Thoughts of America Quotes Or USA Quotes in English With Images

Thought of the day America

England and America are two countries separated by a common language.

- George Bernard Shaw Thoughts

The diversity of America is a strength of the country, and I don’t think that we use that. We don’t talk about our strengths. I mean, having so many diverse people in this country from all aspects of all over the world, and we don’t use that. I think we should talk about who we are - that melting pot that we’ve become.

- Steve Stoute

We’re blessed with the opportunity to stand for something—for liberty and freedom and fairness. And these are things worth fighting for, worth devoting our lives to.

- Ronald Reagan

Ultimately, America’s answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.

- Robert Kennedy

The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples.

- Walter Lippman

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

Our America 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

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

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

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

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty

- John F. Kennedy

When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies glistening in the sun, the wide and rising plains, the great mountains, and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self-respect.

- Adlai Stevenson

America Sayings in English

America is the only country ever founded on the printed word.

- Marshall McLuhan

America is the only country ever founded on the printed word.

- Marshall McLuhan Quotation

One flag, one land, one heart, one hand, one nation evermore!

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

One flag, one land, one heart, one hand, one nation evermore!

- A Quotation From Oliver Wendell Holmes

Liberty is the breath of life to nations.

- George Bernard Shaw

Liberty is the breath of life to nations.

- America Quotes by George Bernard Shaw

Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.

- John F. Kennedy

Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.

- John F. Kennedy

If you take advantage of everything America has to offer, there’s nothing you can’t accomplish.

- Geraldine Ferraro

If you take advantage of everything America has to offer, there’s nothing you can’t accomplish.

- Geraldine Ferraro

A simple way to take measure of a country is to look at how many want in.. And how many want out.

- Tony Blair

A simple way to take measure of a country is to look at how many want in.. And how many want out.

- Tony Blair

May the sun in his course visit no land more free, more happy, more lovely than this our own country!

- Daniel Webster

May the sun in his course visit no land more free, more happy, more lovely than this our own country!

- America Quotes by Daniel Webster

America has as much diversity in peoples as it does in geographies.

- Terri Guillemets

If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.

- John F. Kennedy

Freedom lies in being bold.

- Robert Frost

Where liberty dwells, there is my country.

- Benjamin Franklin

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

- Albert Camus

The Constitution only guarantees you the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

- Benjamin Franklin

We will stand by the right, we will stand by the true, we will live, we will die for the red, white, and blue.

- Anonymous

Diversity of thought and culture and religion and ideas has become the strength of America.

- Gary Locke

The magic of America is that we’re a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.

- Madeleine Albright

America without her soldiers would be like God without his angels.

- Claudia Pemberton

America is not just a country, but a way of life.

- Anonymous

There will always be a frontier where there is an open mind and a willing hand.

- Charles Kettering

Dreams can grow wild born inside an American child.

- Phil Vassar

This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.

- Elmer Davis

This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.

- Theodore Roosevelt

We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.

- William Faulkner

America stands for the land of opportunity.

- Michael Grimm

Those who won our independence believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.

- Louis D. Brendeis

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

- Oscar Wilde

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

- Lyndon B. Johnson

The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.

- Frank Zappa

All great change in America begins at the dinner table.

- Ronald Regan

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

- Margaret Thatcher

It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.

- Mark Twain

America is a mistake, a giant mistake.

- Sigmund Freud

America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.

- Oscar Wilde

What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.

- Margot Asquith

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

- Oscar Wilde Sayings

Europe will never be like America.  Europe is a product of history.  America is product of philosophy.

- Margaret Thatcher

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

- Oscar Wilde

I don't measure America by its achievement but by its potential.

- Shirley Chisholm

Intellectually, I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.

- Sinclair Lewis

America Thoughts in English

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.

- George W. Hegel

England and America are two countries separated by a common language.

- George Bernard Shaw *

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

America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.

- John Updike

America has never been united by blood or birth or soil.  We are abound 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

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

- George W. Bush

By heritage and by choice, the United States of America will make that stand.

- George W. Bush

In the United States there is more space were nobody is then where anybody is. That is what makes America what it is.

- Gertrude Stein

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

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

- Walt Whitman

What's right about America is that although we have mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them.

- Henry Ford II

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

- Herbert Hoover

This is the story of America.  Everybody's doing what they think they're supposed to do.

- Jack Kerouac

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

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

- Judith Martin

The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.

- King Edward VIII

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

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

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

- John Kerry

In a country as big as the United States, you can find fifty examples of anything.

- Jeffery F. Chamberlain

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

- John Gunther

The land of opportunity. You just need the right people and the right work ethic and you can accomplish anything.

Bob Poser

You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut.

- Maxwell Maltz

You know, that diversity that America has is so special. It’s starting to really become a cool thing for young people.

Russell Simmons

If you’re not ready to die for it, put the word ‘freedom’ out of your vocabulary.

Malcolm X

In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.

- America Quote by Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

There is a New America every morning when we wakeup.  It is upon us whether we will it or not.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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.

- America Thoughts by Anthony Walton

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

- Arnold Toynbee

There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.

- Bill Clinton

Americans always try to do the right thing after they’ve tried everything else.

- Winston Churchill

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

- Bobcat Goldthwaite

America Quotes List

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

America is a young country with an old mentality.

- George Santayana

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

Charles Luckman

America is the greatest, freest and most decent society in existence.  It is an oasis of goodness in a desert of cynicism the world, is now the last best hope for the world.

Dinesh D'Souza

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

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Only Americans can hurt America.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

America’s one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.

Bobcat Goldthwaite Download or Share

Every American carries in his bloodstream the heritage of the malcontent and the dreamer.

- Dorothy Fuldheim Download or Share

America is a passionate idea or it is nothing. America is a human brotherhood or it is chaos.

- America Quotes by Max Lerner Download or Share

USA Sayings in English

True patriotism springs from a belief in the dignity of the individual, freedom and equality not only for Americans but for all people on Earth.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world…. We are not a nation, so much as a world.

- Herman Melville

What we need are critical lovers of America - patriots who express their faith in their country by working to improve it.

- Hubert Humphrey

My folks came to U.S. as immigrants, aliens, and became citizens. I was born in Boston, a citizen, went to Hollywood and became an alien.

- Leonard Nimoy

We on this continent should never forget that men first crossed the Atlantic not to find soil for their ploughs but to secure liberty for their souls.

- Robert J. McCracken

What does the Flag mean? It is the flag just as much of the man who was naturalized yesterday as of the man whose people have been here generations.

- Henry Cabot Lodge

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

- Abraham Lincoln

What is the essence of America? Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom to and freedom from.

- Marilyn vos Savant

Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.

- Franklin D Roosevelt

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

- Harry S. Truman

I had always hoped that this land might become a safe and agreeable asylum to the virtuous and persecuted part of mankind, to whatever nation they might belong.

- George Washington

The winds that blow through the wide sky in these mounts, the winds that sweep from Canada to Mexico, from the Pacific to the Atlantic - have always blown on free men.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

If you’re worried about getting a job-or keeping one-start a company of your own. By doing so, you’ll reap the rewards of your hard work and you’ll only get fired if you fail. This is the land of opportunity. Live in it.

- Bruce Campbell

Oh, it’s home again and home again, America for me! I want a ship that’s westward bound to plough the rolling sea, To the blessed land of Room Enough beyond the ocean bars, Where the air is full of sunlight and the flag is full of stars.

- Henry Van Dyke

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

- Thomas Jefferson

Go with your first thoughts; they’re usually your best thoughts. Pay attention, stick to your goals and follow those guidelines. It’s all right there if you reach for it, unless you want to punch timeclocks and work for somebody. That’s what we liked about America, the land of opportunity. All your dreams can come true.

- Richard Danko

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.

- Ronald Reagan

There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong.

- G.K. Chesterton

America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn’t standing still.

- E.E. Cummings

America is still the land of opportunity for most, but it is not a land of opportunity for all. If we are to remain an exceptional nation, we must close this gap in opportunity.

- Marco Rubio

When I was growing up, I don’t remember being told that America was created so that everyone could get rich. I remember being told it was about opportunity and the pursuit of happiness. Not happiness itself, but the pursuit.

- Martin Scorsese

One characteristic of Americans is that they have no tolerance at all of anybody putting up with anything. We believe that whatever is going wrong ought to be fixed.

- Margaret Mead