I love America more than any other country in this world; and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually. – James Baldwin
America is so vast that almost everything said about it is likely to be true, and the opposite is probably equally true. – James T. Farrell
What the people want is very simple. They want an America as good as its promise. – Barbara Jordan
America, for me, has been the pursuit and catching of happiness. – Aurora Raigne
America is great because it has as much diversity in geographies as it does in peoples. – Aurora Raigne
America is a nation with many flaws, but hopes so vast that only the cowardly would refuse to acknowledge them. – James Michener
We cannot reform the world…. Uncle Sugar is as dangerous a role for us to play as Uncle Shylock. – John F. Kennedy
Only Americans can hurt America. – Dwight D. Eisenhower
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. – Abraham Lincoln
Not merely a nation but a nation of nations. – Lyndon B. Johnson
Very little is known about the War of 1812 because the Americans lost it. – Eric Nicol
America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization. – Georges Clemenceau
The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples. – Walter Lippman
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from. – Peter Alexander Ustinov
If America ever passes out as a great nation, we ought to put on our tombstone: America died from a delusion she had Moral Leadership. – Will Rogers
America is the only country ever founded on the printed word. – Marshall McLuhan
We Americans have no commission from God to police the world. – Benjamin Harrison, address to Congress, 1888
The pilgrims were kicked out of England, quarreled with the Dutch, alienated the Indians, and had an evil reputation among the turkeys. – Dave Beard
America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people. – Gloria Steinem
The trouble with America is that there are far too many wide-open spaces surrounded by teeth. – Charles Luckman
