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Americans quotes, England quotes, Democracy quotes
In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.
Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965), Speech in Indianapolis, 26 Sept. 1952
There is a New America every morning when we wake up. It is upon us whether we will it or not.
Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965)
America's greatest strength, and its greatest weakness, is our belief in second chances, our belief that we can always start over, that things can be made better.
Anthony Walton
America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair.
Arnold Toynbee (1889 - 1975)
There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.
Bill Clinton (1946 - )
America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
Bobcat Goldthwaite
There's the country of America, which you have to defend, but there's also the idea of America. America is more than just a country, it's an idea. An idea that's supposed to be contagious.
Bono (1960 - ), Oprah Winfrey Show, 2002
I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the crimson light of a rising sun fresh from the burning, creative hand of God. I see great days ahead, great days possible to men and women of will and vision.
Carl Sandburg (1878 - 1967)
The trouble with America is that there are far too many wide-open spaces surrounded by teeth.
Charles Luckman
America is the greatest, freest and most decent society in existence. It is an oasis of goodness in a desert of cynicism and barbarism. This country, once an experiment unique in the world, is now the last best hope for the world.
Dinesh D'Souza
There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence and energy of her citizens cannot cure.
Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969)
The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.
Frank Zappa (1940 - 1993)
America is therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the World's History shall reveal itself.
Georg W. Hegel (1770 - 1831)
England and America are two countries separated by a common language.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
America is a young country with an old mentality.
George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
America has never been an empire. We may be the only great power in history that had the chance, and refused – preferring greatness to power and justice to glory.
George W. Bush (1946 - ), speech, November 19, 1999
America has never been united by blood or birth or soil. We are bound by ideals that move us beyond our backgrounds, lift us above our interests and teach us what it means to be citizens.
George W. Bush (1946 - ), Inaugural address, 2001
America will never run... And we will always be grateful that liberty has found such brave defenders.
George W. Bush (1946 - )
By heritage and by choice, the United States of America will make that stand.
George W. Bush (1946 - ), Speech to the United Nations, September 12, 2002
In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. That is what makes America what it is.
Gertrude Stein (1874 - 1946), The Geographical History of America (1936)
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 II (1917 - 1987)
America - a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose.
Herbert Hoover (1874 - 1964)
I'm not going to quit. Why should I quit? This country is worth fighting for.
Hillary Rodham Clinton (1948 - ), Ellen DeGeneres interview, 04-07-08
This is the story of America. Everybody's doing what they think they're supposed to do.
Jack Kerouac (1922 - 1969), On the Road
In a country as big as the United States, you can find fifty examples of anything.
Jeffery F. Chamberlain
Our American values are not luxuries but necessities, not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. Our common vision of a free and just society is our greatest source of cohesion at home and strength abroad, greater than the bounty of our material blessings.
Jimmy Carter (1924 - )
I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.
John Adams (1735 - 1826)
I believe America's best days are ahead of us because I believe that the future belongs to freedom, not to fear.
John Kerry (1943 - )
America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.
John Updike (1932 - ), Problems and Other Stories
There are three social classes in America: upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class.
Judith Martin, (Miss Manners)
The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.
King Edward VIII (1894 - 1972)
America is a country that doesn't know where it is going but is determined to set a speed record getting there.
Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered.
Louis D. Brandeis (1856 - 1941)
America is not merely a nation but a nation of nations.
Lyndon B. Johnson (1908 - 1973)
Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.
Margaret Thatcher (1925 - )
Europe will never be like America. Europe is a product of history. America is a product of philosophy.
Margaret Thatcher (1925 - )
What a pity, when Christopher Colombus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.
Margot Asquith
It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.
Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.
Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
All great change in America begins at the dinner table.
Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004)
I don't measure America by its achievement but by its potential.
Shirley Chisholm (1924 - 2005)
America is a mistake, a giant mistake.
Sigmund Freud (1856 - 1939)
Intellectually, I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
Sinclair Lewis (1885 - 1951)
I just want to say this. I want to say it gently but I want to say it firmly: There is a tendency for the world to say to America, "the big problems of the world are yours, you go and sort them out," and then to worry when America wants to sort them out.
Tony Blair (1953 - )
Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people.
Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.
Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
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.
Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924)
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 Wilson (1856 - 1924)
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