America - Americans Quotes

Americans believe that freedom was their invention. They have been known to send peace-corps troops to Athens to teach the Greeks the meaning of democracy.

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

Since the first settlement of the British colonies, the number of inhabitants has about doubled every twenty-two years. I perceive no causes which are likely to check this progressive increase of the Anglo-American population for the next hundred years; and before that space of time has elapsed, I believe that the territories and dependencies of […]

At times the United States are about as elegant as an elephant dancing on its toes.

The day is not far distant when three Stars and Stripes at three equidistant points will mark our territory: one at the North Pole, another at the Panama Canal and the third at the South Pole. The whole hemisphere will be ours in fact as, by virtue of our superiority of race, it already is […]

The people reign over the American political world as God rules over the universe. It is the cause and the end of all things; everything rises out of it and it absorbed back into it.

I like the German fir-woods, in green battalions drilled. I like the gardens of Versailles with flashing fountains filled; But, oh, to take your hand, my dear, and ramble for a day In the friendly western woodland where Nature has her way!… Oh, it’s home again, and home again, America for me! I want a […]

I’d rather see America save her soul than her face.

If I were asked… to what the singular prosperity and growing strength of that people ought mainly to be attributed, I should reply: To the superiority of their (American) women.

A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy but won’t cross the street to vote in a national election.