America - Americans Quotes

If there is anything that makes this country what I have called the crown jewel of nations, it is freedom. I believe that remains so central to our identity that the American people will never tire of it. It is the root value that makes this country comfortable for all of us.

The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, New Englanders are no more. I am not a Virginian, but an American!

What good man would prefer a country covered with forests and ranged by a few thousand savages to our extensive Republic, studded with cities, towns, and prosperous farms, embellished with all the improvements which art can devise or industry execute.

The most amazing feature of American life is its boundless publicity. Everybody has to meet everybody, and they even seem to enjoy this enormity. To a central European such as I am, this American publicity of life, the lack of distance between people, the absence of hedges or fences round the gardens, the belief in […]

We need some great statements about what America is about and what we can do about it.

It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self-conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations are in a conspiracy to under-value them.

There must have been something so very right about Americanism, for in the days it was practiced it brought us from thirteen undeveloped colonies to the world’s greatest-ever nation and brought Americans to new highs in life, liberty and well-being.

Disobedience is in our DNA. We feel innate kinship with that Disobedient spirit that tossed tea into Boston Harbor, that sent Thoreau to jail, that refused to sit in the back of the bus, that protested a war in Viet Nam.

We are destined to be a barrier against the return of ignorance and barbarism. Old Europe will have to lean on our shoulders, and to hobble along by our side, under the monkish trammels of priests and kings, as she can. What a colossus shall we be when the southern continent comes up to our […]

America is not Europe. America was created as an escape from, and antidote to, Europe. American “unilateralism,” as its critics call it, has not produced anything like perfect leadership. But there are worse “isms” than unilateralism, and three are imperialism, fascism and communism. A century of American resolve, often in the face of European disdain, […]