5,300 Quotes About America

It’s time to reach deep into the soul of this country and once again give everyone — and I mean everyone — the opportunity to achieve the impossible.

He finished his food quickly and then nervously looked from person to person. I could tell that he wanted to ask a question, so I wrapped my arm around his shoulder and asked if he needed anything. 'Yeah,' he started, refusing to make eye contact. And then, almost in a whisper: 'I wonder if I could get a few more french fries.' He was hungry – in 2014, in the richest country on Earth. He wanted a little extra to eat, but felt uncomfortable asking.

I like that name, that game too, though utterly valueless, the animal in usjust sufficiently domesticated, our venomous American aggressiveness confined to balls and bats.

Unity without a conquering spirit yeilds  failure; only those who posses a conquering  spirit will prevail.

Principled leadership that embraces the fundamental need to aid in the successful development of a society, consequently cultivates a path of greatness to be followed.

It wasn't like America, where we scraped the earth clean, thinking we could start again every time. We hadn't learned yet, there was not such thing as an empty canvas.

The genius of the American system is not freedom; the genius of the American system is checks and balances. Nobody gets all the power. Everybody is watching everybody else. It is as if the founding fathers knew, intrinsically, that the soul of man, unwatched, is perverse.

Monroe's presidency made poor men rich, turned political allies into friends, and united a divided people as no president had done since Washington.

When I was a little girl, I used to sit in that two bedroom chattel house in Barbados and dream about America, the one I saw on the glittered postcards.