Quotes about America
379 quotes from 149 people
Theodore Roosevelt1858–1919Chicago, IL (17 June 1912)I can be President of the United States, or I can control Alice. I cannot possibly do both.
Theodore Roosevelt1858–1919Response when a dignitary asked if he could better control his daughter, as quoted in Hail to the Chiefs : My Life and Times with Six Presidents (1970) by Ruth Shick Montgomery, and TIME magazine (3 March 1980)The President is merely the most important among a large number of public servants.
Theodore Roosevelt1858–1919Kansas City Star (7 May 1918)We are all Americans. Our common interests are as broad as the continent.
Arundhati Royborn 1961Come September (29 Sep 2002)The Republic is a dream.
Nothing happens unless first a dream.
Carl Sandburg1878–1967“Washington Monument by Night” in Slabs of the Sunburnt West (1922)Remember always that the cause of the United States is the cause of human nature.
William H. Seward1801–1872Letter to Charles F. Adams (1863), as quoted in Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Volume 2, p. 150.I will not accept if nominated, and will not serve if elected.
William Tecumseh Sherman1820–1891Telegram sent to General Henderson in 1884, refusing to run in the United States presidential election of that year. As quoted in Sherman’s Memoirs, 4th ed. 1891The American People will take Socialism, but they won’t take the label.
Upton Sinclair1878–1968Letter to Norman Thomas (25 September 1951)
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
