America Quotes

• "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."
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• "America will never run… And we will always be grateful that liberty has found such brave defenders."
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• "A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won’t cross the street to vote in a national election."
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• "We need an America with the wisdom of experience. But we must not let America grow old in spirit."
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• "When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white man came, an Indian said simply, “Ours.”"
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• "You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they’ve tried everything else."
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• "America’s one of the finest countries anyone ever stole."
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• "In America any boy may become President and I suppose it’s just one of the risks he takes."
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• "All of us, from the wealthiest to the young children that I have seen in this country, in this year, bloated by starvation --- we all share one precious possesion, and that is the name American. It is not easy to know what that means. But, in part, to be."
  By: Kennedy, Robert
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• "His home!--the Western giant smiles, And turns the spotty globe to find it;-- This little speck the British Isles? 'Tis but a freckle,--never mind it."
  By: Holmes, Oliver Wendell
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• "Long as thine Art shall love true love, Long as thy Science truth shall know, Long as thine Eagle harms no Dove, Long as thy Law by law shall grow, Long as thy God is God above, Thy brother every man below,-- So long, dear Land of all my love, Thy name shall shine, thy fame shall glow!"
  By: Lanier, Sidney
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• "How has New England's romance fled, Even as a vision of the morning! Its right foredone,--its guardians dead,-- Its priestesses, bereft of dread, Waking the veriest urchin's scorning! * * * * * And now our modern Yankee sees Nor omens, spells, nor mysteries; And naught above, below, around, Of life or death, of sight or sound, Whate'er its nature, form, or look, Excites his terror or surprise,-- All seeming to his knowing eyes Familiar as his "catechize," Or "Webster's Spelling-Book."
  By: Whittier, John
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• "They love their land because it is their own, And scorn to give aught other reason why; Would shake hands with a king upon his throne, And think it kindness to his majesty."
  By: Halleck, Fitz
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• "Down to the Plymouth Rock, that had been to their feet as a doorstep Into a world unknown,--the corner-stone of a nation!"
  By: Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
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• "Around I see The powers that be; I stand by Empire's primal springs; And princes meet In every street, And hear the tread of uncrowned kings! * * * * * Not lightly fall Beyond recall The written scrolls a breath can float; The crowning fact The kingliest act Of Freedom is the freeman's vote!"
  By: Whittier, John
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