5,300 Quotes About America

we know our inaction and inertiawill be the inheritance of the next generationOur blunders become their burdensBut one thing is certain:If we merge mercy with might,and might with right,then love becomes our legacyand change our children’s birthrightSo let us leave behind a countrybetter than the one we were left with

In fact, the center of our problems is political in nature. It is not with Americans ourselves.

We have two Americas: one where opportunity is locked in, the other where it is largely locked out.

Beware the purists, the doctrinaires. It has been by the empirical method largely, by way of trial and error, that we have come so far. America itself is an experiment and we must bear that always in mind.

A union that professes to endow freedom is a selective unity; an equality where the people’s power is derived from their equality, which is given by sovereigns; where freedom is disposable and expendable to those elite oligarchs. This is a convoluted autocracy governed by selfish unity.

Something happens everywhere in this country Every day. Someone is praying, someone is prey.

America has been a joint effort all down the years and we must continue in that spirit.

So here we are in the Capitol of the United States of America on Capitol Hill, the acropolis of our nation. It is a building like no other in the land, wherein the highest aspirations of a free and open society have been written into law, generation after generation, where, time and again, brave and eloquent words have changed history, and where the best and some of the worst of human motivations have been plainly on display.

Consistency and will are, therefore, important dimensions of strategic competence. But our will is diminished. As our foreign policies swung from over-optimism to resignation, identity politics interacted with new forms of populism. That interaction divided us and diminished confidence in our democratic principles, institutions, and processes.