“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
“We need to guarantee equal rights and civil rights and say that, here in America, workers have the right to organize - women have the right to choose - and justice belongs to everyone regardless of race or gender or sexual orientation.”
Senator John Kerry
“America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense, it is the other way around. Human rights invented America.”
Jimmy Carter
“You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else.”
Winston Churchill
“An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.”
George Bernard Shaw
“America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.”
Oscar Wilde
“We can have no "50-50" allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all.”
Theodore Roosevelt