Famous Quotes about America – Short Quotes about America

Famous Quotes about America

  • “America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.” —Oscar Wilde
  • “If you take advantage of everything America has to offer, there’s nothing you can’t accomplish.” —Geraldine Ferraro
  • “America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.” —Oscar Wilde
  • “In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.” —Barack Obama
  • “There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.” —Bill Clinton
  • “There is nothing wrong in America that can’t be fixed with what is right in America.” —Bill Clinton
  • “It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.” —Mark Twain
  • “Regarding the fitness craze: America has lost its soul; now it’s trying to save its body.” —George Carlin
  • “The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.” —D.H. Lawrence
  • “In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.” —Peter Alexander Ustinov
  • “America is a passionate idea or it is nothing. America is a human brotherhood or it is chaos.” —Max Lerner
  • “America will never run… And we will always be grateful that liberty has found such brave defenders.” —George W. Bush
  • “This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.” —Elmer Davis
  • “We need an America with the wisdom of experience. But we must not let America grow old in spirit.” —Hubert H. Humphrey
  • “America is so vast that almost everything said about it is likely to be true, and the opposite is probably equally true.”
  • “America is a nation with many flaws, but hopes so vast that only the cowardly would refuse to acknowledge them.” —James Michener
  • “America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair.” —Arnold Toynbee
  • “I think in our desire to create a better America, we have to have civilized debate in this country and not just yelling.”
  • “America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense, it is the other way round. Human rights invented America.” —Jimmy Carter
  • “America is a nation with many flaws, but hopes so vast that only the cowardly would refuse to acknowledge them.” —William J. Clinton
  • “America is the only nation in history which, miraculously, has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.” —Georges Clemenceau
  • “America is a country that doesn’t know where it is going but is determined to set a speed record getting there.” —Laurence J. Peter
  • “America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair.” —Arnold Toynbee
  • “The magic of America is that we’re a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.” —Madeleine Albright
  • “America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.” —Harry S Truman
  • “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.”
  • “America is another name for opportunity. Our whole history appears like a last effort of divine providence on behalf of the human race.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • “The business of America is not business. Neither is it war. The business of America is justice and securing the blessings of liberty.” —George F. Will
  • “America: Where a man can say what he thinks, if he isn’t afraid of his wife, his boss, his customer, his neighbors, or the government.” —Joe Moore
  • “America is therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the World’s History shall reveal itself.” —Georg W. Hegel
  • “America is much more than a geographical fact. It is a political and moral fact? The first community in which men set out in principle to institutionalize freedom, responsible government, and human equality.” —Adlai Stevenson
  • “America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn’t standing still.” —E. E. Cummings

Churchill Quotes About America

  • “Americans will always do the right thing – aftevsr exhausting all the alternatives.” —Winston Churchill
  • You can always count on Americans to do the right thing – after they’ve tried everything else.” —Winston Churchill
  • Americans will always do the right thing, only after they have tried everything else.” ―Winston Churchill
  • It’s that backhanded compliment to America that’s especially popular among politicians on this side of the Atlantic.” —Winston Churchill
  • Our exclusive first look at the diaries of King George VI reveals the Prime Minister’s secret hostility to the United States.” —Winston Churchill
  • “You can always count on the Americans to do the right thing, after they have exhausted all the other possibilities.”― Winston Churchill

Funny Quotes about America

  • “In America, anyone can become president. That’s the problem.” —George Carlin
  • “American rock has a sort of self-pitying whine to it.” —Bill Bailey
  • “I used to be Irish Catholic. Now I’m an American — you know, you grow.” —George Carlin
  • “The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other in opposite directions.” —George Carlin
  • “The reason they call it the American Dream is because you have to be asleep to believe it.” —George Carlin
  • “We Americans, we’re a simple people . . . but piss us off, and we’ll bomb your cities.” —Robin Williams
  • “Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies.” —Woody Allen
  • “When you’re born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you’re born in America, you get a front-row seat.” —George Carlin
  • “Sorry – Americans only buy things that come from suffering. They just enjoy it more when they know someone’s getting hurt.” —Louis C.K.
  • “Makeup’s just crazy, anyways. Native Americans used to wear it, and it did all right for them until, uh … well, until you killed them all, I suppose.” —Eddie Izzard
  • “I am proud to be an American. Because an American can eat anything on the face of this earth as long as he has two pieces of bread.” —Bill Cosby
  • “America is like the really bad flat mate of the world: ‘Oh sorry, did I break all your shit? I don’t know it was yours. Yeah, I’ll replace it sometime… with my stuff.’” —Dylan Moran

Abraham Lincoln Quotes About America

  • “All that harms labor is treason to America.” —Abraham Lincoln
  • “I see a very dark cloud on America’s horizon, and that cloud is coming from Rome.” —Abraham Lincoln
  • “I am the president of the United States of America, clothed in immense power! You will procure me those votes!” – Abraham Lincoln
  • “America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.” —Abraham Lincoln
  • “My dreams is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.” —Abraham Lincoln
  • “Let us remember that all American citizens are brothers of a common country, and should dwell together in the bonds of fraternal feeling.” —Abraham Lincoln
  • “The people of these United States are the rightful masters of both congresses and courts. Not to overthrow the constitution. But to overthrow the men who pervert the constitution.” —Abraham Lincoln
  • “Standing as I do, with my hand upon this staff, and under the folds of the American flag, I ask you to stand by me so long as I stand by it.” —Abraham Lincoln

Famous Presidential Quotes About America

  • “Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease.” —Jimmy Carter
  • “99% of failures come from people who make excuses.” —George Washington
  • “Leave nothing for tomorrow which can be done today.” —Abraham Lincoln
  • “Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.” —Calvin Coolidge
  • “Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.” —Ulysses S. Grant
  • “The only thing we have to fear is…fear itself.” —Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • “Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.” —John F. Kennedy
  • “The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation.” —William McKinley
  • “No nation is fit to sit in judgment upon any other nation.” —Woodrow Wilson
  • “We must teach our children to resolve their conflicts with words, not weapons.” —Bill Clinton
  • “Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.” —Thomas Jefferson
  • “A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits.” —Richard Nixon
  • “It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn’t.” —Martin Van Buren
  • “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” —Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • “Don’t write so that you can be understood; write so that you can’t be misunderstood.” —William H. Taft
  • “It’s amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.” —Harry S. Truman
  • “One of the tests of the civilization of people is the treatment of its criminals.” —Rutherford B. Hayes
  • “Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time.” —Barack Obama
  • “I don’t know much about Americanism, but it’s a damn good word with which to carry an election.” —Warren G. Harding
  • “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” —John Quincy Adams
  • “Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.” —Abraham Lincoln
  • “When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were—to the very last minute—a chance to lose it.” —Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • “It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. In this life, we get nothing save by effort.” —Theodore Roosevelt
  • “Never be satisfied with less than your very best effort. If you strive for the top and miss, you’ll still ‘beat the pack.’” —Gerald R. Ford
  • “There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.” —William Henry Harrison
  • “Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.” —John F. Kennedy
  • “Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.” —Andrew Jackson
  • “Have you not learned that not stocks or bonds or stately houses, or products of the mill or field are our country? It is a spiritual thought that is in our minds.” —Benjamin Harrison
  • “By leadership we mean the art of getting someone else to do something that you want done because he wants to do it, not because your position of power can compel him to do it.” —Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • “For this is what America is all about It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the star that is not reached and the harvest that is sleeping in the unplowed ground.” —Lyndon B. Johnson
  • “If you live long enough, you’ll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you’ll be a better person. It’s how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit.” —William J. Clinton

Short Quotes About America

  • “America is just downright mean.” —Michelle Obama
  • “Only Americans can hurt America.” —Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • “America preaches integration and practices segregation.” —Malcolm X
  • “America is another name for opportunity.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • “America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.” —John Updike
  • “America is a young country with an old mentality.” —George Santayana
  • “America is the only idealistic nation in the world.” —Woodrow Wilson
  • “In America, anyone can become president. That’s the problem.” —George Carlin
  • “America is a tune. It must be sung together.” —Gerald Stanley Lee
  • “America is the best half-educated country in the world.” —Nicholas Murray Butler
  • “In America, your ancestors don’t matter so much. You’re just you.” —Lensey Namioka
  • “The major fortunes in America have been made in land.” —John D. Rockefeller
  • “America forms the longest and straightest bone in the earth’s skeleton.” —Ellsworth Huntington
  • “It is our duty and our privilege to keep America moving forward.” —Bill Frist
  • “America, thou half-brother of the world; with something good and bad of every land.”
  • “America is not merely a nation but a nation of nations.” —Lyndon B. Johnson
  • “The freedom to be an individual is the essence of America.” —Marilyn vos Savant
  • “The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.” —Frank Zappa
  • “America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people.” —Gloria Steinem
  • “America, we are better than these last eight years. We are a better country than this.”

Quotes About Equality In America

  • “Freedom is people realizing they are their own leader.” —Diane Nash
  • “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” —Alice Walker
  • “When you resort to violence to prove a point, you’ve just experienced a profound failure of imagination.” —Sherman Alexie
  • “Segregation is that which is forced upon an inferior by a superior. Separation is done voluntarily by two equals.—Malcolm X
  • “I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.” —Rosa Parks
  • “Democracy is a method of realizing the broadest measure of justice to all human beings; only by putting power in the hands of each inhabitant can we hope to approximate in the ultimate use of that power the greatest good to the greatest number.” —W.E.B. Du Bois
  • “I feel that every young Negro must make his personal contribution toward the accomplishment of his freedom. No one man can fight alone. You can’t confine the struggle for human freedom and dignity to one place or to one man. To free the right arm and cut the left arm off—this is not progress.” —James H. Meredith
  • “The battle is in our hands. And we can answer with creative nonviolence the call to higher ground to which the new directions of our struggle summons us. The road ahead is not altogether a smooth one. There are no broad highways that lead us easily and inevitably to quick solutions. But we must keep going.” —Martin Luther King Jr.,
  • “Every American citizen must have an equal right to vote. There is no reason which can excuse the denial of that right. There is no duty which weighs more heavily on us than the duty we have to ensure that right. It is wrong—deadly wrong—to deny any of your fellow Americans the right to vote in this country. There is no issue of states rights or national rights. There is only the struggle for human rights.” —President Lyndon B. Johnson

Great Quotes About America

  • “America is too great for small dreams.” —Ronald Reagan
  • “America is great, because America is free.” —Dan Quayle
  • “All great change in America begins at the dinner table.” —Ronald Reagan
  • “America is a great country, but you can’t live in it for nothing.” —Will Rogers
  • “America—a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose.” —Herbert Hoover
  • “All great change in America begins at the dinner table.” —Ronald Reagan
  • “The legacy of heroes—the memory of a great name, and the inheritance of a great example.” —Benjamin Disraeli
  • “I believe in America because we have great dreams, and because we have the opportunity to make those dreams come true.” —Wendell Willkie
  • “The essence of America—that which really unites us—is not ethnicity, or nationality or religion—it is an idea—and what an idea it is: That you can come from humble circumstances and do great things.” —Condoleezza Rice
  • “America is great because it has as much diversity in geographies as it does in peoples.” —Aurora Raigne
  • “Only in America can someone start with nothing and achieve the American Dream. That’s the greatness of this country.” —Rafael Cruz
  • “America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.” —Alexis de Tocqueville
  • “The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples.” —Walter Lippman

Quotes about Democracy in America

  • “It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.” —Winston Churchill
  • “Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.” —H. L. Mencken
  • “Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.” —Alexander Hamilton
  • “Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.” —Aristotle
  • “Voting is completely important. People in America think democracy is a given. I think of it as an ecosystem, and what gets in the way of it is politicians and apathy.” —Henry Rollins

America Quotes about Freedom

  • “Freedom is from within.” —Frank Lloyd Wright
  • “Freedom is something that dies unless it’s used.” —Hunter S. Thompson
  • “If you’re not ready to die for it, put the word ‘freedom’ out of your vocabulary.” —Malcolm X
  • “The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.” —Thornton Wilder
  • “If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.” —George Washington
  • “I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free… so other people would be also free.” —Rosa Parks
  • “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” —Thomas Jefferson
  • “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.” —Ronald Reagan
  • “The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can’t have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I’d rather not be in a cage. I’d rather be dead. And it’s real simple. And I think it’s not that uncommon.” —Angelina Jolie

Patriotic Quotes about America

  • “The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.” —Frederick Douglass
  • “Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.” —Adlai Stevenson
  • “I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.” —Bob Dylan
  • “Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.” —John F. Kennedy
  • “Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.” —James Bryce
  • “May the sun in his course visit no land more free, more happy, more lovely than this our own country!” —Daniel Webster
  • “This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.” —Elmer Davis
  • “Those who won our independence believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.” —Louis D. Brandeis
  • “Duty, honor, country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.” —Gen. Douglas MacArthur
  • “May we think of freedom, not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is right.” —Peter Marshall
  • “We will stand by the right, we will stand by the true, we will live, we will die for the red, white, and blue.” —Unknown
  • “America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination, and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.” —Harry S. Truman
  • “We’re blessed with the opportunity to stand for something—for liberty and freedom and fairness. And these are things worth fighting for, worth devoting our lives to.” —Ronald Reagan
  • “I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.” —Theodore Roosevelt
  • “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 the success of liberty.” —John F. Kennedy
  • “I believe our flag is more than just cloth and ink. It is a universally recognized symbol that stands for liberty, and freedom. It is the history of our nation, and it’s marked by the blood of those who died defending it.” —John Thune

Short Patriotic Quotes about America

  • “Freedom lies in being bold.” —Robert Frost
  • “America, to me, is freedom.” —Willie Nelson
  • “America is another name for opportunity.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • “Where liberty dwells, there is my country.” —Benjamin Franklin
  • “My patriotic heart beats red, white, and blue.” —Unknown
  • “I think patriotism is like charity—it begins at home.” —Henry James
  • “Dreams can grow wild born inside an American child.” —Phil Vassar
  • “Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.” —Albert Camus
  • “Liberty is the breath of life to nations.” —George Bernard Shaw
  • “I love my freedom. I love my America.” —Jessi Lane Adams
  • “America is a tune. It must be sung together.” —Gerald Stanley Lee
  • “America without her soldiers would be like God without his angels.” —Claudia Pemberton
  • “May we never forget our fallen comrades. Freedom isn’t free.” —Sgt. Major Bill Paxton
  • “One flag, one land, one heart, one hand, one nation evermore!” —Oliver Wendell Holmes
  • “In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.” —Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • “Freedom is one of the deepest and noblest aspirations of the human spirit.” —Ronald Reagan
  • “In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.” —Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • “In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.” —Barack Obama
  • “We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.” —William Faulkner
  • “It’s better to fight for something in life than to die for nothing.” —Gen. George S. Patton