Quotes about America
America is a willingness of the heart.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
The historic glory of America lies in the fact that it is the one nation that was founded like a church. That is, it was founded on a faith that was not merely summed up after it had exited, but was defined before it existed.
- GK Chesterton
I saw what happened when a dictator was allowed to take over a piece of a country and the country went down the tubes. And I saw the opposite during the war when America joined the fight.
- Madeleine Albright
Spiritually, we have marginalized the Bible. We've trivialized marriage, and we've neutralized the church. America today is in great turmoil. It feels like the soul of our nation has been taken from us.
- David Jeremiah
America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy.
- John Quincy Adams
The fruits of Christianity were religious wars, butcheries, crusades, inquisitions, extermination of the natives of America, and the introduction of African slaves in their place.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
The bombs in Vietnam explode at home; they destroy the hopes and possibilities for a decent America.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Most people do not realize that there was a paid chaplain in Congress even before the Revolutionary War ended.
- Francis Schaeffer
It is a principle incorporated into the settled policy of America, that as peace is better than war, war is better than tribute.
- James Madison
Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.
- Woodrow Wilson
Laughter is America's most important export.
- Walt Disney
Where was the lecture on how slavery alone catapulted the whole country from agriculture into the industrial age in two decades? White folks' hatred, their violence, was the gasoline that kept the profit motors running.
- Toni Morrison