5,300 Quotes About America

When did a free country start to mean free enterprise? Who sold Democracy out for a golden calf we got to idolize?

We know enough to know that all of this is not quite right. And we know enough to know that settling for what’s not quite right is quite wrong.

America pays defense contractors to build aircraft carriers. Google pays brilliant programmers to do whatever the hell they want.

So, Americans, then. Self-appointed vigilante defenders of the world, kind of like Superman, if Superman was retarded and only fought crime when he felt like it.

It was mid-November 2008. There were pirates taking ships with impunity in African waters, terrorists punching holes in Indian security, China sinking towards depression because Americans were afraid to buy cheap goods for Christmas, and the richest nation in the history of the world was talking about how to keep a budget.

I'm with you in Rocklandin my dreams you walk dripping from a sea-journey on the highway across America in tears to the door of my cottage in the Western night.

Asia is an entertainment, Europe is a dream, America is an imprisonment and Rest is a nightmare.

Jesus commanded, 'Take up your cross and follow me.' That doesn't accord well with an evening spent on the therapist's couch.Americans do not ask for help--physically or psychologically--because the more we suffer, the more we are convinced we're doing the right thing. When our words and actions are hated, we think we must be speaking the truth. 'For thus they persecuted the prophets.

I still believe that many Americans have a deep longing for that glorious moment when a sermon is more Biblical than American.