Quotes about America

There are situations that a nation may be in, in which peace or war, abstracted from every other consideration, may be politically right or wrong. When nothing can be lost by a war, but what must be lost without it, war is then the policy of that country; and such was the situation of America at the commencement of hostilities: but when no security can be gained by a war, but what may be accomplished by a peace, the case becomes reversed.

It is not in the power of Britain or of Europe to conquer America, if she do not conquer herself by DELAY and TIMIDITY.

I have noticed that no other group of people in the United States truly loves America as a whole like white people do.

Americans used to roar like lions for liberty; now we bleat like sheep for security.

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.

TO FOREIGN LANDS. I heard that you ask'd for something to prove this puzzle the New World, And to define America, her athletic Democracy, Therefore I send you my poems that you behold in them what you wanted.

is that the President? Then I will sleep awhile yet, for I see that these States sleep

For America, if eligible at all to downfall and ruin, is eligible within herself, not without;

Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.

There are many countries where you can only believe more or you can believe less. But in the United States we have this incredible smorgasbord, and it really interests me why people are drawn to one faith rather than another, especially to a system of belief that to an outsider seems absurd or dangerous.

War is America's central liturgical act necessary to renew our sense that we are a nation unlike other nations.