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America Quotes by Famous Authors
1.
“America is still a frontier country of wide open spaces. Our closeness to nature is one reason why our problem is not repression but regression; our notorious violence is the constant eruption of primi-tiveness, of anarchic individualism.”
Camille Paglia
2.
“I'm very pro-American - my entire family escaped poverty in Italy because they rightly believed in the American dream.”
Camille Paglia
3.
“Except for naval and air exercises, our military should be stationed on American soil, where service men and women can lead normal lives in close proximity to family and friends.”
Camille Paglia
4.
“It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman.”
Camille Paglia
5.
“I'm worried about the future of America insofar as our academically most promising students are being funneled through the cookie-cutter Ivy League and other elite schools and emerging with this callow anti-American, anti-military cast to their thinking.”
Camille Paglia
6.
“Is there intellectual life in America? At present, the answer is no.”
Camille Paglia
7.
“I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own.”
Margaret Fuller
8.
“I think the only way that political system can be corrected is for the American people to see very vividly that it needs repair. If things are going to worse in the future, the American people, in every congressional district in the land, might demand that reforms take place in the political system.”
Jimmy Carter
9.
“It's very difficult for the American people to believe that our government, one of the richest on Earth, is also one of the stingiest on Earth.”
Jimmy Carter
10.
“What has happened at Guantanamo Bay... does not represent the will of the American people. I'm embarrassed about it, I think its wrong. I think it does give terrorists an unwarranted excuse to use the despicable means to hurt innocent people.”
Jimmy Carter
11.
“We have no desire to be the world’s policeman. But America does want to be the world’s peacemaker.”
Jimmy Carter
12.
“We only have to recall the color of the faces of those who were most devastated by Katrina, to know that there are not yet equal opportunities for all Americans.”
Jimmy Carter
13.
“We have been involved in more wars, on a bilateral basis, since the United Nations was formed than any other country by far.”
Jimmy Carter
14.
“America has no functioning democracy at this moment.”
Jimmy Carter
15.
“America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.”
Jimmy Carter
16.
“America has always been a country of innovation and dynamism, entrepreneurship. And I think that one of the things that has made our country great too is its heterogeneous population where people come here from all over the world.”
Jimmy Carter
17.
“The love of liberty is a common blood that flows in our American veins.”
Jimmy Carter
18.
“Ours was the first nation to be founded on the idea that all are created equal and all deserve equal treatment under the law. Despite our missteps and shortcomings, these ideals still inspire hope among the oppressed and give us pride in being Americans.”
Jimmy Carter
19.
“Standing alone among great democratic nations in imposing the death penalty is another moral decision that Americansare being forced to confront.”
Jimmy Carter
20.
“And so I say to you and to others around the world, whether they wish us well or ill – do not underestimate us Americans. We lack neither strength nor wisdom.”
Jimmy Carter
21.
“Quite often, the people who do leave their own nation and come to an unknown destination, like the United States, are inherently adventurous, so we’ve had that adventurous spirit that has embedded itself collectively in the American consciousness.”
Jimmy Carter
22.
“I think all Americans believe in human rights. And health is an often overlooked aspect of basic human rights. And it's one that's easily corrected.”
Jimmy Carter
23.
“I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man, that he’s African American.”
Jimmy Carter
24.
“Unfortunately, after Sept. 11, there was an outburst in America of intense suffering and patriotism, and the Bush administration was very shrewd and effective in painting anyone who disagreed with the policies as unpatriotic or even traitorous.”
Jimmy Carter
25.
“Ignorant people in preppy clothes are more dangerous to America than oil embargoes.”
V.S. Naipaul
26.
“Oh, America, how I began to love your country! What miles of silences God has made in you for contemplation! If only people realized what all your mountains and forests are really for!”
Thomas Merton
27.
“I always believed in shooting for the top, and to become an American is like becoming a member of the winning team.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger
28.
“The success I have achieved in bodybuilding, motion pictures, and business would not have been possible without the generosity of the American people and the freedom here to pursue your dreams.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger
29.
“I’ve seen firsthand coming here with empty pockets but full of dreams, full of desire, full of will to succeed, but with the opportunities that I had, I could make it. This is why we have to get back and bring California back to where it once was.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger
30.
“No matter the nationality, no matter the religion, no matter the ethnic background, America brings out the best in people.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger
31.
“As you know, I'm an immigrant. I came over here as an immigrant, and what gave me the opportunities, what made me to be here today, is the open arms of Americans. I have been received. I have been adopted by America.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger
32.
“I believe with all my heart that America remains ‘the great idea’ that inspires the world. It is a privilege to be born here. It is an honor to become a citizen here. It is a gift to raise your family here, to vote here, and to live here.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger
33.
“Everything that I’ve accomplished in life was because of America and because of California, so I should take seven years out of my life to be a public servant and to serve the people of California regardless of the lack of pay.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger
34.
“Everything I have, my career, my success, my family, I owe to America.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger
35.
“In America, communities existed before governments. There were many groups of people with a common sense of purpose and a feeling of duty to one another before there were political institutions.”
Daniel J. Boorstin
36.
“American civilization, from its beginnings, had combined a dogmatic confidence in the future with a naive puzzlement over what the future might bring.”
Daniel J. Boorstin
37.
“Much of what we have been doing to improve the world’s opinion of us has had the contrary effect. Audio-visual aids which we have sent over the world are primary aids to the belief in the irrelevance, the arrogance, the rigidity, and the conceit of America. Not because they are poorly made. On the contrary, because they are well made and vividly projected. Not because they are favorable images or unfavorable images, but because they are images.”
Daniel J. Boorstin
38.
“The institutional scene in which American man has developed has lacked that accumulation from intervening stages which has been so dominant a feature of the European landscape.”
Daniel J. Boorstin
39.
“Jeffersonian isolationism expressed an essentially cosmopolitan spirit. The Jeffersonian was determined – even at the expense of separating himself from the rest of the globe, and even though he be charged with provincial selfishness – to preserve America as an uncontaminated laboratory.”
Daniel J. Boorstin
40.
“As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin America, has been abandoned. We have fallen in love with our own image, with images of our making, which turn out to be images of ourselves.”
Daniel J. Boorstin
41.
“Until now when we have started to talk about the uniqueness of America we have almost always ended by comparing ourselves to Europe. Toward her we have felt all the attraction and repulsions of Oedipus.”
Daniel J. Boorstin
42.
“When I was living in England I found that the more I lived abroad, the more American I discovered I was.”
Daniel J. Boorstin
43.
“The most important American addition to the World Experience was the simple surprising fact of America. We have helped prepare mankind for all its later surprises.”
Daniel J. Boorstin
44.
“History had been man’s effort to accommodate himself to what he could not do. American history in the 20th century would, more than ever before, test man’s ability to accommodate himself to all the new things he could do.”
Daniel J. Boorstin
45.
“Within the soul of America is freedom of mind and spirit in man. Here alone are the open windows through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit. Here alone is human dignity not a dream but an accomplishment. Perhaps it is not perfect, but it is more full in realization here than any other place in the world.”
Herbert Hoover
46.
“Next to religion, baseball has had a greater impact on our American way of life than any other American institution.”
Herbert Hoover
47.
“The opportunities of America opened out to me the public schools. They carried me to the professional training of an American university. I began by working with my own hands for my daily bread.”
Herbert Hoover
48.
“America means far more than a continent bounded by two oceans. It is more than pride of military power, glory in war, or in victory. It means more than vast expanse of farms, of great factories or mines, magnificent cities, or millions of automobiles and radios.”
Herbert Hoover
49.
“True American Liberalism utterly denies the whole creed of socialism.”
Herbert Hoover
50.
“Absolute freedom of the press to discuss public questions is a foundation stone of American liberty.”
Herbert Hoover
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