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It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.
- Mark Twain, US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910)

The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.
- Frank Zappa, US musician, singer, & songwriter (1940 - 1993)

There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence and energy of her citizens cannot cure.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th president of US 1953-1961 (1890 - 1969)

America is a young country with an old mentality.
- George Santayana, US (Spanish-born) philosopher (1863 - 1952)

England and America are two countries separated by a common language.
- George Bernard Shaw, Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950)

Just what is it that America stands for? If she stands for one thing more than another it is for the sovereignty of self-governing people.
- Woodrow Wilson, 28th president of US (1856 - 1924)

America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses.
- Woodrow Wilson, 28th president of US (1856 - 1924)

What a pity, when Christopher Colombus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.
- Margot Asquith

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
- Oscar Wilde, Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900)

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
- Oscar Wilde, Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900)

America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.
- Oscar Wilde, Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900)

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

America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
- Bobcat Goldthwaite

There are three social classes in America: upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class.
- Judith Martin

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, US educator & writer (1919 - 1988)

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, US biographer & poet (1878 - 1967)

In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. That is what makes America what it is.
- Gertrude Stein, US author in France (1874 - 1946)

All great change in America begins at the dinner table.
- Ronald Reagan, 40th president of US (1911 - 2004)

CP America is a mistake, a giant mistake.
- Sigmund Freud, Austrian psychologist (1856 - 1939)

Intellectually, I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
- Sinclair Lewis, US novelist (1885 - 1951)

CP In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.
- Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., US diplomat & Democratic politician (1900 - 1965)

There is a New America every morning when we wake up. It is upon us whether we will it or not.
- Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., US diplomat & Democratic politician (1900 - 1965)

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, US diplomat & politician (1735 - 1826)

There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.
- Bill Clinton, 42nd president of the United States (1946 - )

America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.
- John Updike, US author (1932 - )

Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people.
- Walt Whitman, US poet (1819 - 1892)

The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.
- Walt Whitman, US poet (1819 - 1892)

America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair.
- Arnold Toynbee, English historian & historical philosopher (1889 - 1975)

America is therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the World's History shall reveal itself.
- Georg W. Hegel, German philosopher (1770 - 1831)

America is not merely a nation but a nation of nations.
- Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th president of US (1908 - 1973)

By heritage and by choice, the United States of America will make that stand.
- George W. Bush, 43rd President of US (1946 - )

America has never been an empire. We may be the only great power in history that had the chance, and refused – preferring greatness to power and justice to glory.
- George W. Bush, 43rd President of US (1946 - )

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, 43rd President of US (1946 - )

America will never run... And we will always be grateful that liberty has found such brave defenders.
- George W. Bush, 43rd President of US (1946 - )

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, US diplomat & Democratic politician (1924 - )

CP This is the story of America. Everybody's doing what they think they're supposed to do.
- Jack Kerouac, US novelist (1922 - 1969)

Europe will never be like America. Europe is a product of history. America is a product of philosophy.
- Margaret Thatcher, British politician (1925 - )

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.
- Margaret Thatcher, British politician (1925 - )

America's greatest strength, and its greatest weakness, is our belief in second chances, our belief that we can always start over, that things can be made better.
- Anthony Walton

America - a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose.
- Herbert Hoover, US mining engineer & politician (1874 - 1964)

America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered.
- Louis D. Brandeis, US jurist (1856 - 1941)

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, British politician (1953 - )

I don't measure America by its achievement but by its potential.
- Shirley Chisholm, US politician (1924 - 2005)

America is the greatest, freest and most decent society in existence. It is an oasis of goodness in a desert of cynicism and barbarism. This country, once an experiment unique in the world, is now the last best hope for the world.
- Dinesh D'Souza

What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them.
- Henry Ford II, US automobile manufacturer (1917 - 1987)

I believe America's best days are ahead of us because I believe that the future belongs to freedom, not to fear.
- John Kerry, US Democratic politician (1943 - )

There's the country of America, which you have to defend, but there's also the idea of America. America is more than just a country, it's an idea. An idea that's supposed to be contagious.
- Bono, Irish lead singer of U2 (1960 - )

CP In a country as big as the United States, you can find fifty examples of anything.
- Jeffery F. Chamberlain