Quotes about America
379 quotes from 149 people
Frederick Douglass1817–1895“The Destiny of Colored Americans”, The North Star (16 November 1849)
Calvin Coolidge1872–1933The Press Under a Free Government (1925)All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.
Ernest Hemingway1899–1961Green Hills of Africa (1935), Part I, Ch. 1I have not one drop of blood in my veins but what is American.
John Adams1735–1826To an ambassador (1785), as quoted in The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: Autobiography (1851), by Charles F. Adams, p. 392.No prior president has ever abased himself more abjectly before a tyrant.
John McCain1936–2018Official statement: “SASC Chairman John Mccain on Trump-Putin Meeting” (16 July 2018)It’s called the American Dream, ‘cause you have to be asleep to believe it.
George Carlin1937–2008Life Is Worth Losing (2005), “Dumb Americans”The President is merely the most important among a large number of public servants.
Theodore Roosevelt1858–1919Kansas City Star (7 May 1918)If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on Earth.
Ronald Reagan1911–2004A Time for Choosing (1964)
George Washington1732–1799General Orders, New York (2 July 1776)- Ronald Reagan1911–2004While signing the Bill Providing Restitution for the Wartime Internment of Japanese-American Civilians, quoting himself at the funeral of Kazuo Masuda in December 1945 (10 August 1988)
Sydney Smith1771–1845Referring to the lack of established culture and the established institution of slavery in the United States, in “Review of Seybert’s Annals of the United States”, The Edinburgh Review (1820), pp. 79-80
