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Over the years, the United States has sent many of its fine young men and women into great peril to fight for freedom beyond our borders. The only amount of land we have ever asked for in return is enough to bury those that did not return.
Colin Powell1937–2021
The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.
John F. Kennedy1917–1963Cuban Missile Crisis speech
Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions.
Daniel Webster1782–1852
- Government
I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
Thomas Jefferson1743–1826Letter to Thomas Cooper (29 November 1802)
- Government
Americans learn only from catastrophe and not from experience.
Theodore Roosevelt1858–1919
- Experience
It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union… Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less.
Susan B. Anthony1820–1906
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
Henry Kissinger1923–2023
I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem-and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?
Dwight D. Eisenhower1890–1969
America is the first country to have gone from barbarism to decadence without the usual intervening period of civilization.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Canterville Ghost (1887). For history and analysis of the quote see “Common Language”, oscarwildeinamerica.org (retrieved 9 May 2026)
The flames kindled on the Fourth of July, 1776, have spread over too much of the globe to be extinguished by the feeble engines of despotism; on the contrary, they will consume these engines and all who work them.
Thomas Jefferson1743–1826Letter to John Adams (12 September 1821)
The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure.
George Washington1732–1799
- War & Peace
I deplore the need or the use of troops anywhere to get American citizens to obey the orders of constituted courts.
Dwight D. Eisenhower1890–1969
- War & Peace
In this country we have no place for hyphenated Americans.
Theodore Roosevelt1858–1919
Our flag is red, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbow⁠—red, yellow, brown, black and white⁠—and we’re all precious in God’s sight.
Jesse Jackson1941–2026