America Sayings and Quotes
Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old america quotes, america sayings, and america proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.
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America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
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America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.
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Only in America can someone start with nothing and achieve the American Dream. That's the greatness of this country.
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America is the land of the second chance - and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.
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This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.
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America is a passionate idea or it is nothing. America is a human brotherhood or it is chaos.
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America is another name for opportunity. Our whole history appears like a last effort of divine providence on behalf of the human race.
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There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.
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We need an America with the wisdom of experience. But we must not let America grow old in spirit.
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America is a tune. It must be sung together.
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America is so vast that almost everything said about it is likely to be true, and the opposite is probably equally true.
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America is great because it has as much diversity in geographies as it does in peoples.
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America is a nation with many flaws, but hopes so vast that only the cowardly would refuse to acknowledge them.
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If you take advantage of everything America has to offer, there's nothing you can't accomplish.
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Only Americans can hurt America.
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America is the only nation in history which, miraculously, has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.
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In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
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America is much more than a geographical fact. It is a political and moral fact ? the first community in which men set out in principle to institutionalize freedom, responsible government, and human equality
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The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples.
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America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people.
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America: Where a man can say what he thinks, if he isn't afraid of his wife, his boss, his customer, his neighbors, or the government.
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America is a country that doesn't know where it is going but is determined to set a speed record getting there.
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America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair.
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America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.
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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.
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America is the best half-educated country in the world.
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The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.
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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.
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America is a young country with an old mentality.
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The business of America is not business. Neither is it war. The business of america is justice and securing the blessings of liberty.
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America, we are better than these last eight years. We are a better country than this.
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America is just downright mean.
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In America, your ancestors don't matter so much. You're just you.
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America is another name for opportunity.
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There is nothing wrong in America that can't be fixed with what is right in America.
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America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.
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I think in our desire to create a better America,we have to have civilized debate in this country and not just yelling.
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It is our duty and our privilege to keep America moving forward.
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It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.
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Regarding the fitness craze: America has lost its soul; now it's trying to save its body.
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America preaches integration and practices segregation.
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America is too great for small dreams.
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America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.
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The major fortunes in America have been made in land.
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America, thou half-brother of the world; with something good and bad of every land.
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The magic of America is that we're a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.
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America is the only idealistic nation in the world.
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America is great, because America is free.
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America is not merely a nation but a nation of nations.
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America will never run... And we will always be grateful that liberty has found such brave defenders.
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America is a great country, but you can't live in it for nothing.
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The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.
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America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense, it is the other way round. Human rights invented America.
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America forms the longest and straightest bone in the earth's skeleton.
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The freedom to be an individual is the essence of America.
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America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair.
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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
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America is a nation with many flaws, but hopes so vast that only the cowardly would refuse to acknowledge them.
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All great change in America begins at the dinner table.
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In America, anyone can become president. That's the problem.
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In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.
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United States: the country where liberty is a statue.
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There is no America without labor, and to fleece the one is to rob the other.
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The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.
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Anyone who believes the competitive spirit in America is dead has never been in a supermarket when the cashier opens another check-out line.
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The idea of America is so wonderful because the more equal something is, the more American it is
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America is a land where men govern, but women rule.
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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.
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The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.
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America is not just a country, it's an idea.
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America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
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By heritage and by choice, the United States of America will make that stand.
