(388 quotes found)
“Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, for the people”
Abraham Lincoln
“We defend and we build a way of life, not for America alone, but for all of mankind”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
“I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.”
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
“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
“Fourscore and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal”
“We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees”
“It is easy to take liberty for granted when you have never had it taken from you.”
M. Grundler
“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 is another name for opportunity.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson