United States Of America Quotes - Page 2

• 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

  Powerful, Patriotic, White

  2004 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 27 July 2004, Fleet Center, Boston

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• America is a tune. It must be sung together.

  Gerald Stanley Lee

  Inspirational, 4th Of July, Patriotic

  Gerald Stanley Lee (1913). “Crowds: A Moving-picture of Democracy”

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• This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Country, Freedom, 4th Of July

  First Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1861

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• We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Life, Change, Happiness

  Declaration of Independence (1776).

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• America! America!
  God shed His grace on thee
  And crown thy good with brotherhood
  From sea to shinning sea!

  Katharine Lee Bates

  4th Of July, Sea, America

  "America the Beautiful" (song) (1893)

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• 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

  America, Political, United States

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The land flourished because it was fed from so many sources--because it was nourished by so many cultures and traditions and peoples.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Land, Immigration, Culture

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.1039, Best Books on

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• Some Americans need hyphens in their names, because only part of them has come over; but when the whole man has come over, heart and thought and all, the hyphen drops of its own weight out of his name.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Heart, Patriotic, Men

  Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.30, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.

  Woodrow Wilson

  4th Of July, Patriotic, America

  Address supporting League of Nations, Sioux Falls, S.D., 8 Sept. 1919

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• America! America! God shed His grace on thee.

  Katharine Lee Bates

  4th Of July, America, Grace

  "America the Beautiful" (song) (1893)

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• In the first place we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the man's becoming in very fact an American, and nothing but an American.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, Firsts, Facts

  Theodore Roosevelt (1954). “Letters of Theodore Roosevelt: The days of Armageddon, 1900-1914”

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  My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor.

  Herbert Hoover

  Girl, Country, Boys

  Letter to Senator George H. Moses on June 14, 1928. "The Memoirs of Herbert Hoover", volume 2, p. 195, 1952.

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• There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America.

  Barack Obama

  Patriotic, America, Political

  Barack Obama (2008). “Yes, We Can”, p.47, BoD – Books on Demand

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• Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed, as they are in almost every country in Europe.

  Noah Webster

  Country, Army, Gun

  Noah Webster (1787). “An Examination Into the Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution Proposed by the Late Convention Held at Philadelphia: With Answers to the Principal Objections that Have Been Raised Against the System”, p.43

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• I know that for America there will always be a bright dawn ahead.

  Ronald Reagan

  America, Dawn, Alzheimer

  Letter to the American people, 5 Nov. 1994

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• There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Country, Presidential, Rooms

  Speech, New York, N.Y., 12 Oct. 1915

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• America has never been united by blood or birth or soil. We are bound by ideals that move us beyond our backgrounds, lift us above our interests and teach us what it means to be citizens.

  George W. Bush

  Moving, Mean, Blood

  First Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 2001

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• When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies glistening in the sun, the wide and rising plains, the great mountains, and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self-respect.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Country, Mean, Patriotic

  "Lend Me Your Ears : Great Speeches In History" by William Safire, (p. 81 - 82), 2004.

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• These acts shattered steel, but they cannot dent the steel of America's resolve.

  George W. Bush

  Military, Terror Attacks, America

  "Bush: U.S. feels 'quiet, unyielding anger" by Ian Christopher McCaleb, www.cnn.com. September 12, 2001.

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• The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as his father, in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Jesus, Atheist

  Thomas Jefferson (1984). “Jefferson: Writings”, p.1970, Library of America

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• Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Law, Presidential

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Reports of Cases Determined in the General Court of Virginia: From 1730, to 1740; and from 1768, to 1772”, p.140

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• Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!

  Ronald Reagan

  Wall, Memorable, Europe

  Remarks at Brandenburg Gate, West Berlin, Germany, 12 June 1987

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• There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag...We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language...and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Loyalty, Men, People

  "Teddy Roosevelt's Immigration Speech Holds True Today" by Barbara Wamboldt, www.thewhig.com. July 07, 2010.

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• America is a mistake, a giant mistake.

  Sigmund Freud

  Mistake, Usa, America

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• Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore, send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me: I lift my lamp beside the golden door.

  Emma Lazarus

  Inspirational, Freedom, Tired

  "The New Colossus" l. 10 (1883).

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