Quotes about America
379 quotes from 149 people
The President is the last person in the world to know what the people really want and think.
Rudy Giulianiborn 1944Speech before the Republican Party convention in New York. August 30, 2004.
Al Goreborn 1948Speech at the Democratic National Convention (28 August 1996).
Ulysses S. Grant1822–1885Memorandum: Reasons why Santo Domingo should be annexed to the United States (1869-1870?)Ours is the only country deliberately founded on a good idea.
Isolation is not insulation. In fact when America has isolated herself, threats have only grown.
Kamala Harrisborn 1964From a speech at the Munich Security Conference (16 February 2024), as cited in “Kamala Harris seeks to reassure allies at Munich Security Conference”, The Washington Post (16 February 2024).We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.
Benjamin Harrison1833–1901Statement of 1888, as quoted in Treasury of Presidential Quotations (1964) by Caroline T. HamsbergerIf you want to see your plays performed the way you wrote them, become President.
Václav Havel1936–2011Address to the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London quoted in The Independent, London (24 March 1990)- Václav Havel1936–2011New Year’s Address to the Nation (1991)
All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.
Ernest Hemingway1899–1961Green Hills of Africa (1935), Part I, Ch. 1
Patrick Henry1736–1799Speech in the First Continental Congress (6 September 1774), as recorded in John Adams’s notes of the debates
Christopher Hitchens1949–2011The Monarchy: A Critique of Britain’s Favourite Fetish (1990)Nobody in this country respects what’s weak. You believe me!
Jimmy Hoffa1913–1975CBC Television interview, Washington (1960)
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.1841–1935Often credited to Oliver Wendell HolmesOne flag, one land, one heart, one hand,
One Nation evermore!
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.1809–1894“Voyage of the Good Ship Union”, in The Atlantic Monthly (March 1862) pp. 398-400
