America Quotes

I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.

I just want to say this. I want to say it gently but I want to say it firmly: There is a tendency for the world to say to America, "the big problems of the world are yours, you go and sort them out," and then to worry when America wants to sort them out.

America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered.

Our American values are not luxuries but necessities, not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. Our common vision of a free and just society is our greatest source of cohesion at home and strength abroad, greater than the bounty of our material blessings.

I don't measure America by its achievement but by its potential.

America is the greatest, freest and most decent society in existence. It is an oasis of goodness in a desert of cynicism and barbarism. This country, once an experiment unique in the world, is now the last best hope for the world.

There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence and energy of her citizens cannot cure.

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

America is therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the World's History shall reveal itself.

America - a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose.

America is not merely a nation but a nation of nations.

Intellectually, I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.

I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the crimson light of a rising sun fresh from the burning, creative hand of God. I see great days ahead, great days possible to men and women of will and vision.

America is a young country with an old mentality.

There is a New America every morning when we wake up. It is upon us whether we will it or not.

Europe will never be like America. Europe is a product of history. America is a product of philosophy.

Just what is it that America stands for? If she stands for one thing more than another it is for the sovereignty of self-governing people.

America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses.

This is the story of America. Everybody's doing what they think they're supposed to do.

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.