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We are fighting to save a great and precious form of government for ourselves and for the world. - Franklin Delano Roosevelt We must be the great arsenal of democracy. - Franklin Delano Roosevelt, in a "Fireside Chat" radio broadcast on December 29, 1940 We have room but for one Language here and that is the English Language, for we intend to see that the crucible turns our people out as Americans of American nationality and not as dwellers in a polyglot boarding-house. - Theodore Roosevelt America is a young country with an old mentality. - George Santayana Great Britain and the United States are nations separated by a common language. - attributed to George Bernard Shaw, but not found in his writings My country, 'tis of thee, Sweet land of liberty, Of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died! Land of the Pilgrims' pride! From ev'ry mountainside, Let freedom ring! - Rev. Samuel Francis Smith, America, first stanza of song also known as My Country 'Tis of Thee In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book? or goes to an American play? or looks at an American picture or statue? - Sydney Smith, Works--America (vol. II) America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people. - Gloria Steinem England, our mother's mother! Come, and see A greater England here! O come and be At home with us, your children, for there runs The same blood in our veins as in your sons; The same deep-seated love of liberty Beats in our hearts. We speak the same good tongue; Familiar with all songs your bards have sung, Those large men, Milton, Shakespeare, both are ours. - Richard Henry Stoddard God hath sifted a nation that he might send choice grain into this wilderness. - William Stoughton, in a sermon in Boston, Apr. 29, 1669 The home of the homeless all over the earth. - Alfred Billings Street America has begun her career at the culminating point of life, as Adam did at the age of thirty. - Madame Anne Sophie Swetchine (Soimonoff) Gigantic daughter of the West We drink to thee across the flood. . . . For art not thou of English blood? - Lord Alfred Tennyson, Hands all Round, in the London "Examiner", 1862, and the "London Times", 1880 America, my friends, is the only country in the world actually founded on liberty--the only one. People went to America to be free. - Margaret Thatcher It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practise either of them. - Mark Twain (pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens), Following the Equator (ch. 20) America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy. - John Updike So it's home again, and home again, America for me! My heart is turning home again, and I long to be In the land of youth and freedom beyond the ocean bars, Where the air is full of sunshine, and the flag is full of stars. - Henry Jackson van Dyke (2), America for Me We must consult Brother Jonathon. - George Washington, in reference to his secretary and Aide-de-camp, Col. Jonathon Trumbull America has been discovered before, but it has always been hushed up. - Oscar Wilde (Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde) America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. - Oscar Wilde (Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde) The youth of America is their tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years. - Oscar Wilde (Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde), A Woman of No Importance (act I) America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand. - Thomas Woodrow Wilson America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses. - Thomas Woodrow Wilson Just what is it that America stands for? If she stands for one thing more than another, it is for the sovereignty of self-governing people, and her example, her assistance, her encouragement, has thrilled two continents in this western world with all those fine impulses which have built up human liberty on sides of the water. She stands, therefore, as an example of independence, as an example of free institutions, and as an example of disinterested international action in the main tenets of justice. - Thomas Woodrow Wilson, in a speech at Pittsburgh Some Americans need hyphens in their names, because only part of them has come over; but when the whole man has come over, heart and thought and all, the hyphen drops of its own weight out of his name. - Thomas Woodrow Wilson, in an address unveiling the Statue to the Memory of Commodore John Bar Displaying page 3 of 4 for this topic: << Prev Next >> 1 2 [3] 4
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