“The true meaning of America, you ask? It's in a Texas rodeo, in a policeman's badge, in the sound of laughing children, in a political rally, in a newspaper... In all these things, and many more, you'll find America. In all these things, you'll find freedom. And freedom is what America means to the world. And to me.”
Audie Murphy
“America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.”
Alexis de Tocqueville
“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
“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
“America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense, it is the other way around. Human rights invented America.”
Jimmy Carter
“We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.”
Richard M. Nixon