America Quotes

• America is not like a blanket: one piece of unbroken cloth, the same color, the same texture, the same size. America is more like a quilt: many patches, many pieces, many colors, many sizes, all woven and held together by a common thread.

• Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.

• Our flag is red, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbow -- red, yellow, brown, black and white -- and we're all precious in God's sight.

• I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem-and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?

• America is the only country ever founded on a creed.

• The <i>Declaration of Independence</i> dogmatically bases all rights on the fact that God created all men equal; and it is right; for if they were not created equal, they were certainly evolved unequal. There is no basis for democracy except in a dogma about the divine origin of man.

• The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

• It is by the goodness of God that, in this country, we have three benefits: freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and the wisdom never to use either.

• Americans learn only from catastrophe and not from experience.

• It is not what we have that will make us a great nation; it is the way in which we use it.

• The American people are slow to wrath, but when their wrath is once kindled it burns like a consuming flame.

• The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first, the love of soft living and the get rich quick theory of life.

• Our country offers the most wonderful example of democratic government on a giant scale that the world has ever seen; and the peoples of the world are watching to see whether we succeed or fail.

• In this country we have no place for hyphenated Americans.

• This country was built on rape, slavery, murder, degradation and affiliation with crime.

• The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.

• The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.

• The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles.

• Over the years, the United States has sent many of its fine young men and women into great peril to fight for freedom beyond our borders. The only amount of land we have ever asked for in return is enough to bury those that did not return.

• Over the years, the United States has sent many of its fine young men and women into great peril to fight for freedom beyond our borders. The only amount of land we have ever asked for in return is enough to bury those that did not return.

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