Motivational Quotes

America

The interesting and inspiring thing about America is that she asks nothing for herself except what she has a right to ask for humanity itself.

- Wilson, Woodrow T.

Best Quotes about America

It is always dangerous to generalize, but the American people, while infinitely generous, are a hard and strong race and, but for the few cemeteries I have seen, I am inclined to think they never die.

Asquith, Margot

It's difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn't available.

Reagan, Ronald

The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam...

Ballard, J. G.

Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.

Macarthur, Douglas

Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up for simulation, is the only remaining primitive society.

Baudrillard, Jean

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.

Margaret Thatcher

Of all the nations in the world, the United States was built in nobody's image. It was the land of the unexpected, of unbounded hope, of ideals, of quest for an unknown perfection. It is all the more unfitting that we should offer ourselves in images. And all the more fitting that the images which we make wittingly or unwittingly to sell America to the world should come back to haunt and curse us.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

America is a mistake, a giant mistake.

Sigmund Freud

People in America, of course, live in all sorts of fashions, because they are foreigners, or unlucky, or depraved, or without ambition; people live like that, but Americans live in white detached houses with green shutters. Rigidly, blindly, the dream takes precedence.

Mead, Margaret

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American dreams are strongest in the hearts of those who have seen America only in their dreams.

Iyer, Pico

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

Fuentes, Carlos

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I believe America's best days are ahead of us because I believe that the future belongs to freedom, not to fear.

John Kerry

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American is a very difficult language mixed with English.

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There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence and energy of her citizens cannot cure.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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The rising power of the United States in world affairs requires, not a more compliant press, but a relentless barrage of facts and criticism. Our job in this age, as I see it, is not to serve as cheerleaders for our side in the present world struggle but to help the largest possible number of people to see the realities of the changing and convulsive world in which American policy must operate.

Reston, James

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America will never run... And we will always be grateful that liberty has found such brave defenders.

George W. Bush

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America is like an unfaithful love who promises us more than we got.

Bunch, Charlotte

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The trouble with America is that there are far too many wide-open spaces surrounded by teeth.

Charles Luckman

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There are no second acts in American lives.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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The genius of the American system is that we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people.

Gramm, Phil

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The main thing that endears the United Nations to member governments, and so enables it to survive, is its proven capacity to fail. You can safely appeal to the United Nations in the comfortable certainty that it will let you down.

O'Brien, Conor Cruise

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The spirit is at home, if not entirely satisfied, in America.

Bloom, Allan

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We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of the Americans.

Askew, Ruben

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I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.

John Adams

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The superficiality of the American is the result of his hustling. It needs leisure to think things out; it needs leisure to mature. People in a hurry cannot think, cannot grow, nor can they decay. They are preserved in a state of perpetual puerility.

Hoffer, Eric

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The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, The trouble with this country is...

Lewis, Sinclair

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The interesting and inspiring thing about America is that she asks nothing for herself except what she has a right to ask for humanity itself.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Being blunt with your feelings is very American. In this big country, I can be as brash as New York, as hedonistic as Los Angeles, as sensuous as San Francisco, as brainy as Boston, as proper as Philadelphia, as brawny as Chicago, as warm as Palm Springs, as friendly as my adopted home town of Dallas, Fort Worth, and as peaceful as the inland waterway that rubs up against my former home in Virginia Beach.

Navratilova, Martina

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I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff-box from an emperor.

Byron, Lord

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I feel most at home in the United States, not because it is intrinsically a more interesting country, but because no one really belongs there any more than I do. We are all there together in its wholly excellent vacuum.

Lewis, Wyndham

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America is not merely a nation but a nation of nations.

Lyndon B. Johnson

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America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair.

Arnold Toynbee

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America is a model of force and freedom and moderation -- with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.

Byron, Lord

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What you have to do is enter the fiction of America, enter America as fiction. It is, indeed, on this fictive basis that it dominates the world.

Baudrillard, Jean

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America is a country that doesn't know where it is going but is determined to set a speed record getting there.

Laurence J. Peter

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America: It's like Britain, only with buttons.

Starr, Ringo

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This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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There is no country in the world where machinery is so lovely as in America.

Wilde, Oscar

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America and its demons, Europe and its ghost.

Le Monde

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America, thou half-brother of the world; with something good and bad of every land.

Bailey, Philip James

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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.

Jimmy Carter

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We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

Pope, Alexander

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I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the crimson light of a rising sun fresh from the burning, creative hand of God. I see great days ahead, great days possible to men and women of will and vision.

Carl Sandburg

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

Oscar Wilde

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Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people.

Walt Whitman

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America fears the unshaven legs, the unshaven men's cheeks, the aroma of perspiration, and the limp prick. Above all it fears the limp prick.

Abish, Walter

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America - a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose.

Herbert Hoover

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The business of America is business and the chief ideal of the American people is idealism.

Coolidge, Calvin

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I just want to say this. I want to say it gently but I want to say it firmly: There is a tendency for the world to say to America, "the big problems of the world are yours, you go and sort them out," and then to worry when America wants to sort them out.

Tony Blair

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Knavery seems to be so much a the striking feature of its inhabitants that it may not in the end be an evil that they will become aliens to this kingdom.

King George III