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United States: Encyclopedia Article
This article is for quotes about the United States of America, also known as the USA and the U.S.By Americans- "Ours is the only country deliberately founded on a good idea."
- "Where liberty dwells, there is my country."
- "If you take advantage of everything America has to offer, there’s nothing you can’t accomplish."
- "Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world. "
- "This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave."
- "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."
- "Without Jefferson the new nation might have lost its soul. Without Hamilton it would assuredly have been killed in body.""
- James Truslow Adams, Jeffersonian Principles and Hamiltonian Principles p. xvii.
- "It’s pathetic. It really is pathetic. It’s sad. We’re living in the dark ages in America"
- "Patriotism is easy to understand in America; it means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country."
- "I came to America because of the great, great freedom which I heard existed in this country. I made a mistake in selecting America as a land of freedom, a mistake I cannot repair in the balance of my lifetime"
- "Our country! In her with foreign nations, may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong!"
- "America, the country where the vast majority of the pathetically stupid, embarrassingly white, and disgustingly rich men live"
- "Our citizenship in the United States is our national character. Our citizenship in any particular state is only our local distinction. By the latter we are known at home, by the former to the world. Our great title is AMERICANS…"
- "We are now finally no better than a backwater banana republic"
- "I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."
- "Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves"
- "Sure I wave the American flag. Do you know a better flag to wave? Sure I love my country with all her faults. I'm not ashamed of that, never have been, never will be."
- "I shall know but one country. The ends I aim at shall be my country’s, my God’s and Truth’s. I was born an American; I live an American; I shall die an American."
- "Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihood -- the virtues that made America."
- "There are two Americas. One is the America of Lincoln and Adlai Stevenson; the other is the America of Teddy Roosevelt and the modern superpatriots. One is generous and humane, the other narrowly egotistical; one is self-critical, the other self-righteous; one is sensible, the other romantic; one is good-humored, the other solemn; one is inquiring, the other pontificating; one is moderate, the other filled with passionate intensity; one is judicious and the other arrogant in the use of great power."
- "we are now in a budding police state formerly known as the US of A"
- "Whoever is fortunate enough to be an American citizen came into the greatest inheritance man has ever enjoyed. He has had the benefit of every heroic and intellectual effort men have made for many thousands of years, realized at last. If Americans should now turn back, submit again to slavery, it would be a betrayal so base the human race might better perish."
- "The character of our enemies testifies to America's greatness."
- "The trouble with these people is that their cities have never been bombed and their mothers have never been told to shut up."
- "We do not consider ourselves threatening. Puzzled when vilified, we assume our accusers must be demented."
- "Other countries may boast of this and that, but nobody can touch the United States for poisonous snakes. We have about twenty species, most of them deadly, and Europe has only five or six, none of them much good. We have fifteen kinds of Rattlesnakes alone and nobody else has even one." [Footnote: "There is a specie and South America, but it probably came from here."]
- "Blood that has soaked into the sands of a beach is all of one color. America stands unique in the world: the only country not founded on race but on a way, an ideal. Not in spite of but because of our polyglot background, we have had all the strength in the world. That is the American way."
- Ronald Reagan on August 10, 1988, while signing the Bill Providing Restitution for the Wartime Internment of Japanese-American Civilians, quoting himself at the funeral of Kazuo Masuda in December 1945
"http://history.wisc.edu/archdeacon/404tja/redress.html" Lover her or hate her, we can still bring shock and awe all over the world. By non-Americans- "Our every action is a battle cry against imperialism, and a battle hymn for the people's unity against the great enemy of mankind: the United States of America"
- "The U.S. doesn't care for human beings"
- "While envisaging the destruction of imperialism, it is necessary to identify its head, which is no other than the United States of America"
- "I believe the United States is a truly monstrous force in the world"
- "The United States is now a country against its own people and against the people of the world. It is anti-democratic"
- "the nightmare of American hysteria, ignorance, arrogance, stupidity and belligerence"
- "America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilisation in between"
- "The United States of America is a threat to world peace"
- "I put to you that the United States is without doubt the greatest show on the road. Brutal, indifferent, scornful and ruthless"
- "I see growing on the horizon the greater peril than Germany or Japan ever were...our terrible enemy, America..."
- "We thank God that our enemies are idiots"
- "There is no doubt that the United States now feels that they are the only superpower in the world and they can do what they like"
- "The U.S. is really beyond reason now. It is beyond our imagining to know what they are going to do next and what they are prepared to do. There is only one comparison: Nazi Germany"
- "There is only one possible route of action, Greenhouse gases have to be radically reduced and it has to happen worldwide. Until now, the US has kept its eyes shut to this emergency. make up a mere 4 percent of the population, but are responsible for close to a quarter of emissions."
- "The gigantic North American State, with the enormous resources of its virgin soil, is much more invulnerable than the encircled German Reich. Should a day come when the die which will finally decide the destinies of the nations will have to be cast in that country, England would be doomed if she stood alone."
- Adolf Hitler, From Mein Kampf is the signature work of Adolf Hitler [i], combining elements of autobiography [i] with ...
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- "One nation that manages to lower intelligence, morality, human quality on nearly all the surface of the earth, such a thing has never been seen before in the existence of the planet. I accuse the United States of being in a permanent state of crime against humankind"
... - "Americans of all ages, all stations of life, and all types of disposition are forever forming associations...In democratic countries knowledge of how to combine is the mother of all other forms of knowledge; on its progress depends that of all the others."
- "The people reign in the American political world as the Deity does in the universe. They are the cause and the aim of all things; everything comes from them, and everything is absorbed in them."
- Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America
- "In the United States the sovereign authority is religious, and consequently hypocrisy must be common; but there is no country in the world where the Christian religion retains a greater influence over the souls of men than in America; and there can be no greater proof of its utility and of its conformity to human nature than that its influence is powerfully felt over the most enlightened and free nation of the earth."
- Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America
- "The crimes of the United States have been systematic, constant, vicious, remorseless"
- "What is 'USA'? It sounds fatal"
- Tico Alpha Quadrant: Cepheus
- "You can be sure the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination."
- "I've got nothing against any individual American, except that there aren't any. They're always Irish-American, African-American - there's never an American-American you can blame!"
See also - American benevolence
- American imperialism
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