America - Americans Quotes

The contemporary American faith that it is a universal nation implies that all humans are born American, and become anything else by accident – or error.

America is another name for opportunity. Our whole history appears like a last effort of divine providence on behalf of the human race.

America at the beginning of the twenty-first century is rich beyond all reckoning. The Communist superpower with which it grappled for half a century lies shattered at America’s feet, begging for American aid, technology, and investment… The United States leads the world in learning and the arts, in science and technology, in business and finance. […]

I’m proud to be an American where at least I know I’m free. And I won’t forget the men who died, who gave that right to me. And I’d gladly stand up next to you and defend her still today. ‘Cause there ain’t no doubt I love this land. God bless the USA.

America is a country of young men.

What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is understand others.

Ours is the only country deliberately founded on a good idea.

The fact is that most Americans have no idea of what they and their country look like to the outside world. I have seen the glance that follows them: tourists in the streets of Mexico, soldiers on leave in Far Eastern cities, businessmen in Italy or Sweden. The same glance is cast on your embassies, […]

America is showing some signs of that fatal presumption, that over -extension of power and mission, which bought ruin to Ancient Athens, to Napoleonic France and to Nazi Germany.

This land is your land, this land is my land, From California to the New York island, From the redwood forest to the Gulf Stream waters, This land was made for you and me.