A Quotes
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“America, I like the spirit. Because American people here believe in something. I like that spirit.”
“America, I'm gonna shoot straight with you, I think I've wasted your time. I think this is the first time I have wasted an hour of your time. I apologize for that.”
“America, I've given you all and now I'm nothing.”
“America, in the eyes of the world, typifies above all else this quality of initiative. The greatest successes are nearly all the fruit of initiative. Why do we hold in such high esteem the achievements of the Wright brothers? Because they were illustrious examples of initiative and tenacity. And ideas are born of initiative, the children of men and women of initiative. Advancement is applied initiative. Don't imitate. Initiate.”
“America, it is said, is suffering from intolerance - it is not. It is suffering from tolerance. Tolerance of right and wrong, truth and error, virtue and evil, Christ and chaos. Our country is not nearly so overrun with the bigoted as it is overrun with the broadminded.”
“America, ladies and gentlemen, has done more for me financially than Britain ever has, or ever could have done.”
“America, like all nations, has to renounce war.”
“America, like Britain before her, is now the great defender of the Status Quo. She has committed herself against revolution and radical change in the underdeveloped world because independent governments would destroy the world economic and political system, which assures the United States its disproportionate share of economic and political power ... America's preeminent wealth depends upon keeping things in the underdeveloped world much as they are, allowing change and modernization to proceed only in a controlled, orderly, and nonthreatening way.”
“America, my country, is almost a continent and hardly yet a nation.”
“America, my friends, is the only country in the world actually founded on liberty - the only one. People went to America to be free.”
“America, not Keith Ellison, decides what book a congressman takes his oath on.”
“America, now is not the time for small plans.”
“America, our endless blessings bestow an enduring burden. But as Americans, we welcome our responsibility to lead.”
“America, so far as her physical history is concerned, has been falsely denominated the New World. Hers was the first dry land lifted out of the waters, hers the first shore washed by the ocean that enveloped all the earth beside; and while Europe was represented only by islands rising here and there above the sea, America already stretched an unbroken line of land from Nova Scotia to the Far West.”
Source: Geological Sketches
“America, the country of my heart, my second home.”
“America, the great liberator, is in desperate need of being liberated from itself - from its own excesses and arrogance. And the world needs to be liberated from American values and culture, spreading across the planet as if by divine providence.”
“America, the Idea of: We yearned for its beer and jazz, its smoke-filled nightclubs, its Edward Hopper bars, the melancholy of rainy Manhattan Gershwin nights... the America we yearned for has gone. Did it ever exist?”
“America, the land of the free, is turning itself into the land of the free ride. [U.S. airlines] are operating in protected markets. They are hoovering up public funds and they still can't make a profit.”
“America, the temple of invention and industry, doesn't make things anymore.”
“America, there’s no question that you’ve had my heart from the beginning. By now you have to know that”
“America, this is our moment. This is our time. Our time to turn the page of the policies of the past.”
“America, this is our moment. This is our time. Our time to turn the page on the policies of the past. Our time to bring new energy and new ideas to the challenges we face. Our time to offer a new direction for the country we love.”
“America, thou half-brother of the world; with something good and bad of every land.”
“America, to me, is freedom.”
“America, to me, should be shouting all the time, a bunch of shouting voices, most of them wrong, some of them nuts, but please, not just one droning glamourous reasonable voice.”
Source: In Persuasion Nation
“America, we are better than these last eight years. We are a better country than this.”
“America, we cannot turn back. Not with so much work to be done. Not with so many children to educate, and so many veterans to care for. Not with an economy to fix and cities to rebuild and farms to save. Not with so many families to protect and so many lives to mend. America, we cannot turn back. We cannot walk alone. At this moment, in this election, we must pledge once more to march into the future. Let us keep that promise - that American promise - and in the words of Scripture hold firmly, without wavering, to the hope that we confess.”
“America, we weaken our ties when we allow our political dialogue to become so corrosive that people of good character aren't even willing to enter into public service; so coarse with rancor that Americans with whom we disagree are seen not just as misguided but as malevolent. We weaken those ties when we define some of us as more American than others, when we write off the whole system as inevitably corrupt, and when we sit back and blame the leaders we elect without examining our own role in electing them.”
“America, when it became known to Europeans, was, as it had long been, a scene of wide-spread revolution.”
Source: France and England in North America
“America, where thanks to Congress, there are forty million laws to enforce the Ten Commandments.”
“America, which has the most glorious present still existing in the world today, hardly stops to enjoy it, in her insatiable appetite for the future.”
Source: GIFT FROM THE SEA
“America, which leads the world in so many ways, can end childhood hunger within its borders.”
“America, why are your libraries full of tears?”
Source: Howl and Other Poems: Pocket Poets Number 4
“America, with the same voice which spoke herself into existence as a nation, proclaimed to mankind the inextinguishable rights of human nature, and the only lawful foundations of government.”
Source: An Address, Delivered at the Request of the Committee of Arrangements for Celebrating the Anniversary of Independence: At the City of Washington on the Fourth of July 1821, Upon the Occasion of Reading the Declaration of Independence. ...
“America, you have it better than our continent, the old one.”
“America, you know, they always separate people because of race. They've been able to convince, 'The niggers are coming.' You know, the diversity that America has is so special. It's starting to really become a cool thing for young people. Not only because there are more mixes of people, but because people are more open-minded about each other. So I think in the future, America has a great, great opportunity, and mostly because of hip-hop.”
“America, you must be born again!”
Source: The Radical King
“America... an economic system prouder of the distribution of its products than of the products themselves.”
“America... Cherishes no purpose save to merit the favor of Almighty God.”
“America... goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all.”
Source: The origin and principles of the American Revolution compared with the origin and principles of the French Revolution: a facsimile reproduction
“America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.”
Source: Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72
“America... where law and custom alike are based upon the dreams of spinsters...”
“America...Do not touch my TV, my DVD, my stereo, my dual-deck VCR. Do not touch my old school, my new school, my slow jams, my party jams, my happy rap, and you better not touch...My James Brown.”
“America: It's like Britain, only with buttons.”
“America: the only country in the world where failing to promote yourself is regarded as being arrogant.”
“America: Twenty million illegal aliens can't be wrong!”
“American [public] schools are failing because they are organized according to a bureaucratic, monopolistic model; their organizing principle is basically the same as that of a socialist economy.”
“American academia has abandoned empiricism to make way for wokeism. This does not bode well. Science without empiricism is nothing but religion by another name.”
“American acculturation is a very powerful form of brainwashing. I know more about it now, but it's very difficult to move away from a world that you've been told was the greatest country on earth.”
“American Action Network should be spending their money to try and get those Democrats to change the votes, not beating up on Republicans in the House.”