5,300 Quotes About America

  • Author Sally Wister
  • Quote

    I feel in good spirits, though surrounded by an Army, the house full of officers, the yard alive with soldiers, - very peaceable sort of men, tho'. They eat like other folks, talk like them, and behave themselves with elegance; so I will not be afraid of them, that I won't.

  • Tags
  • Share

  • Author Sally Wister
  • Quote

    They were not, I am certain almost, first-rate gentlemen. (How different from our other officers.) But they are gone to Virginia, where they may sing, dance, and eat turkey hash and fry'd hominy all day long, if they choose.

  • Tags
  • Share

  • Author Edmund White
  • Quote

    America was, alas, a country of great eccentrics and great prudes, of great writers and few readers.

  • Tags
  • Share



  • Author Oscar Auliq-Ice
  • Quote

    At the heart of the struggle of women, people of color, the disabled, the poor, organized workers, immigrants, religious minorities, atheists,and sexual minorities is the radical belief that we are all created equal and deserve the right to life, liberty and pursuits of happiness.

  • Tags
  • Share