America Quotes, Sayings about USA


America is a country of young men.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

May I never wake up from the American dream.
Carrie Latet

The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy

When good Americans die they go to Paris
Oscar Wilde

Americans play to win at all times. I wouldn’t give a hoot and hell for a man who lost and laughed. That’s why Americans have never lost nor ever lose a war.
General George S. Patton

If the terriers and bariffs are torn down, this economy will grow.
George W. Bush

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

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

God bless the USA, so large,
So friendly, and so rich.
W. H. Auden

America is God’s Crucible, the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming!
Israel Zangwill

The United States is the best and fairest and most decent nation on the face of the earth.
George Bush

America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.
Jesse Jackson

How beautiful it would be for someone who could not read.
G. K. Chesterton

America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.
Georges Clemenceau

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

It created in me a yearning for all that is wide and open and expansive. Something that will never allow me to fit in in my own country, with its narrow towns and narrow roads and narrow kindnesses and narrow reprimands.
Anthony Hopkin

The United States, I believe, are under the impression that they are twenty years in advance of this country; whilst, as a matter of actual verifiable fact, of course, they are just about six hours behind it.
Harold Hobson

New York is a small place when it comes to the part of it that wakes up just as the rest is going to bed.
P. G. Wodehouse

Nothing means anything here. When they pull down an outstanding building, no one objects. Oh, maybe there’s a wee protest from some collectors or something who take a picture of it before it vanishes.
Billy Connolly

New York…that unnatural city where every one is an exile, none more so than the American.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman

There exists in the world today a gigantic reservoir of good will toward us, the American people.
Wendell Lewis Willkie

America…is the prize amateur nation of the world. Germany is the prize professional nation.
Woodrow Wilson

Up from the meadows rich with corn,
Clear in the cool September morn,
The clustered spires of Frederick stand
Green-walled by the hills of Maryland.
John Greenleaf Whittier

This is virgin territory for whorehouses.
Al Capone

I called the New World into existence to redress the balance of the Old.
George Canning

I believe the US is a truly monstrous force in the world, now off the leash for obvious reasons.
Harold Pinter

I like to walk around Manhattan, catching glimpses of its wild life, the pigeons and cats and girls.
Rex Todhunter Stout

I found there a country with thirty-two religions and only one sauce.
Talleyrand

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.
Harriet Martineau

I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

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    When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.
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    The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.
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