America Quotes

"I am America. I am the part you won’t recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me." "America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success." "This is America. We all do better when we all do well" "America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between." "Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be for the world an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society" "America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense, it is the other way around. Human rights invented America." "You know all men and women are created equal. End of quote. We’ve never lived up to it. Jefferson never lived up to it, he held slaves. Women were excluded" "America is a country of inventors and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men" "America’s character is on the ballot" "We need a leader who understands that the number one job of a president is to bring Americans together" "We have to show the world America remains a beacon of hope, progress, and possibility" "I too am America" "Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America" "When fascism comes to America, it will not be in brown and black shirts. It will not be with jackboots. It will be Nike sneakers and Smiley shirts" "America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population agriculture and the arts " "In America, it is traditional to destroy the black body—it is heritage." "In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope." "The biggest difference between England and America is that England has history, while America has geography" "I am America, and so can you." "The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind"