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America

Capital:             Washington, D.C.
Government:     Federal constitutional republic
Currency:         United States dollar
Area:                9,826,630 km2
Population:       281,421,906
Language:         English

 

 

 

America Quotes

America is a tune. It must be sung together.
- Gerald Stanley Lee

America means opportunity, freedom, power.
- Emerson

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.
- Harriet Martineau

America was the land of education and opportunity. It was a new land to which all people who had youth and a youthful mind turned.
- Claude McKay

If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.
- Abraham Lincoln

American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.
- Henry Adams

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty.
- John F. Kennedy

Of all the great national statesmen in history, Lincoln is the only giant.
- Leo Tolstoi

The history of America is now the central feature of the history of the world.
- Theodore Roosevelt

America is a land of wonders, in which everything is in constant motion and every change seems an improvement.
- Alexis de Tocqueville

 

An American Religion: Work, play, breathe, bathe, study, live, laugh, and love.
- Elbert Hubbard

Keep 'em flying!
- Anonymous

That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.
- Neil Armstrong

We Americans are the peculiar, chosen people-the Israel of our time; we bear the ark of the liberties of the world.
- Herman Melville

Every American owns all America
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

God and the politicians willing, the United States can declare peace upon the world, and win it.
- Ely Culbertson

Here's to an honest man-the noblest work of God.
- Unknown

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.
- Thomas Jefferson

It is an experiment, as all life is an experiment.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

It is my loving sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment-Independence now and Independence forever.
- Daniel Webster

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
- Woodrow Wilson

May the world's wonder be American thunder.
- Unknown

Our country, Congress, cash, and courage.
- Unknown

Remember the Alamo!
- Sidney Sherman

The cause of America is, in a great measure, the cause of all mankind.
- Thomas Paine

The flags of freedom fly all over Europe.
- Harry S. Truman

We believe we must be the family of America, recognizing that at the heart of the matter we are bound one to another.
- Mario Cuomo

We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.
- Thomas Jefferson

Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

A good photograph is knowing where to stand.
- Ansel Adams

Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
- Ansel Adams

The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.
- Ansel Adams

Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you.
- Joey Adams

Marriage is give and take. You'd better give it to her or she'll take it anyway. 
- Joey Adams

Love wishes to perpetuate itself. Love wishes for immortality.
- Mortimer Adler

Almost everybody that's well-known gets tagged with a nickname.
- Alan Alda

Be fair with others, but then keep after them until they're fair with you.
- Alan Alda

I've never tried to manipulate my image.
- Alan Alda

One of the nice things about problems is that a good many of them do not exist except in our imaginations.
-  Steve Allen

The hair is real - it's the head that's a fake.
- Steve Allen

Any sufficiently badly-written science is indistinguishable from magic.
- Aaron Allston

Violence is the first refuge of the violent. Aaron Allston

My best work is often almost unconscious and occurs ahead of my ability to understand it.
- Sam Abell

Time wounds all heels.
- Jane Sherwood Ace

I live a very real life.
- Anastacia

Email is the greatest thing.
- Wally Amos

Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity.
- Nelson Algren

Don't give advice unless you're asked.
- Amy Alcott

Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless.
- Jamie Paolinetti
Anyone who trades liberty for security deserves neither liberty nor security  Anand_Singh
- Benjamin Franklin

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death
- Albert Einstein

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.
- John C. Maxwell

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
- Edward Abbey

Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today.
-  James Dean

A goal without a plan is just a wish.
- Larry Elder

Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
- Robert Heinlein

Love wasn't put in your heart to stay. Love isn't love until you give it away.
- Michael W. Smith

Love isn't finding a perfect person. It's seeing an imperfect person perfectly.
- Sam Keen

Love is two minds without a single thought.
- Philip Barry

Journalists prize independence - not teamwork.                                                                                 - Ken Auletta

Be quick to learn and wise to know.
- George Burns

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
- George Burns

I don't believe in dying. It's been done. I'm working on a new exit. Besides, I can't die now - I'm booked.
- George Burns

 

 

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