America Quotes, Sayings about USA

Words of wisdom about a person’s home and country are usually patriotic. They are most often expressions of pride and love for the nation. This is certainly true of America quotes, which is a general term used to refer to the United States of America. People around the world refer to the U.S. as America, though this word is also part of title South American, Central America and North America. This part of the world is often referred to as the “Americas.”

But in some cases, people refer to America in something other than patriotic terms. This often comes from nations around the world who have had a less-than-satisfactory relationship with the country also known as the United States. In either case, thousands of words have been spoken and written about America. Statements have come from presidents such as Abraham Lincoln and John Kennedy, from authors and newspaper columnists, and from songwriters, including the man who penned a song called “America the Beautiful.”

History records that Samuel Francis Smith is responsible for the song. You may also find references to lyrics written by Katherine Lee Bates and the melody by Samuel F. Ward. Whatever the true story about the tune, the nation called America is one of the most talked about parts of the world. Here are some interesting thoughts to consider.

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The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.
Author: King Edward VIII.

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America is a young country with an old mentality.
Author: George Santayana.

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America’s one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
Author: Bobcat Goldthwaite.

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Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihood – the virtues that made America. The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.
Author: Theodore Roosevelt.

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Just what is it that America stands for? If she stands for one thing more than another it is for the sovereignty of self-governing people.
Author: Woodrow Wilson.

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In a country as big as the United States, you can find fifty examples of anything.
Author: Jeffery F. Chamberlain.

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Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
Author: Oscar Wilde.

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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
Author: Oscar Wilde.

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By heritage and by choice, the United States of America will make that stand.
Author: George W. Bush.

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In America any boy may become President and I suppose it’s just one of the risks he takes.
Author: Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence and energy of her citizens cannot cure.
Author: Dwight D. Eisenhower.

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America has not led but fled on the issue of global warming.
Author: Senator John Kerry.

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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.
Author: Georg W. Hegel

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America will never run.. And we will always be grateful that liberty has found such brave defenders.
Author: George W. Bush.

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In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. That is what makes America what it is.
Author: Gertrude Stein.