Quotes about The United States of America (Page 2)

When I take a knee, I am facing the flag with my full body, staring straight into the heart of our country's ultimate symbol of freedom - because I believe it is my responsibility, just as it is yours, to ensure that freedom is afforded to everyone in this country.

Americans love our freedom and no one will ever take it away from us.

There's something really beautiful about people from all different walks of life... who are bound together by this big idea about American identity and American unity and American interests.

The American flag, Old Glory, standing tall and flying free over American soil for 228 years is the symbol of our beloved country. It is recognized from near and afar, and many lives have been lost defending it.

In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy.

America doesn't hand you things on a silver platter. Sometimes all she offers is hope.

I can think of nothing more American than to peacefully stand up or take a knee for your rights - anytime, anywhere, anyplace.

The truth is the Super Bowl long ago became more than just a football game. It's part of our culture like turkey at Thanksgiving and lights at Christmas, and like those holidays beyond their meaning, a factor in our economy.

Some day, following the example of the United States of America, there will be a United States of Europe.

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.

We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.

We don't want an America that is closed to the world. What we want is a world that is open to America.

I think America would do anything through a drive-through.

This is not a dictatorship. This is America. Give me liberty, or give me meth.

It is time to remember that old wisdom our soldiers will never forget: that whether we are black or brown or white, we all bleed the same red blood of patriots, we all enjoy the same glorious freedoms, and we all salute the same great American Flag.

America, to me, is freedom.

Ladies and gentlemen, God bless America - land of the free, home of the brave.

In her own good land here she's been abused
She's been burned, dishonored, denied an' refused
And the government for which she stands
Has scandalized throughout the land
And she's getting thread bare, and she's wearin' thin
But she's in good shape, for the shape she's in
Cause she's been through the fire before
And I believe she can take a whole lot more

Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve.

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

America is the land of the second chance - and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.

We are a country where people of all backgrounds, all nations of origin, all languages, all religions, all races, can make a home. America was built by immigrants.

Every country is like a particular type of person. America is like a belligerent, adolescent boy; Canada is like an intelligent, 35-year-old woman. Australia is like Jack Nicholson. It comes right up to you and laughs very hard in your face in a highly threatening and engaging manner.

If your neighbor has a completely different view on abortion, gay marriage, stem cell research, all of those things, you still are both Americans. Neither one of you is necessarily more patriotic than the other. Neither loves their country any more than the other one does.

You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.

Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.

My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.

This country is worth dying for.

America is the country that gave you Star Wars, you're welcome. And scientology, we're sorry about that. Sometimes what's great and terrible about us is just impossible to seperate.

I am known for my sense of irony but even I would not have come to think of putting a Statue of Liberty into the New York Harbour.

The Bible is the rock on which this Republic rests.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

You are a big country. You are the kindest country in the world. You are like a really nice apartment over a meth lab.

There are things in American culture that want to wipe the class distinction. Blue jeans. Ready-made clothes. Coca-Cola.

The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.

Put an Englishman into the garden of Eden, and he would find fault with the whole blasted concern;
put a Yankee in, and he would see where he could alter it to advantage;
put an Irishman in, and he would want to boss the thing;
put a Dutchman in, and he would proceed to plant it.

My fellow Americans, we are made for this moment, and we will seize it - so long as we seize it together.

After aircraft production, the entertainment industry is America's largest source of trade surplus.

I want to nominate a man, who's cool on the outside, but who burns for America on the inside.

The injuries we have received from the British nation were so unprovoked, and have been so great and so many, that they can never be forgotten.

What's at stake are not Democratic values or Republican values, but American values. We have to reclaim them.

Think about the America within our reach:
A country that leads the world in educating its people.
An America that attracts a new generation of high-tech manufacturing and high-paying jobs.
A future where we're in control of our own energy, and our security and prosperity aren't so tied to unstable parts of the world.
An economy built to last, where hard work pays off, and responsibility is rewarded.

This American system of ours... call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you like, gives to each and every one of us a great opportunity if we only seize it with both hands and make the most of it.

Let the word go forth... that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans.

I have no further use for America. I wouldn't go back there if Jesus Christ was President.

We remember the Americans who put country above self, and set personal grievances aside for the greater good. We remember the Americans who held this country together during its most difficult hours; who put aside pride and party to form a more perfect union.

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing Government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.

Its been a long time coming, but tonight, because of what we did on this day, in this election, at this defining moment, change has come to America.

America can't do this alone.

And I will do everything that I can as long as I am President of the United States to remind the American people that we are one nation under God, and we may call that God different names but we remain one nation.