Quotes about America
America used to live by the motto "Father Knows Best." Now we're lucky if "Father Knows He Has Children." We've become a nation of sperm donors and baby daddies.
- Stephen Colbert
We're fighting people that hates our values, they can't stand what America stands for.
- George W. Bush
America is too great for small dreams.
- Ronald Reagan
Jazz is the only unhampered, unhindered expression of complete freedom yet produced in this country.
- Duke Ellington
It seems stupid to have discovered America only to make it into a copy of another country.
- Edith Wharton
The important distinction so well understood in America, between a Constitution established by the people and unalterable by the government, and a law established by the government and alterable by the government, seems to have been little understood and less observed in any other country.
- Alexander Hamilton
Every man who loves peace, every man who loves his country, every man who loves liberty, ought to have it ever before his eyes, that he may cherish in his heart a due attachment to the Union of America, and be able to set a due value on the means of preserving it.
- Alexander Hamilton
America's political system has evolved over the last 50 years in ways that have enhanced the power of business lobbies.
- Al Gore
What makes America great is our commitment to our values of inclusivity and opportunity for all.
- Pramila Jayapal
This is the 21st century, and we would all like to think racism is dead in America. Actually, that's not the case: still there are some racial issues that are out across this nation, and so we have a responsibility as compassionate citizens of America, no matter what our ethnic group happens to be, to confront these issues when they arise.
- Alveda King
America faces a fundamental choice: either the blessings of liberty or the servitude of liberalism. In the political struggle for survival, one or the other is headed for extinction.
- Nancy Pearcey
My kids think America is swimming pools on the roof, screening rooms, and hot dogs. They love it here.
- Damian Lewis