America Quotes - page 8

If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America. They don't care for human beings. (Nelson Mandela)
God has opened many doors of opportunity throughout my lifetime, but I believe the greatest of those doors was allowing me to be born in the United States of America. View quote
Ben Carson
Education is a fundamental principle of what made America a success. We can't afford to throw any young people away. View quote
Ben Carson
America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success. View quote
Sigmund Freud
I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose. View quote
John F. Kennedy
There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure. View quote
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion. View quote
Dwight D. Eisenhower
I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized. View quote
Manuel Puig
I certainly can't speak for all cultures or all societies, but it's clear that in America, poetry serves a very marginal purpose. It's not part of the cultural mainstream. View quote
Mark Strand
I think America and Britain have a different culture from France. They discovered marketing and consumerism before France. View quote
Pierre Dukan
In America, Jefferson noted with approval, women knew their place. (Stephen Ambrose)
I hope America can also be the cultural leader of the world, and use this frontier spirit to lead and show others that we need courage to go places where we have not gone before. View quote
Tadao Ando
You always want to try to make something new, and, of course, America is the world leader in economics today. View quote
Tadao Ando
There has not been a war in South America for fifty years, and I have every confidence that the countries of Central and South America are deeply in earnest in the maintenance of peace. View quote
Frank B. Kellogg
The first condition of success for the League of Nations is, therefore, a firm understanding between the British Empire and the United States of America and France and Italy that there will be no competitive building up of fleets or armies between them. View quote
Arthur Henderson
Voices were heard from the United States of America which made it clear that America wanted a peaceful and united Europe as a basis for mutual cooperation. View quote
Gustav Stresemann
In a few hundred years you have achieved in America what it took thousands of years to achieve in Europe. View quote
David McCallum
When I ran across America, for 75 days I ate 10,000 calories a day. I still lost about five pounds. View quote
Dean Karnazes
In America uniformed cops eat in coffee shops, diners and restaurants and I always feel safer having them around. View quote
Elizabeth Hurley
I, too, sing America. I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen When company comes, But I laugh, And eat well, And grow strong. View quote
Langston Hughes
Let America be America again. Let it be the dream it used to be. (Langston Hughes)
Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed - Let it be that great strong land of love Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme That any man be crushed by one above. View quote
Langston Hughes
O, yes, I say it plain, America never was America to me, And yet I swear this oath - America will be! View quote
Langston Hughes
Out of the rack and ruin of our gangster death, The rape and rot of graft, and stealth, and lies, We, the people, must redeem The land, the mines, the plants, the rivers, The mountains and the endless plain - All, all the stretch of these great green states - And make America again! View quote
Langston Hughes
I wish America would stop judging and criticizing teens and instead, try to understand the battles they have to fight every day. View quote
Laurie Halse Anderson