America - Americans Quotes

America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarianism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.

The standardized American is largely a myth created not least by Americans themselves.

If America is to be great in the future, it will be if we understand that our source is not civic and temporal, but our source is godly and eternal.

Un-American, adj. Wicked, intolerable, heathenish.

For the first time in a long time, our leaders in Washington understand what Americans of all religious backgrounds have long held to be true: through faith, all things are possible.

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.

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

Contrary to much contemporary wisdom, the United States has one of the longest uninterrupted political traditions of any nation in the world. What is more, that tradition is unambiguous; its meaning is articulated in simple, rational speech that is immediately comprehensible and powerfully persuasive to all normal human beings. America tells one story: the unbroken, […]

We (Americans) cheerfully assume that in some mystic way love conquers all, that good outweighs evil in the just balances of the universe and that at the eleventh hour something gloriously triumphant will prevent the worst before it happens.

America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered.