“There is an option still left to the United States of America, that it is in their choice and depends upon their conduct, whether they will be respectable and prosperous or contemptible and miserable as a Nation”
George Washington
“Americans, indeed all free men, remember that in the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy a burden as a prisoner's chains”
Dwight David Eisenhower
“America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.”
Alexis de Tocqueville
“America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense, it is the other way around. Human rights invented America.”
Jimmy Carter
“There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens can not cure.”
“America is successful because of the hard work and creativity and enterprise of our people.”
George W. Bush
“America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination, and unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.”
Harry S Truman