America Quotes

• "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."
  By: David Riesman
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• "The people of the United States, perhaps more than any other nation in history, love to abase themselves and proclaim their unworthiness, and seem to find refreshment in doing so ... That is a dark frivolity, but still frivolity."
  By: Robertson Davies
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• "October is a fine and dangerous season in America...a wonderful time to begin anything at all. You go to college, and every course in the catalogue looks wonderful."
  By: Thomas Merton
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• "Had the King of Spain employed the hands of his people, and his Spanish iron so, he had brought to light but little of that treasure that lay so long hid in the dark entrails of America."
  By: John Locke
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• "Intellectually, I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country."
  By: Sinclair Lewis
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• "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!"
  By: Emma Lazarus
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• "I believe America's best days are ahead of us because I believe that the future belongs to freedom, not to fear."
  By: John Kerry
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• "This is the story of America. Everybody's doing what they think they're supposed to do."
  By: Jack Kerouac
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• "Growing up female in America. What a liability! You grew up with your ears full of cosmetic ads, love songs, advice columns, whoreoscopes, Hollywood gossip, and moral dilemmas on the level of TV soap operas."
  By: Erica Jong
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• "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."
  By: Jesse Jackson
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• "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."
  By: Henry Ford II
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• "Most people are looking for security, a nice, safe, prosperous future. And there's nothing wrong with that. It's called the American Dream."
  By: Lee Iacocca
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• "America is therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the World's History shall reveal itself."
  By: Georg W. Hegel
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• "America is woven of many strands. I would recognize them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many. This is not prophecy, but description."
  By: Ralph Ellison
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• "The standardized American is largely a myth created not least by Americans themselves."
  By: Irwin Edman
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• "I don't measure America by its achievement but by its potential."
  By: Shirley Chisholm
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