America Quotes and Sayings

The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.

America is a tune. It must be sung together.
- Gerald Stanley Lee

America’s one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.

I love America more than any other country in this world; and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.
- James Baldwin

What the people want is very simple. They want an America as good as its promise.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

America is great because it has as much diversity in geographies as it does in peoples.
- Aurora Raigne

In America any boy may become President and I suppose it’s just one of the risks he takes.

I love America more than any other country in this world; and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.

Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
- Sinclair Lewis

There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.

The United States is the only country with a known birthday.

England and America are two countries separated by the same language.

This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.
- Elmer Davis

To me, being an American means feeling safe.

Only Americans can hurt America.

Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.
- Robert Orben

If anyone attempts to hall down the American flag shoot him on the spot.

In America, with all its evils and faults, you can still reach through the forest and see the sun. But we do not know yet whether the sun is rising or setting for our country.

What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.

America is a young country with an old mentality.

In a country as big as the United States, you can find fifty examples of anything.

Not merely a nation but a nation of nations.
- Lyndon B. Johnson

May I never wake up from the American dream.
- Carrie Latet

When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white man came, an Indian said simply, “Ours.”