American Quotes

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Our country--whether bounded by the St. John's and the Sabine, or however otherwise bounded or described, and be the measurements more or less;--still our country, to be cherished in all our hearts, and to be defended by all our hands.
~ Robert C Winthrop
Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land!
~ Walter Scott
The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make us wonder at the possibility that there may be something to them [which] we are missing.
~ Nasser, Gamel
I called the New World into existence to redress the balance of the Old.
~ George Canning
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.
~ Timothy Dwight
Iraq is an unjust war.
~ Jimmy Carter
Where liberty is, there is my country
~ Algernon Sidney
We join ourselves to no party that does not carry the flag and I keep step to the music of the Union.
~ Rufus Choate
Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
~ Sinclair Lewis
They know no country, own no lord, Their home the camp, their law the sword.
~ Silvio Pellico