United States Quotes
United States Quote of the day
There is one thing that has disappeared, not just from the U.S. but from the entire world, is the idea of ever being embarrassed by anything.
I have a map of the United States... Actual size. It says, 'Scale: 1 mile = 1 mile.' I spent last summer folding it. I hardly ever unroll it. People ask me where I live, and I say, 'E6.
The United States always seems to have a way of playing the international cop of the world.
But the truth is that I never had to search for a role model. I was the son of George Bush.
The land flourished because it was fed from so many sources--because it was nourished by so many cultures and traditions and peoples.
Empower yourselves with a good education, then get out there and use that education to build a country worthy of your boundless promise.
When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that the door is closing and that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.
I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities- a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.
When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening foreign entity, it ignores the fact that, in our democracy, government is us.
The terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States - and war is what they got.
Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
May we think of freedom not as the right to do as we please but as the opportunity to do what is right.
No genuine revolutionary challenge to either the State or Capitalism in the United States can fail to ignore racism's importance in maintaining the current system.
Mistakes from our collective past are like any other: they require intervention--a remedy--to correct. They don't erase themselves over time.
Washington was no politician as we understand the word, " replied Ratcliffe abruptly. "He stood outside of politics. The thing couldn't be done today. The people don't like that sort of royal airs.
The United States is democratic because its people live in conformity. It is the perfect country for mice.
...the freedom to bear arms may be righteously rejected to encourage the preservation of all corporeal forms of life.
As a Republic governed through the utilization of a democratic process, elections are necessary in order to give every United States citizen a voice in the governing of this great nation.
It's a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA.
When you turn a blind eye to atrocities, you are complicit in them.
Thus, Dr. Curry's claims that much of the fanfare and propaganda we now attribute to the Hitler Youth and the Nuremberg rallies actually originated with American customs, are definitely sound.
We know enough to know that all of this is not quite right. And we know enough to know that settling for what’s not quite right is quite wrong.
With the single exception of the American Revolution, the aftermath of all revolutions from 1789 on only worsened the human condition.
I would rather have 10, 000 stories than 10, 000 in my bank account @myhumancompass Roy ('Backpack') Baron author of Looking Glass Shattered.
In the United States, people don't revolt in order to obtain freedom, but continue denying it to others.
Following religious principles because you fear the consequences isn't faith…. It’s superstition.
The Second Amendment is timeless for our Founders grasped that self-defense is three-fold: every free individual must protect themselves against the evil will of the man, the mob and the state.
Two hundred years after Euro-Americans "discovered" it, America's river west begins and ends at pollution.
The USA is a beautiful country...when you take the corrupt corporations and their government minions out of the equation.
The seriousness of being part of Operation Desert Storm-the first major foreign crisis for the United States after the end of the Cold War- was never lost upon us.
How dismal it is to see present day Americans yearning for the very orthodoxy that their country was founded to escape.
Failing to indict a criminal sitting president sends the message that those in power are above the law.
All my life I’ve lived a beautiful lie. The governor’s son with the bright future set for him. The middle child. The one who no one knew how bad he was suffering until it made the nightly news.
Everyone should have health insurance? I say everyone should have health care. I'm not selling insurance.
The arrogance and brutality of empire are not repealed when they temporarily get deployed in a just cause.
A cause that only serves me is much like a door on the edge of a cliff, it doesn’t open to anywhere good.
To celebrate freedom and democracy while forgetting American's origins in a slavery economy is patriotism à la carte.
