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"Americans in unity, and unity in Americans!" ~Every Body's Toast Book and Convivial Companion, by An Adept, 1851
"If you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag; wash it." ~Norman Thomas
"There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America." ~William J. Clinton
"What the people want is very simple. They want an America as good as its promise." ~Barbara Jordan
"Yet America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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My dream is that as the years go on... that America will come into the full light of the day when all shall know that she puts human rights above all other rights and that her flag is the flag not only of America but of humanity. What other great people has devoted itself to this exalted ideal?" ~Woodrow Wilson, Presidential Address at Independence Hall, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1914 July 4th"America is a tune. It must be sung together." ~Gerald Stanley Lee, Crowds
"What is the essence of America? Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom "to" and freedom "from"." ~Marilyn Vos Savant, in Parade
"I love America more than any other country in this world; and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually." ~James Baldwin
"America is so vast that almost everything said about it is likely to be true, and the opposite is probably equally true." ~James T. Farrell
"How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy." ~Paul Sweeney
"May the growth of the American union never be prevented by party spirit." ~Every Body's Toast Book and Convivial Companion, by An Adept, 1851
"May the glory of America never cease to shine." ~"Toasts and Sentiments," Collier's Cyclopedia of Commercial and Social Information and Treasury of Useful and Entertaining Knowledge, compiled by Nugent Robinson, 1882
"This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave." ~Elmer Davis
"America is a passionate idea or it is nothing. America is a human brotherhood or it is chaos." ~Max Lerner, Actions and Passions, 1949
"This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in." ~Theodore Roosevelt, 1901
"We have the Bill of Rights. What we need is a Bill of Responsibilities." ~Bill Maher
"Miss Revendal asked—and I want to explain to her what America means to me.... When I am writing my American symphony, it seems like thunder crashing through a forest full of bird songs.... America is God's Crucible, the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming! Here you stand, good folk, think I, when I see them at Ellis Island, here you stand in your fifty groups, with your fifty languages and histories, and your fifty blood hatreds and rivalries. But you won't be long like that, brothers, for these are the fires of God you've come to—these are the fires of God. A fig for your feuds and vendettas! Germans and Frenchmen, Irishmen and Englishmen, Jews and Russians—into the Crucible with you all! God is making the American.... the real American has not yet arrived. He is only in the Crucible, I tell you—he will be the fusion of all races, perhaps the coming superman. Ah, what a glorious Finale for my symphony—if I can only write it." ~Israel Zangwill (1864–1926), The Melting-Pot, 1908
"America is a nation with many flaws, but hopes so vast that only the cowardly would refuse to acknowledge them." ~James Michener
"When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies glistening in the sun, the wide and rising plains, the great mountains, and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self-respect." ~Adlai Stevenson
"If you take advantage of everything America has to offer, there's nothing you can't accomplish." ~Geraldine Ferraro
"If our country is worth dying for in time of war let us resolve that it is truly worth living for in time of peace." ~Hamilton Fish
"The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation." ~Woodrow Wilson
"Let America realize that self-scrutiny is not treason, self-examination is not disloyalty." ~Richard Cushing, 1965
"Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country." ~Sinclair Lewis
"I always tell myself: “You can do better than this.” The best slogan I can think of to leave with the U.S.A. would be: “We can do and we’ve got to do better than this”." ~Theodor Seuss Geisel (1904–1991)
"May Peace o'er America spread her wing,
And Commerce fill her ports with gold;
May Arts and Science comfort bring,
And Liberty, her sons enfold."
~Every Body's Toast Book and Convivial Companion, by An Adept, 1851
"We cannot reform the world.... Uncle Sugar is as dangerous a role for us to play as Uncle Shylock. "~John F. Kennedy
"With hearts and with glasses brim full,
Let's drink to America, our Mother."
~Every Body's Toast Book and Convivial Companion, by An Adept, 1851
"Only Americans can hurt America." ~Dwight D. Eisenhower
"We dare not forget that we are the heirs of that first revolution." ~John F. Kennedy
"A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election." ~Bill Vaughan
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." ~Abraham Lincoln
"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
"May old England's sons, the Americans, never forget their mother." ~The Toastmaster: or, Treasury of Sentiment, 1836
Fling high the banner to the breeze!...
Free America!
Hail to thee, Union, firmly bound...
Proud America!
Liberty to wrest from fate...
see the Eagle Soaring
O'er America!
Gracious Father, grant Thy blessing
To America!
By birthright ours, or from afar,
Brethren, to our shores invited...
Round one common hearth united,
For one band of brothers lighted,
To one country we are plighted,
One America!
~John Nollen, "A National Hymn," 1898
"Of all the supervised conditions for life offered man, those under U S A's constitution have proved the best. Wherefore, be sure when you start modifying, corrupting or abrogating it." ~Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)
"We on this continent should never forget that men first crossed the Atlantic not to find soil for their ploughs but to secure liberty for their souls." ~Robert J. McCracken
"Ours is the only country deliberately founded on a good idea." ~John Gunther
"We need an America with the wisdom of experience. But we must not let America grow old in spirit." ~Hubert H. Humphrey
"Not merely a nation but a nation of nations." ~Lyndon B. Johnson
"You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world.... We are not a nation, so much as a world." ~Herman Melville
"What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it. "~Margot Asquith
"Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected." ~Oscar Wilde
"America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole." ~Bobcat Goldthwaite
"Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian." ~Robert Orben
"When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white man came, an Indian said simply, "Ours." ~Vine Deloria, Jr.
"Rachel: The pilgrims came here to escape persecution from the British.
Elizabeth: Yes, so they could go about persecuting the Indians."
~ER, "Great Expectations," original airdate 1999 November 25th, written by Michael Crichton and Jack Orman
"The pilgrims were kicked out of England, quarrelled with the Dutch, alienated the Indians, and had an evil reputation among the turkeys." ~David J. Beard (1947–2016), tweet, 2008 November 24th
"[W]e recognize the contributions made by Native Americans since long before our founding, and we resolve to continue the work of strengthening government-to-government ties with tribal nations and expanding possibility for all. Native Americans have helped make America what it is today. As we reflect on our history, we must acknowledge the unfortunate chapters of violence, discrimination, and deprivation that went on for far too long, as well as the effects of injustices that continue to be felt. While we cannot undo the pain and tragedy of the past, we can set out together to forge a brighter future of progress and hope across Indian Country and the entire American landscape." ~Barack Obama, 2015 October 30th, quoted from The White House Office of the Press Secretary, "Presidential Proclamation — National Native American Heritage Month, 2015"
"What we need are critical lovers of America — patriots who express their faith in their country by working to improve it." ~Hubert H. Humphrey
"The United States is the only country with a known birthday." ~James G. Blaine
"Oh, it's home again and home again, America for me!
I want a ship that's westward bound to plough the rolling sea
To the blessed land of Room Enough beyond the ocean bars,
Where the air is full of sunlight and the flag is full of stars."
~Henry Van Dyke
"America is not just a country, but a way of life." ~Anonymous Kansan, 1940
"It is the flag just as much of the man who was naturalized yesterday as of the men whose people have been here many generations." ~Henry Cabot Lodge
"My Country 'tis of thee." It is difficult to say with any academical exactitude who was the original perpetrator of this ambrosial ambiguity, but if it was not Theobold the Thug as he bit his native sod in days of yore, then of a verity it was some patriotic patrician historically hysterical, or perchance a frenzied farmer paradoxically placing a monetary "monkey" on his broad acres to satisfy his narrow creditors; but whosoever unleashed this Utopian euphonism provided elocutionary evidence that, field of blood or field of spud, the spirit which has made the land fit for heroes and harrows has not come uncorked—the spirit which has produced the country where husbandmen—and bachelors too—have converted the open spaces to oaten places; the spirit which has moved them to wangle the mangel, capitalise the cow, and till the paddocks to pad the tills." ~Kenneth Alfred Evelyn Alexander (c.1890–1953), "Utopian Euphonisms," in The New Zealand Railways Magazine, 1930 January 1st
"America is much more than a geographical fact. It is a political and moral fact — the first community in which men set out in principle to institutionalize freedom, responsible government, and human equality." ~Adlai Stevenson
"If you can speak three languages you're trilingual. If you can speak two languages you're bilingual. If you can speak only one language you're an American." ~Author unknown
"Very little is known about the War of 1812 because the Americans lost it." ~Eric Nicol
"America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization." ~Georges Clemenceau
"The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples." ~Walter Lippman
"In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from." ~Peter Alexander Ustinov
"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." ~Isaac Asimov, in Newsweek, 1980 January 21st #teaparty
"If America ever passes out as a great nation, we ought to put on our tombstone: America died from a delusion she had Moral Leadership." ~Will Rogers
"We Americans have no commission from God to police the world." ~Benjamin Harrison, address to Congress, 1888
"Americans think of themselves collectively as a huge rescue squad on twenty-four-hour call to any spot on the globe where dispute and conflict may erupt." ~Eldridge Cleaver
"America is the only country ever founded on the printed word." ~Marshall McLuhan
"The winds that blow through the wide sky in these mounts, the winds that sweep from Canada to Mexico, from the Pacific to the Atlantic — have always blown on free men." ~Franklin D. Roosevelt
"I pledge allegiance to the Earth, and to the flora, fauna and human life that it supports, one planet, indivisible, with safe air, water and soil, economic justice, equal rights and peace for all." ~Women's Foreign Policy Council, "Pledge of Allegiance to the Family of Earth," 1989
"Oh Beautiful for smoggy skies, insecticided grain,
For strip-mined mountain's majesty above the asphalt plain.
America, America, man sheds his waste on thee,
And hides the pines with billboard signs, from sea to oily sea."
~George Carlin
"The Constitution of the United States of America, Article V, Section 1: There shall be a National Anthem containing incomprehensible words and a high note that normal humans cannot hit without risk of a hernia." ~Dave Barry
"American culture thrives on appearances, swallows the grit and beauty that lies under its glassy facades and spits out the remains in dilapidated, dirty dollar signs." ~Cecily Schmidt, "Common Threads," in Wild Child: Girlhoods in the Counterculture edited by Chelsea Cain, 1999
"America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people." ~Gloria Steinem
"An American has no sense of privacy. He does not know what it means. There is no such thing in the country." ~George Bernard Shaw, "Political Madhouse in America and Nearer Home: A Lecture," 1933
"The trouble with America is that there are far too many wide-open spaces surrounded by teeth." ~Charles Luckman
"America is a place where Jewish merchants sell Zen love beads to agnostics for Christmas." ~John Burton Brimer
"The metaphor of the melting pot is unfortunate and misleading. A more accurate analogy would be a salad bowl, for, though the salad is an e
