5,300 Quotes About America

America is a land of wonders, in which everything is in constant motion and every change seems an improvement.

Let it be told to the future world that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive, that the city and the country, alarmed at one common danger, came forth to meet it.

It is worthy to note, that the early popularity of Washington was not the result of brilliant achievement nor signal success; on the contrary, it rose among trials and reverses, and may almost be said to have been the fruit of defeat.

To [the government] it didn't matter what happened to the American people as long as america in the abstract was kept strong.

It’s best to keep America just like that, always in the background, a sort of picture post card which you look at in a weak moment. Like that, you imagine it’s always there waiting for you, unchanged, unspoiled, a big patriotic open space with cows and sheep and tenderhearted men ready to bugger everything in sight, man, woman or beast. It doesn’t exist, America. It’s a name you give to an abstract idea…

The British obviously overlooked the fact that an American only has to be sold on the idea that his cause is just and he is capable of anything.

Americans see democracy as a remedy for all ills-to be taken three times daily like prescription medicine. It works for them. Ergo - it should work for the world. What America naïvely forgets is that for democracy to function, most of a populace must have something personally that is worth preserving.

Pro and con are opposites, that fact is clearly seen. If progress means to move forward, then what does congress mean?

Every Canadian has a complicated relationship with the United States, whereas Americans think of Canada as the place where the weather comes from.