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- 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 - )
- All the perplexities, confusions, and distress in America arise, not from defects in their constitution or confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit, and circulation.
- John Adams (1735 - 1826), Letter to Thomas Jefferson, August 25, 1787
- 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 look forward to an america in which commands respect throughout the world, not only for its strength, but for its civilization as well. And I look forward to a world in which we will be safe not only for democracy and diversity but also for personal distinction.
- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), Speech at Amherst College, October 26, 1963
- 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)
- In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs for ever and ever.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Soul of a Man Under Socialism, the works of Oscar Wilde ed. G., 1954
- 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 - )
- You Europeans know nothing about America. Because we amass large fortunes you think we care for nothing but money. We are nothing for it; the moment we have it we spend it, sometimes well, sometimes ill, but we spend it. Money is nothing to us; it's merely the symbol of success. We are the greatest idealists in the world; I happen to think that we've set our ideal on the wrong objects; I happen to think that the greatest ideal man can set before himself is self-perfection.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
- Either the United States will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.
- W.E.B. Du Bois, Speech at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, August 1906
- I know nothing grander, better exercise, better digestion, more positive proof of the past, the triumphant result of faith in human kind, than a well-contested American national election.
- Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892), Democratic Vistas
- 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)
- There's the one thing no nation can ever accuse us of and that is secret diplomacy. Our foreign are an open book, generally a check book.
- Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
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