78 Beautiful America Quotes and Sayings
In this post, you will find amazing American quotes and sayings.
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Short America Sayings
“America is a tune. It must be sung together.” —Gerald Stanley Lee
“America was and is the immigrant’s dream.” —Don DeLillo
“America is another name for opportunity.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
“America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.” —John Updike
“America is the only country ever founded on the printed word.” —Marshall McLuhan
“There are no second acts in American lives.” —F. Scott Fitzgerald
“America is the best half-educated country in the world.” —Nicholas Murray Butler
“America I’ve given you all and now I’m nothing.” —Allen Ginsberg
“All great change in America begins at the dinner table.” —Ronald Reagan
“We can’t all be Washingtons, but we can all be patriots.” —Charles F. Browne
“Americans usually believe that nothing is impossible.” —Lawrence Eagleburger
“While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.” —Ronald Reagan
“America is the only country ever founded on a creed.” —G.K. Chesterton
“Only Americans can hurt America.” —Dwight D. Eisenhower
“United States: the country where liberty is a statue.” —Nicanor Parra
“America is a land where men govern, but women rule.” —John Mason Brown
“God created war so that Americans would learn geography.” —Mark Twain
“America is too great for small dreams.” —Ronald Reagan
“America is hop.it is compassion.It is excellence.It is valor.” —Unknown
“America is a young country with an old mentality.” —George Santayana
“Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.” —Margaret Thatcher
“In America, anyone can become president. That’s the problem.” —George Carlin
“America is my country and Paris is my hometown.” —Gertrude Stein
“Building a better you is the first step to building a better America.” —Zig Ziglar
“The strongest weapon in the United States is a patriotic American.” —Unknown
“America is not merely a nation but a nation of nations.” —Lyndon B. Johnson
“America’s one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.” —Bobcat Goldthwait
“I believe in America. America’s made my fortune.” —Mario Puzo
America Sayings
“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.” —Abraham Lincoln
“America was founded by people who believe that God was their rock of safety. I recognize we must be cautious in claiming that God is on our side, but I think it’s all right to keep asking if we’re on His side.” —Ronald Reagan
“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. Kennedy
“We are a country where people of all backgrounds, all nations of origin, all languages, all religions, all races, can make a home. America was built by immigrants.” —Hillary Clinton
“That’s why they call it the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it.” —George Carlin
“I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty.” —John Fitzgerald Kennedy
“Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.” —Franklin D. Roosevelt
“I always like to go to Washington D.C. It gives me a chance to visit my money.” —Bob Hope
“An American may speak love with his lips; the Italian must say it with his eyes.” —Rudolph Valentino
“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
“I think in our desire to create a better America,we have to have civilized debate in this country and not just yelling.” —Craig Ferguson
“My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.” —Abraham Lincoln
“This is the story of America. Everybody’s doing what they think they’re supposed to do.” —Jack Kerouac
“We are called the nation of inventors. And we are. We could still claim that title and wear its loftiest honors if we had stopped with the first thing we ever invented, which was human liberty.” —Mark Twain
“We need an America with the wisdom of experience. But we must not let America grow old in spirit.” —Hubert H. Humphrey
“The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.” —George Washington
“I look forward to a great future for America – a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.” —John Fitzgerald Kennedy
“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
“Some day, following the example of the United States of America, there will be a United States of Europe.” —George Washington
“There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.” —Bill Clinton
“What’s right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity, intellect and resources to do some thing about them.” —Henry Ford
“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
“America will never run… And we will always be grateful that liberty has found such brave defenders.” —George W. Bush
“America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.” —Oscar Wilde
“America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.” —Alexis de Tocqueville
“America has never quite forgiven Europe for having been discovered somewhat earlier in history than itself.” —Oscar Wilde
“The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.” —Benjamin Franklin
“Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.” —Robert Orben
“You can always count on Americans to do the right thing – after they’ve tried everything else.” —Winston Churchill
“In America we were given freedom, some of us choose to honor that freedom and some of us choose to take advantage of it.” —Unknown
“America forms the longest and straightest bone in the earth’s skeleton.” —Ellsworth Huntington
“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
“America’s health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.” —Walter Cronkite
“What the people want is very simple – they want an America as good as its promise.” —Barbara Jordan
“When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.” —Sinclair Lewis
“The American flag represents all of us and all the values we hold sacred.” —Adrian Cronauer
“Only in America can someone start with nothing and achieve the American Dream. That’s the greatness of this country.” —Rafael Cruz
“America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.” —Jimmy Carter
“Yet America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
“America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.” —Oscar Wilde
“Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.” —John Dickinson
Top Ten America Sayings
Here you will find Top Ten American sayings selected by our team.
- “America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.” —Abraham Lincoln
- “America is not merely a nation but a nation of nations.” —Lyndon B. Johnson
- “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
- “God created war so that Americans would learn geography.” —Mark Twain
- “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. Kennedy
- “My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.” —Abraham Lincoln
- “This is the story of America. Everybody’s doing what they think they’re supposed to do.” —Jack Kerouac
- “America is a land where men govern, but women rule.” —John Mason Brown
- “Americans usually believe that nothing is impossible.” —Lawrence Eagleburger
- “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
