American Quotes

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Our government wasn't created to be efficient.
 It was created to preserve the individual.
 -Sam Ervin

Liberty: One of Imagination's
most precious possessions.
-Ambrose Bierce 

Eternal vigilance is the condition not only of liberty,
 but of everything which as civilized me we hold dear. -August Heckscher

You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world...We are not a nation, so much as a world. 
-Herman Melville

Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, 
but in striving that our country shall be righteous
 as well as strong.
-James Bryce

Freedom is still expensive.  It still costs money.  It still costs blood.  It still calls for courage and endurance, not only in soldiers, but  in every man and woman who is free and who is determined to remain free.
 -Harry S.Truman

The best energies of my life have been spent
 in  endeavoring to establish and perpetuate the
 blessings of free government.
 -Andrew Johnson

The United States is like a gigantic boiler.
  Once the fire is lighted under it there is
 no limit to the power it can generate.
 -Lord Grey

America is never wholly herself
 unless she is engaged in high moral principle.
 We as a people have such a purpose today. 
-George W. Bush

Americanism means the virtues of courage, 
honor, justice, truth, sincerity and hardihood
-the virtues that made America. 
-Theodore Roosevelt

Every man who expresses an honest thought
 is a soldier in the army of intellectual liberty.
-Robert G. Ingersoll

I hope to ever see America among the foremost
 nations in examples of justice and liberality.
 -George Washington

Ours is not only a fortunate people but a 
very common sensical  people, with vision
 high but their feet on the earth, with belief
in themselves and faith in God.
  -Warren G.  Harding

At once three outstanding characteristics
 of the American mind are apparent-equalitarianism,
 love of freedom and bounding energy.
  But the most deep-seated, I am sure, is energy.
 -Stephen James Lake Taylor

America is the only country ever
 founded on the printed word. 
Marshall McLuhan

The country is always stronger than we
know in our most worried moments.
 -E.B.White

Let us have faith that might makes right, and in that
 faith let us dare to do our duty as we understand it.
 -Abraham Lincoln

Then conquer we must, for our cause is just,
 and this be our motto: "In God is our Trust!"
 -Francis Scott Key

Liberty cannot be preserved without a
 general knowledge among the people.
 -John Adams

Liberty without learning is always in peril
 and learning without liberty is always in vain.
 -John F. Kennedy

If only we are faithful to our past, we shall not have
 to fear our future.  The cause of peace, justice and
 liberty need not fail and must not fail. 
-John Foster Dulles

What we need are critical lovers of America-
patriots who express their faith in their
 country by working to improve it.
-Hubert H. Humphrey

Human freedom is not a gift of man.
 It is an achievement by man; and as it was gained by vigilance
 and struggle, so it may be lost in indifference and supineness. 
-Harry F. Byrd

I venture to suggest that patriotism is not a
 short and frenzied outburst of emotion 
but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime. 
-Adlai Stevenson

America means opportunity, freedom, power.
 -Ralph Waldo Emerson

America, the land of unlimited possibilites. 
-Ludwig Max Goldberger

You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness.  You may think you have overeaten, but it is patriotism. 
-Erma Bombeck

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every great
 experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
  You are able to say to yourself, "I lived through this horror.
  I can take the next thing that comes along."...
You must do the thing you think you cannot do. 
-Eleanor Roosevelt

The unity of freedom has never relied
 on the uniformity of opinion 
-John F.Kennedy

Liberty, when it begins to take root,
 is a plant of rapid growth. 
-George Washington

I, for one, will never concede that we 
cannot do as much in defense of our freedom
 as any enemy may be doing to destroy them. 
-Bernard M. Baruch

Patriotism is easy to understand in America.
 It means looking out for yourself
 by looking out for your country.
 -Calvin Coolidge

The whole inspiration of our life as a nation flows out 
from the waving folds of this banner.
-Anonymous

After all-it's a great country,
 but you can't live in it for nothing.
 -Will Rogers

Let us remember that our national unity
 is a most priceless asset.
 -Gerald Ford

How important it is for us to recognize
 and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!
 -Maya Angelou

I believe in America because we have great dreams
-and because we have the opportunity to make
 those dreams come true. 
-Wendell L. Wilkie

A government for the people must depend for its
 success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice,
 and the interest of the people themselves. 
-Grover Cleveland

There are those, I know, who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream.  They are right.  It is the American dream.  -Archibald MacLeish

There can be no fifty-fifty Americanism in this country.  There is room here for only 100 percent Americanism, only for those who are Americans and nothing else. -Theodore Roosevelt

Tis not in numbers but in unity that our great strength lies. -Thomas Paine.

What makes a nation in the beginning is
 a good piece of geography. 
-Robert Frost

Nothing is impracticable to this nation, which it shall set itself to do...We are on the brink of more wonders.
 -Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is not the fact of liberty but in the way in which
 liberty is exercised that ultimately determines
 whether liberty itself survives.
 -Dorothy Thompson

Courage is the price that life extracts for granting peace. -Amelia Earhart

The inescapable price of liberty is an ability
 to preserve it from destruction.
 -Douglas MacArthur

One heart, one hope, one destiny, 
one flag from sea to shining sea.
 -Kate Brownlee Sherwood

One flag, one land, one heart,
 one hand, one nation, evermore! 
-Oliver Wendell Holmes

Liberty, according to my metaphysics..
.is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. 
 It implies thought and choice and power.
 -John Adams

For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge.  It is the star that is not reached and the harvest that's sleeping in the ground. -Lyndon B. Johnson

What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have a great capacity-intellect and resources- to do something about them.
 -Henry Ford II