Oh beautiful, for smoggy skies, o’er insecticide waves of grain, and strip-mined mountain’s majesty, above the asphalt plains! America, America, man sheds his waste on thee! And hides the pines, with billboard signs, from sea to oily sea!
America - Americans Quotes
When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white man came, an Indian said simply, ‘Ours’.
Our American values are not luxuries but necessities, not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. Our common vision of a free and just society is our greatest source of cohesion at home and strength abroad, greater than the bounty of our material blessings.
Everywhere around the world They’re coming to America Everytime that flags unfurled They’re coming to America Got a dream to take them there They’re coming to America Got a dream they come to share They’re coming to America They’re coming to America.
I have no further use for America. I wouldn’t go back there if Jesus Christ was President.
U.S.A. is the slice of a continent. U.S.A. is a group of holding companies, some aggregations of trade unions, a set of laws bound in calf, a radio network, a chain of moving picture theatres, a column of stock quotations rubbed out and written in by a Western Union boy on a blackboard, a public […]
The Yankee is a dab at electricity and crime, He tells you how he hustles and it takes him quite a time. I like his hospitality that’s cordial and frank, I do not mind his money, but I do not like his swank.
In thinking of America, I sometimes find myself admiring her bright blue sky-her grand old woods-her fertile fields – her beautiful rivers – her mighty lakes and star-crowned mountains. But my rapture is soon checked when I remember that all is cursed with the infernal spirit of slave-holding and wrong; When I remember that with […]
The historic glory of America lies in the fact that it is the one nation that was founded like a church. That is, it was founded on a faith that was not merely summed up after it had existed; it was defined before it existed.
It is always a joy to meet an American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believe that the folly of a monarch and the blundering of a minister in far-gone years will not prevent our children from being some day citizens of the same world-wide country under a flag which shall be […]
