(3913 quotes found)
“America is another name for opportunity.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live.”
Jane Addams
“And, by the way, one of the most delightful things I find in America is meeting a people without prejudice -- everywhere open to the truth.”
Oscar Wilde
“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
“The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.”
“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
“I believe with all my heart that standing up for America means standing up for the God who has so blessed our land. We need God's help to guide our nation through stormy seas. But we can't expect Him to protect America in a crisis if we just leave Him over on the shelf in our day-to-day living.”
Ronald Reagan
“In America you can always find a party. In Russia the party always finds you.”
Yakov Smirnoff
“America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.”
Hunter S. Thompson
“I believe the most solemn duty of the American president is to protect the American people. If America shows uncertainty and weakness in this decade, the world will drift toward tragedy. This will not happen on my watch.”
George W. Bush
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