America Quotes

• "I don't measure America by its achievement but by its potential."
  By: Shirley Chisholm
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• "This is free ground. All the way from here to the Pacific Ocean. No man has to bow. No man born to royalty. Here we judge you by what you do, not by what your father was. Here you can be something. Here’s a place to build a home. . . It’s the idea that we all have value, you and me . . .”"
  By: Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
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• "The story of America is the story of expanding liberty: an ever-widening circle, constantly growing to reach further and include more. Our nation's founding commitment is still our deepest commitment: In our world, and here at home, we will extend the frontiers of freedom."
  By: George W. Bush
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• "America will never run ... And we will always be grateful that liberty has found such brave defenders."
  By: George W. Bush
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• "America has never been an empire. We may be the only great power in history that had the chance, and refused – preferring greatness to power and justice to glory."
  By: George W. Bush
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• "Americans are just beginning to regard food the way the French always have. Dinner is not what you do in the evening before something else. Dinner is the evening."
  By: Art Buchwald
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• "Americans are far more remarkable than we give ourselves credit for. We've been so busy damning ourselves for years. We've done it all, and yet we don't take credit for it."
  By: Ray Bradbury
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• "There's the country of America, which you have to defend, but there's also the idea of America. America is more than just a country, it's an idea. An idea that's supposed to be contagious."
  By: Bono
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• "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."
  By: Tony Blair
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• "In America there are two classes of travel: first class and with childen."
  By: Robert Benchley
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• "In America, if you put your mind to it you can have anything you want. You just can't have everything you want."
  By: Bernard Baruch
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• "The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It’s over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam."
  By: J. G. Ballard
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• "What a pity, when Christopher Colombus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it."
  By: Margot Asquith
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• "Before you guys came along, we hunted and fished when we wanted to, the women did all the work, and we paid no taxes. And you thought you could improve on this system? Indians have to deal with four "B.C."s: Before Christ, Before Columbus, Before Custer, and before Costner.""
  By: Adam Fortunate Eagle (Native American Artist, World Affairs Conference, U. of Colorado 1993)
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• "America ... a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose."
  By: Herbert Hoover
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• "I am certain that, however great the hardships and the trials which loom ahead, our America will endure and the cause of human freedom will triumph."
  By: Cordell Hull
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