Quotes about America
The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.
- Lyndon B. Johnson
We do need unity, and from my perspective as a minister myself, God has not forgotten America.
- Alveda King
Our liberties, our values, all for which America stands is safe today because brave men and women have been ready to face the fire at freedom's front. And we thank God for them.
- Ronald Reagan
The forgotten men and women of America will be forgotten no longer.
- Donald Trump
The men and women of America who have been forgotten will never be forgotten again.
- Donald Trump
We all can do our part to address America's anger mismanagement crisis. And for us Christians, it starts with a little more faith, hope, and love.
- Eric Metaxas
Hip-hop has done so much for racial relations, and I don't think it's given the proper credit. It has changed America immensely. I'm going to make a very bold statement: Hip-hop has done more than any leader, politician, or anyone to improve race relations.
- Jay-Z
In America, evangelical churches have often been bastions of conservatism, providing support for the status quo.
- Tony Campolo
And even should the cloud of barbarism and despotism again obscure the science and liberties of Europe, this country remains to preserve and restore light and liberty to them. In short, the flames kindled on the fourth of July, 1776, have spread over too much of the globe to be extinguished by the feeble engines of despotism; on the contrary, they will consume these engines and all who work them.
- Thomas Jefferson
October is a fine and dangerous season in America. a wonderful time to begin anything at all. You go to college, and every course in the catalogue looks wonderful.
- Thomas Merton
It is the object only of war that makes it honorable. And if there was ever a just war since the world began, it is this in which America is now engaged.
- Thomas Paine
Perhaps no two events ever united so intimately and forceably to combat and expel prejudice, as the Revolution of America, and the Alliance with France. Their effects are felt, and their influence already extends as well to the old world as the new. Our style and manner of thinking have undergone a revolution, more extraordinary than the political revolution of the country. We see with other eyes; we hear with other ears; and think with other thoughts, than those we formerly used.
- Thomas Paine