America is a young country with an old mentality.
—George Santayana
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 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
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
The business of America is not business. Neither is it war. The business of america is justice and securing the blessings of liberty.
—Gertrude Stein
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.
—Herbert Hoover
America - a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose.
—Hillary Rodham Clinton
I'm not going to quit. Why should I quit? This country is worth fighting for.
—Jack Kerouac
This is the story of America. Everybody's doing what they think they're supposed to do.
—Jeffery F. Chamberlain
In a country as big as the United States, you can find fifty examples of anything.
—Unknown
U.S. out of North America!
—Unknown
I'm in love with this country called "America." I'm a huge fan of America. I'm one of those annoying fans — you know, the ones that read the cd notes and follow you into bathrooms and ask you all kinds of annoying questions about why you didn't live up to that. I'm that kind of fan. I've read the Declaration of Independence, and I've read the Constitution of the United States, and they are some liner notes, dude.
—Bono
The melting pot failed to function in one crucial area. Religions and nationalities, however different, generally learned to live together, even to grow together, in America. But color was something else. Reds were murdered like wild animals. Yellows were characterized as a peril and incarcerated en masse during World War II for no really good reason by our most liberal president. Browns have been abused as the new slave labor on farms. The blacks, who did not come here willingly, are now, more than a century after emancipation by Lincoln, still suffering a host of slavelike inequalities.
—Theodore M. Hesburgh
In this country "American" means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
—Toni Morrison