{"id":81451,"date":"2023-02-12T18:33:47","date_gmt":"2023-02-12T18:33:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.english-culture.com\/?p=81451"},"modified":"2024-12-02T17:53:25","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T17:53:25","slug":"quotes-on-america-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.english-culture.com\/quotes-on-america-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Quotes on America (part 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"America<\/a>
America is another name for opportunity. Ralph Waldo Emerson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Quotes on America (Part 1), aphorisms and quotations on the United Staes of America, the country and its great people.<\/span><\/p>\n

England and America are two countries separated by the same language.<\/span>
\n George Bernard Shaw<\/span><\/p>\n

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.<\/span>
\n George Bernard Shaw<\/span><\/p>\n

All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.<\/span>
\n John Adams<\/span><\/p>\n

I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.<\/span>
\n John Adams<\/span><\/p>\n

America must not ignore the threat gathering against us. Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof, the smoking gun that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud.<\/span>
\n George W. Bush<\/span><\/p>\n

On September 11 2001, America felt its vulnerability even to threats that gather on the other side of the Earth. We resolved then, and we are resolved today, to confront every threat from any source that could bring sudden terror and suffering to America.<\/span>
\n George W. Bush<\/span><\/p>\n

I see America spreading disaster. I see America as a black curse upon the world. I see a long night settling in and that mushroom which has poisoned the world withering at the roots.<\/span>
\n Henry Miller<\/span><\/p>\n

I have never been able to look upon America as young and vital but rather as prematurely old, as a fruit which rotted before it had a chance to ripen.<\/span>
\n Henry Miller<\/span><\/p>\n

America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn’t standing still.<\/span>
\n E. E. Cummings<\/span><\/p>\n

France, and the whole of Europe have a great culture and an amazing history. Most important thing though is that people there know how to live! In America they’ve forgotten all about it. I’m afraid that the American culture is a disaster.<\/span>
\n Johnny Depp<\/span><\/p>\n

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.<\/span>
\n Harry S. Truman<\/span><\/p>\n

I’ve said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representatives was the most un-American thing in America!<\/span>
\n Harry S. Truman<\/span><\/p>\n

And my point was one I think that you’d agree with, which is there’s no room in America for a black racist, a Latino racist, or a white racist, or an Asian racist, or a Native American racist. Now, we’re either color blind or we’re not color blind.<\/span>
\n Newt Gingrich<\/span><\/p>\n

I believe we are now in a struggle over whether or not we are going to save America.<\/span>
\n Newt Gingrich<\/span><\/p>\n

The most important social welfare program in America is a job.<\/span>
\n Newt Gingrich<\/span><\/p>\n

Watching President Obama apologize last week for America’s arrogance – before a French audience that owes its freedom to the sacrifices of Americans – helped convince me that he has a deep-seated antipathy toward American values and traditions.<\/span>
\n Rick Santorum<\/span><\/p>\n

If all you think we need to do to get this economy going and get this country on the right track is to cut government and reduce taxes, you don’t understand America. America is a moral enterprise, not an economic enterprise.<\/span>
\n Rick Santorum<\/span><\/p>\n

I believe in capitalism for everybody, not necessarily high finance but capitalism that works for the working men and women of this country who are out there paddling alone in America right now.<\/span>
\n Rick Santorum<\/span><\/p>\n

It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.<\/span>
\n Mark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.<\/span>
\n Oscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.<\/span>
\n Oscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n

In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs for ever and ever.<\/span>
\n Oscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.<\/span>
\n Oscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n

All great change in America begins at the dinner table.<\/span>
\n Ronald Reagan<\/span><\/p>\n

I don’t measure America by its achievement but by its potential.<\/span>
\n Shirley Chisholm<\/span><\/p>\n

America is a mistake, a giant mistake.<\/span>
\n Sigmund Freud<\/span><\/p>\n

Intellectually, I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.<\/span>
\n Sinclair Lewis<\/span><\/p>\n

I just want to say this. I want to say it gently but I want to say it firmly: There is a tendency for the world to say to America, “the big problems of the world are yours, you go and sort them out,” and then to worry when America wants to sort them out.<\/span>
\n Tony Blair<\/span><\/p>\n

You Europeans know nothing about America. Because we amass large fortunes you think we care for nothing but money. We are nothing for it; the moment we have it we spend it, sometimes well, sometimes ill, but we spend it. Money is nothing to us; it’s merely the symbol of success. We are the greatest idealists in the world; I happen to think that we’ve set our ideal on the wrong objects; I happen to think that the greatest ideal man can set before himself is self-perfection.<\/span>
\n W. Somerset Maugham<\/span><\/p>\n

I know nothing grander, better exercise, better digestion, more positive proof of the past, the triumphant result of faith in human kind, than a well-contested American national election.<\/span>
\n Walt Whitman<\/span><\/p>\n

Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people.<\/span>
\n Walt Whitman<\/span><\/p>\n

The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.<\/span>
\n Walt Whitman<\/span><\/p>\n

There’s the one thing no nation can ever accuse us of and that is secret diplomacy. Our foreign are an open book, generally a check book.<\/span>
\n Will Rogers<\/span><\/p>\n

America is not a mere body of traders; it is a body of free men. Our greatness-built upon freedom-is moral, not material. we have a great ardor for gain; but we have a deep passion for the rights of man.<\/span>
\n Woodrow Wilson<\/span><\/p>\n

America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses.<\/span>
\n Woodrow Wilson<\/span><\/p>\n

Just what is it that America stands for? If she stands for one thing more than another it is for the sovereignty of self-governing people.<\/span>
\n Woodrow Wilson<\/span><\/p>\n

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.<\/span>
\n Abraham Lincoln<\/span><\/p>\n

My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.<\/span>
\n Abraham Lincoln<\/span><\/p>\n

It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.<\/span>
\n Mark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

\"American<\/a>
American Quotes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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.<\/span>
\nJames A. Baldwin<\/span><\/p>\n

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.<\/span>
\n Oscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n

In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.<\/span>
\n Oscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.<\/span>
\n Oscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n

In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.<\/span>
\n Oscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n

With our technology, with objects, literally three people in a garage can blow away what 200 people at Microsoft can do. Literally can blow it away. Corporate America has a need that is so huge and can save them so much money, or make them so much money, or cost them so much money if they miss it, that they are going to fuel the object revolution.<\/span>
\n Steve Jobs<\/span><\/p>\n

All great change in America begins at the dinner table.<\/span>
\n Ronald Reagan<\/span><\/p>\n

I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too.<\/span>
\n Thomas Jefferson<\/span><\/p>\n

Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted.<\/span>
\n Thomas Jefferson<\/span><\/p>\n

No one has been barred on account of his race from fighting or dying for America, there are no white or colored signs on the foxholes or graveyards of battle.<\/span>
\n John F. Kennedy<\/span><\/p>\n

America has tossed its cap over the wall of space.<\/span>
\n John F. Kennedy<\/span><\/p>\n

I look forward to a great future for America – a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.<\/span>
\n John F. Kennedy<\/span><\/p>\n

The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of war and hate… we want to build a world of peace where the weak are secure and the strong are just.<\/span>
\n John F. Kennedy<\/span><\/p>\n

Let us not forget who we are. Drug abuse is a repudiation of everything America is.<\/span>
\n Ronald Reagan<\/span><\/p>\n

Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong.<\/span>
\n Ronald Reagan<\/span><\/p>\n

If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don’t ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers.<\/span>
\n Nelson Mandela<\/span>
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