure America by its achievement but by its potential.     Shirley Chisholm There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.     Bill Clinton America is the greatest, freest and most decent society in existence. It is an oasis of goodness in a desert of cynicism and barbarism. This country, once an experiment unique in the world, is now the last best hope for the world.     Dinesh D'Souza The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.     King Edward VIII There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence and energy of her citizens cannot cure.     Dwight D. Eisenhower What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them.     Henry Ford II America is a mistake, a giant mistake.     Sigmund Freud America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.     Bobcat Goldthwaite 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.     Georg W. Hegel America - a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose.     Herbert Hoover America is not merely a nation but a nation of nations.     Lyndon B. Johnson This is the story of America. Everybody's doing what they think they're supposed to do.     Jack Kerouac I believe America's best days are ahead of us because I believe that the future belongs to freedom, not to fear.     John Kerry Intellectually, I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.     Sinclair Lewis The trouble with America is that there are far too many wide-open spaces surrounded by teeth.     Charles Luckman There are three social classes in America: upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class.     Judith Martin America is a country that doesn't know where it is going but is determined to set a speed record getting there.     Laurence J. Peter All great change in America begins at the dinner table.     Ronald Reagan I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the crimson light of a rising sun fresh from the burning, creative hand of God. I see great days ahead, great days possible to men and women of will and vision.     Carl Sandburg America is a young country with an old mentality.     George Santayana England and America are two countries separated by a common language.     George Bernard Shaw In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. That is what makes America what it is.     Gertrude Stein In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes America what it is.     Gertrude Stein In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.     Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. There is a New America every morning when we wake up. It is upon us whether we will it or not.     Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.     Margaret Thatcher Europe will never be like America. Europe is a product of history. America is a product of philosophy.     Margaret Thatcher America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair.     Arnold Toynbee It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.     Mark Twain America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.     John Updike America's greatest strength, and its greatest weakness, is our belief in second chances, our belief that we can always start over, that things can be made better.     Anthony Walton America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.     Oscar Wilde America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.     Oscar Wilde Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.     Oscar Wilde America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses.     Woodrow Wilson Just what is it that America stands for? If she stands for one thing more than another it is for the sovereignty of self-governing people.     Woodrow Wilson The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.     Frank Zappa Previous Subject - Agreement | Next Subject - Americans