America Quotes

• "My rackets are run on strictly American lines and they're going to stay that way."
  By: Al Capone
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• "Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve [referring to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon]."
  By: George Walker Bush
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• "One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife...."
  By: Robert Whitney Boynton
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• "The problem is that Americans would like to be independent of the rest of the world ... Except the world ain't that way. Trying to be independent of the rest of the world is to commit suicide."
  By: Ben(jamin William) Bova
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• "[Americans] expect to eat and stay thin, to be constantly on the move and ever more neighborly...to revere God and be God."
  By: Daniel J(oseph) Boorstin
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• "Ours is a country built more on people than on territory. The Jews will come from everywhere: from France, from Russia, from America, from Yemen. ... Their faith is their passport."
  By: Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe
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• "When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white man came, an Indian said simply, "Ours."
  By: Father Andrew SDC
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• "Home from the lonely cities, time's wreck, and the naked woe, Home through the clean great waters where freeman's pennants blow, Home to the land men dream of, where all the nations go."
  By: George Edward Woodberry, Homeward Bound
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• "-----to every man his chance --to every man, regardless of his birth, his shining, golden opportunity --to every man the right to live, to work, to be himself, and to become whatever his manhood and his vision can combine to make him --this, seeker, is the promise of America."
  By: Thomas Wolfe (Thomas Clayton Wolfe)
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• "We want the spirit of America to be efficient; we want American character to be efficient; we want American character to display itself in what I may, perhaps, be allowed to call spiritual efficiency--clear, disinterested thinking and fearless action along the right lines of thought. America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us; and it can consist of all of us only as our spirits are banded together in a common enterprise. That common enterprise is the enterprise of liberty and justice and right. And, therefore, I, for my part, have a great enthusiasm for rendering American spiritually efficient; and that conception lies at the basis of what seems very far removed from it, namely, the plans that have been proposed for the military efficiency of this nation."
  By: Thomas Woodrow Wilson, in a speech at Pittsburgh
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• "Just what is it that America stands for? If she stands for one thing more than another, it is for the sovereignty of self-governing people, and her example, her assistance, her encouragement, has thrilled two continents in this western world with all those fine impulses which have built up human liberty on sides of the water. She stands, therefore, as an example of independence, as an example of free institutions, and as an example of disinterested international action in the main tenets of justice."
  By: Thomas Woodrow Wilson, in a speech at Pittsburgh
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• "America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses."
  By: Thomas Woodrow Wilson
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• "America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand."
  By: Thomas Woodrow Wilson
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• "The youth of America is their tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years."
  By: Oscar Wilde (Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde), A Woman of No Importance (act I)
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• "America has been discovered before, but it has always been hushed up."
  By: Oscar Wilde (Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde)
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• "We must consult Brother Jonathon."
  By: George Washington, in reference to his secretary and Aide-de-camp, Col. Jonathon Trumbull
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