“America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense, it is the other way around. Human rights invented America.”
Jimmy Carter
“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 is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.”
Alexis de Tocqueville
“America is another name for opportunity.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“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
“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
