A Quotes
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“America is more than just a place...it's an idea. It's the only country founded on an idea. Our rights come from nature and God, not government. We promise equal opportunity, not equal outcomes.”
“America is moving forward and gaining strength. We have been tested, and we have proven ourselves to be a tough, resilient and resourceful nation.”
“America is much less violent than it was 20, 30 years ago, and immigration is much less a problem than it was not just 20, 30 years ago, but when I came in as president.”
“America is my country and Paris is my hometown.”
“America is my home - I believe in her promise and I will do what I can to secure that promise for future generations of our children. America is great - not because of our military might or our economic strength - but because of the greatness of Americans, and I welcome the opportunity to stand shoulder to shoulder, side by side with all of you to preserve our heritage rich in "liberty and justice for all."”
“America is my mother and my mother is my responsibility.”
“America is neither free nor brave, but a land of tight, iron-clanking little wills, everybody trying to put it over everybody else, and a land of men absolutely devoid of the real courage of trust, trust in life's sacred spontaneity. They can't trust life until they can control it.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)
“America is never great. America is great in what it can be, which is the American dream.”
“America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world.”
“America is new to instrumental dance tracks on the radio, we were all so surprised "Animals" did so well on the radio.”
“America is no longer the melting pot it used to be. It has now become a tossed salad of foreigners that arrive to our shores wanting to keep their culture and forcing our acceptance.”
“America is no Third Reich. Though its military knows the technique of blitzkrieg, the politicians don’t know what to do with the resulting “victory.” The American people are not an imperialist people. They do not particularly like foreign adventures, or telling other people what to do. The “war on terror,” therefore, tends toward farce. It is not imperialism, but misguided philanthropy in which many people are killed and America’s enemies gain the advantage.
J.R.Nyquist”
“America is not - and never will be - at war with Islam. We will, however, relentlessly confront violent extremists.”
“America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.”
“America is not a country that wanders around trusting people with power. This is a country that wants accountability.”
“America is not a country, it is a world.”
Source: Oscar Wilde in America: The Interviews
“America is not a country, it’s a business.”
“America is not a democracy, it's an absolute monarchy ruled by King Kid. In a nation of immigrants, the child is automatically more of an American than his parents. Americans regard children as what Mr. Hudson in Upstairs, Downstairs called betters. Aping their betters, American adults do their best to turn themselves into children. Puerility exercises droit de seigneur everywhere.”
Source: Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye
“America is not a democracy. I think if your kids understood that - and most people don't. We are a representative republic. We're not a direct democracy.”
“America is not a melting pot. It is a sizzling cauldron.”
“America is not a mere body of traders; it is a body of free men. Our greatness is built upon our freedom - is moral, not material. We have a great ardor for gain; but we have a deep passion for the rights of man.”
Source: The papers of Woodrow Wilson
“America is not a nation of separation. All our citizens are Americans. The common denominator is our language. Our language is English. The glue that binds generation after generation is both our Constitution and our English language.”
“America is not a pile of goods, more luxury, more comforts, a better telephone system, a greater number of cars. America is a dream of greater justice and opportunity for the average man and, if we can not obtain it, all our other
achievements amount to nothing.”
“America is not a special country by accident. It did not happen on its own. It happened because for over 200 years, each generation before us did what needed to be done.”
“America is not a white man's republic.”
“America is not a wily, sneaky nation. We don't think that way. We don't think much at all, thank God. Start thinking and pretty soon you get ideas, and then you get idealism, and the next thing you know you've got ideology, with millions dead in concentration camps and gulags.”
“America is not a young land: it is old and dirty and evil before the settlers, before the Indians. The evil is there waiting.”
Source: Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader
“America is not all white people. It's not all black people. It's not all Mexican people. We together, and we all relate on certain levels, so if you actually scaring people away, they can't relate to what you're saying.”
“America is not an ethnostate. We are not rooted in blood and soil.”
“America is not another word for Opportunity to all her sons.”
Source: The Souls of Black Folk: The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois
“America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us...”
“America is not at war with Islam. And it is a mistake and it plays into the hands of the terrorists to act as though we are.”
“America is not better off than it was $1.8 trillion dollars ago.”
“America is not big enough to shake her fist in the face of a holy God and get away with it, and as I read this I want to explain something. I'm going to read this and then I want to explain something. As America has permitted homosexuality to establish itself as an alternate lifestyle, it is also reeling from the frightening spread of sexually transmitted disease. Sin begets its own consequence, both on individuals and nations.”
“America is not divided, our enemies they will be stopped. Cause we the people are united, and still one nation under God.”
“America is not dying because of the strength of humanism but the weakness of evangelism.”
“America is not fighting to win a war. We are fighting to give an application to an old Greek proverb, which is that the purpose of war is not to annihilate an enemy but to get him to mend his ways. And we are confident we can get the enemy to mend his.”
“America is not just 'a nation with the soul of a church,' as G.K. Chesterton wrote in 1992: it is a nation with the mind of a crusade”
“America is not just a country, it's an idea.”
“America is not just a democracy, it represents a certain culture of competitive mobility and personality aspirations, politics is not merely a clash of interests, but a clash of dreams.”
“America is not just a power, it is a promise. It is not enough for our country to be extraordinary in might; it must be exemplary in meaning.”
Source: Unity, Freedom & Peace: A Blueprint for Tomorrow
“America is not like a blanket- one piece of unbroken cloth. America is more like a quilt- many patches, many pieces, many colors, many sizes, all woven together by a common thread.”
“America is not nearly done. We're only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows... what color we will be? It is all something that, maybe, our descendants - if they survive that long - will see.”
“America is not only big and rich, it is mysterious; and its capacity for the humorous or ironical concealment of its interests matches that of the legendary inscrutable Chinese.”
Source: The Lonely Crowd: A Study of the Changing American Character
“America is not perfect. It took a bloody civil war to free over 4 million African Americans who lived enslaved. It took another hundred years after that before they achieved full equality under the law.”
“America is not so much a country as it is an idea, and that must be why so many people are drawn to it, the idea of it, the idea that you might be free of your past, free of the traditions that kept you in your own traditions - that is the idea of it: freedom from your very own self.”
“America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out of existence. The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set up by the non-dreamers.”
Source: Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader
“America is not the best,
America is the test we face -
not supremacy, not perfection,
but courage born of self-correction.”
Source: Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth
“America is not the center of the universe.”
“America is not the crude stereotype of a self-interested empire. Given our interdependence, any world order that elevates one nation or group of people over another will inevitably fail.”