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Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain

???This is free ground. All the way from here to the Pacific Ocean. No man has to bow. No man born to royalty. Here we judge you by what you do, not by what your father was. Here you can be something. Here???s a place to build a home. . . It???s the idea that w

Hector St. John de Crevecoeur

The American is a new man, who acts upon new principles; he must therefore entertain new ideas, and form new opinions. . . . Here individuals of all nations are melted into a new race of men, whose labours and posterity will one day cause great changes i

Walt Disney

The main village, which includes the Railroad station, is built around a village green or informal park. In the park will be benches, a bandstand, drinking fountain, trees, and shrubs. It will be a place for people to sit and rest; mothers and grandmothe

Emma Lazarus

Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to be free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans -- born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage and un

Dan Rather

The American Dream [is] one of the greatest ideas in the history of human achievement . . . It thrives today in an age when its core components of freedom and opportunity are open to more Americans than ever before. It holds a real, identifiable place in

David Riesman

America is not only big and rich, it is mysterious; and its capacity for the humorous or ironical concealment of its interests matches that of the legendary inscrutable Chinese.

Israel Zangwill

America is God???s Crucible, the great Melting Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and reforming! 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 . .

Lin Yutang

The three great American vices seem to be efficiency, punctuality, and the desire for achievement and success. They are the things that make the Americans so unhappy and so nervous.

George W. Bush

America has never been an empire. We may be the only great power in history that had the chance, and refused ??“ preferring greatness to power and justice to glory.

Bob Dylan

I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.

Waldo Frank

We go forth all to seek America. And in the seeking we create her. In the quality of our search shall be the nature of the America that we created.

Albert Einstein

Our democracy must be not only the envy of the world but the engine of our own renewal. There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.

Dan Quayle

It's rural America. It's where I came from. We always refer to ourselves as real America. Rural America, real America, real, real, America.

William J. Clinton

There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.

Alexis Charles Henri Clrel de Tocqueville

America is a land of wonders, in which everything is in constant motion and every change seems an improvement. No natural boundary seems to be set to the efforts of man and in his eyes what is not yet done is only what he has not attempted to do. - from Democracy in America

Henry M. Jackson

America is not like a blanket -- one piece of unbroken cloth, the same color, the same texture, the same size. America is more like a quilt -- many patches, many pieces, many colors, many sizes, all woven and held together by a common thread.

Harry S Truman

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination, and unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

Jesse Louis Jackson

America is not like a blanket-one piece of unbroken cloth, the same color, the same texture, the same size. America is more like a quilt-many patches, many pieces, many colors, many sizes, all woven and held together by a common thread.

Dwight D Eisenhower

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

Janina Atkins

I love America because America trusts me. When I go into a shop to buy a pair of shoes I am not asked to produce my Identity Card. I love it because my mail is not censored. My phone is not tapped. My conversation with friends is not reported to the secret police.

James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense ... human rights invented America.

Tony Blair

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.

Carl Sandburg

I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the crimson light of a rising sun fresh from the burning, creative hand of God. I see great days ahead, great days possible to men and women of will and vision.

Malcolm X

Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner, unless you eat some of what's on that plate. Being here in America doesn't make you an American. Being born here in America doesn't make you an American.

David Frost

America is closer to the year 2 than anywhere else on earth.

Shirley Chisholm

I don't measure America by its achievement but by its potential.

Coming to America

Rev. Brown If lovin' the lord is wrong, I don't want to be right.

Adlai Ewing Stevenson

In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.

Charles Stanton

In America, one gets as much justice as one can afford. (1966)

Old School

Beanie Well, Columbus wasn't looking for America, my man, but that turned out to be pretty okay for everyone.

Oliver L. North

I don't think there is another person in America that wants to tell this story as much as I do. (Invoking Fifth Amendment)

William Safire

No one flower can ever symbolize this nation. America is a bouquet.

Coming to America

Tough girl I'm almost single, my husband's on death row.

Muammar Qaddafi

We are capable of destroying America and breaking its nose.

Gertrude Stein

In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes America what it is.

Dwight D Eisenhower

I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it then.

Adlai E. Jr. Stevenson

In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.

Clive James

Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology.

Laurence J. Peter

America is a country that doesn't know where it is going but is determined to set a speed record getting there.

Wendell Willkie

No man has a right in America to treat any other man tolerantly, for tolerance is the assumption of superiority.

Ronald Reagan

If we don't want to see the map of Central America covered in a sea of red, eventually lapping at our own borders, we must act now.

Shannon Lucid

You think America is the biggest place on Earth, but it's not. The view from Mir put everything in perspective.

Carl Sandburg

One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.

Calvin Coolidge

Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.

Jacques Martin Barzun

Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball.

Robert Orben

Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty.

Coming to America

Reverend Brown Girl, you look so good, someone ought to put you on a plate and sop you up with a biscuit.

George Bernard Shaw

England and America are two countries separated by the same language.

Tom Masson

Think of what would happen to us in America if there were no humorists life would be one long Congressional Record.

Barbara Charline Jordan

What the people want is very simple. They want an America as good as its promise.

Thomas Wolfe

Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America -- that we are fixed and certain only when we are in movement.

Emma Albani

I had always loved beautiful and artistic things, though before leaving America I had had a very little chance of seeing any.

Joe Moore

America Where a man can say what he thinks, if he isn't afraid of his wife, his boss, his customer, his neighbors, or the government.

Elmer Davis

One of the things that is wrong with America is that everybody who has done anything at all in his own field is expected to be an authority on every subject under the sun.

Robert Orben

Every morning I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.

Coming to America

King Jaffe Joffer So you see, my son, there is a very fine line between love and nausea.

Father Andrew SDC

When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white man came, an Indian said simply, Ours.

Henry II Ford

What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them.

I respect every soldier, from every country, who serves beside us in the hard work of history. America is grateful, and America will not forget.

There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.

America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.

About Superman and Batman: the former is how America views itself, the latter, darker character is how the rest of the world views America.

Unique among the nations, America recognized the source of our character as being godly and eternal, not being civic and temporal. And because we have understood that our source is eternal, America has been different. We have no king but Jesus.

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.

I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the crimson light of a rising sun fresh from the burning, creative hand of God. I see great days ahead, great days possible to men and women of will and vision

Europe will never be like America. Europe is a product of history. America is a product of philosophy.

I epitomize America.

"Fix America First!

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

America has been discovered before, but it has always been hushed up.

There is a New America every morning when we wake up. It is upon us whether we will it or not.

We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.

America, why are your libraries full of tears?

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

America is a young country with an old mentality.

America Good Place to Put Chinese Restaurant.

America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.

In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. That is what makes America what it is.

Keep America beautiful.. properly dispose of your lawyer.

America is the greatest of opportunities and the worst of influences.

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

When fascism comes to America, it will come wrapped in the American flag.

The prostitute is the only honest woman left in America.

When Fascism comes to America, it will come wrapped in an American flag.

England and America are two countries seperated by the same language.

In America sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it is a fact.

How come we choose from just two people to run for president and 50 for Miss America?

The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.

What a pity, when Christopher Colombus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.

What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.

On Thanksgiving Day all over America, families sit down to dinner at the same moment - halftime.

England and America are two countries separated by a common language.

America is the land of wide lawns and narrow minds.

America will never run... And we will always be grateful that liberty has found such brave defenders.

In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.

All great change in America begins at the dinner table.

America: the only country in the world where failing to promote yourself is regarded as being arrogant.

America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our country.

Think of what would happen to us in America if there were no humorists; life would be one long Congressional Record.

America is the country where you buy a lifetime supply of aspirin for one dollar and use it up in two weeks.

The trouble with America is that there are far too many wide-open spaces surrounded by teeth.

By heritage and by choice, the United States of America will make that stand.

Washington DC is the only place in America where people put bumper stickers on their cars the day *after* the election.

If America shows weakness and uncertainty, the world will drift toward tragedy. That will not happen on my watch.

I now begin the journey that will lead me into the sunset of my life. I know that for America there will always be a bright dawn ahead.

There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence and energy of her citizens cannot cure.

America - a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose.

The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.