America Quotes

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
Abraham Lincoln

Lose, Ourselves, Outside

All great change in America begins at the dinner table.
Ronald Reagan

Change, Great, Begins

My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.
Abraham Lincoln

Time, Best, Hope

The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.
Theodore Roosevelt

Life, Love, Living

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
Oscar Wilde

Country, Between, Barbarism

It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.
Mark Twain

Find, Wonderful, Miss

America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.
Hunter S. Thompson

Money, Car, Two

Building a better you is the first step to building a better America.
Zig Ziglar

America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.
Barack Obama

Islam, Justice, Human

If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers.
Nelson Mandela

Ask, United, Africa

I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too.
Thomas Jefferson

Book, Become, United

The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I, therefore, intend to oppose the effort to increase America's debt.
Barack Obama

Leadership, Failure, Today

I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.
John F. Kennedy

Great, Power, Strength

Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted.
Thomas Jefferson

Peace, While, Order

In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.
Oscar Wilde

President, Forever, Four

When you're born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you're born in America, you get a front row seat.
George Carlin

Show, Born, Freak

In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
Oscar Wilde

Give, Young, Themselves

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
Oscar Wilde

After, Perhaps, Discovered

I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them.
Barack Obama

Marriage, Gay, Woman

There is not a liberal America and a conservative America - there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America - there's the United States of America.
Barack Obama

Black, United, Liberal

Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong.
Ronald Reagan

Today, Wrong, Passive

The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of war and hate... we want to build a world of peace where the weak are secure and the strong are just.
John F. Kennedy

Peace, War, Hate

No one has been barred on account of his race from fighting or dying for America, there are no white or colored signs on the foxholes or graveyards of battle.
John F. Kennedy

Battle, Fighting, Dying

Let us not forget who we are. Drug abuse is a repudiation of everything America is.
Ronald Reagan

Forget, Everything, Abuse

America has tossed its cap over the wall of space.
John F. Kennedy

Space, Wall, Cap

All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.
John Adams

Nature, Ignorance, Confusion

America is another name for opportunity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

America cannot continue to lead the family of nations around the world if we suffer the collapse of the family here at home.
Mitt Romney

Family, Home, Cannot

Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Women, Men, May

France, and the whole of Europe have a great culture and an amazing history. Most important thing though is that people there know how to live! In America they've forgotten all about it. I'm afraid that the American culture is a disaster.
Johnny Depp

Great, History, Amazing

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