(4017 quotes found)
“America has been discovered before, but it has always been hushed up”
Oscar Wilde
“Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society.”
Pope John Paul II
“Just what is it that America stands for? If she stands for one thing more than another it is for the sovereignty of self-governing people”
Woodrow T. Wilson
“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 will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.”
Dan Quayle
“An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.”
George Bernard Shaw
“America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses”
“If the world were a bar, America would currently be the angry drunk waving around a loaded gun. Yeah, the other people in the bar may be afraid of him, but they sure as hell don't respect him.”
Wil Wheaton
“Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihood—the virtues that made America. The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.”
Theodore Roosevelt
