America, the land of opportunity, innovation, and diversity, has inspired countless individuals throughout history with its spirit of freedom and resilience. From the Founding Fathers to modern-day leaders, thinkers, and artists, the United States has been a source of inspiration, aspiration, and contemplation for people around the globe. Through its tumultuous history, America has produced moments of triumph and challenges, all of which have been documented in the words of its citizens.
The quotes that have emerged from the hearts and minds of Americans encapsulate the essence of the nation, reflecting its values, dreams, and struggles. Whether spoken by presidents, activists, writers, or ordinary citizens, these quotes offer insights into the American experience, resonating with people from all walks of life. As we delve into the profound words uttered about America, we gain a deeper understanding of its complex identity and the ideals that continue to shape its destiny. Below, you will find a collection of poignant, thought-provoking, and inspiring quotes on America, ready to be shared, reflected upon, or adorned with creativity.
America’s health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system. Walter Cronkite
We are America, second to none, and we own the finish line. Don’t forget it. Joe Biden
Babylon is everywhere. You have wrong and you have right. Wrong is what we call Babylon, wrong things. That is what Babylon is to me. I could have born in England, I could have born in America, it make no difference where me born, because there is Babylon everywhere. Bob Marley
America has fought five wars since 1945 and has gained its objectives in only one of them, the Gulf War. Henry Kissinger
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
The one question I would have for Donald Trump is inspired by his ‘Make America Great Again’ cap. I would ask him, ‘When was America great? When did America not have an economic depression or a war?’ Tech N9ne
If you’re thinking of coming to America, this is what it’s like: you’ve got your Comfort Inn, you’ve got your Best Western, and you’ve got your Red Lobster where you eat. Everybody’s very fat, everybody’s very stupid and everybody’s very rude – it’s not a holiday programme, it’s the truth. Jeremy Clarkson
I want to go get trade agreements because if America walls itself up, if we address sort of an economic fortress America, we will lose. Paul Ryan
I went to America to convert the Indians, but, oh, who shall convert me? Who, what, is he that will deliver me from this evil heart of unbelief? John Wesley
I’m afraid, based on my own experience, that fascism will come to America in the name of national security. Jim Garrison
Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe. Jackie Mason
Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night? Jack Kerouac
There is nothing here that’s broken that can’t be fixed, but it won’t happen on its own. It’s going to require a huge lift by the entire country of the United States of America and people on the ground taking personal responsibility for themselves. You cannot take it as a fait accompli that the city’s going to come back. Mitch Landrieu
I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro. This is a passionately racist country; it will continue to be so in the foreseeable future. Susan Sontag
It is the pride of my heart to have been one of the earliest adopted sons of America. Marquis de Lafayette
I want history to remember me… not as the first black woman to have made a bid for the presidency of the United States, but as a black woman who lived in the 20th century and who dared to be herself. I want to be remembered as a catalyst for change in America. Shirley Chisholm
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. Oscar Wilde
NBC had a show called ‘The Toughest Bouncer in America’ that I did. But I told them I didn’t like that term, ‘bouncer.’ To me, it’s offensive. A bouncer likes to get physical, likes to put his hands on people. Mr. T
In Los Angeles all the loose objects in the country were collected, as if America had been tilted and everything that wasn’t tightly screwed down had slid into Southern California. Saul Bellow
We didn’t crumble after 9/11. We didn’t falter after the Boston Marathon. But we’re America. Americans will never, ever stand down. We endure. We overcome. We own the finish line. Joe Biden
Half a century ago, the amazing courage of Rosa Parks, the visionary leadership of Martin Luther King, and the inspirational actions of the civil rights movement led politicians to write equality into the law and make real the promise of America for all her citizens. David Cameron
America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men. Alexander Graham Bell
America’s present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration. Warren G. Harding
America is a melting pot. Our diversity is our strength. Ralph Northam
Black people in America, people from the struggle, immigrants, it’s no generational wealth that we are attached to, so we are tasked to create – in one generation – closing the gap. That’s why we so Doomsday about getting to the check: ’cause it’s life or death for real. Nipsey Hussle
God bless America. God save the Queen. God defend New Zealand and thank Christ for Australia. Russell Crowe
There is not a liberal America and a conservative America – there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America – there’s the United States of America. Barack Obama
No nation, savage or civilized, save only the United States of America, has confessed its inability to protect its women save by hanging, shooting, and burning alleged offenders. Ida B. Wells
I was a devil in other countries, and I was a little devil in America, too. Josephine Baker
America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. John Quincy Adams
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
In the United States we have the great Harvard Business School, but America is the country with the greatest debt in the world. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Indeed, we’re strongest when the face of America isn’t only a soldier carrying a gun but also a diplomat negotiating peace, a Peace Corps volunteer bringing clean water to a village, or a relief worker stepping off a cargo plane as floodwaters rise. Colin Powell
What’s great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca-Cola, and you can know that the President drinks Coke. Liz Taylor drinks Coke, and just think, you can drink Coke, too. Andy Warhol
The government of the United States doesn’t want peace. It wants to exploit its system of exploitation, of pillage, of hegemony through war. It wants peace, but what’s happening in Iraq? What happened in Lebanon? Palestine? What’s happening? What’s happened over the last hundred years in Latin America and in the world? Hugo Chavez
Now, as a nation, we don’t promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea everybody should have an equal opportunity to succeed. No matter who you are, what you look like, where you come from, you can make it. That’s an essential promise of America. Where you start should not determine where you end up. Barack Obama
I bet taxpayers remember providing more than $812 billion to Citigroup and Bank of America, two Wall Street banks, in 2009 to bail them out during the 2008 financial crisis. Taxpayers remember that generosity; big banks evidently don’t. John Kennedy
I read in the newspapers they are going to have 30 minutes of intellectual stuff on television every Monday from 7:30 to 8. to educate America. They couldn’t educate America if they started at 6:30. Groucho Marx
Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country. Calvin Coolidge
The biggest difference between England and America is that England has history, while America has geography. Neil Gaiman
Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy. Margaret Thatcher
I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that’s not what America’s about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don’t contract them. Barack Obama
The fact is, with every friendship you make, and every bond of trust you establish, you are shaping the image of America projected to the rest of the world. That is so important. So when you study abroad, you’re actually helping to make America stronger. Michelle Obama
We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another. Richard M. Nixon
A nation without borders is like a house without walls – it collapses. And that is what is going to happen to our wonderful America. Jan Brewer
All great change in America begins at the dinner table. Ronald Reagan
If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America. Nelson Mandela
It took President Obama to make America lead like America again. John F. Kerry
If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future. Madeleine Albright
Some day, following the example of the United States of America, there will be a United States of Europe. George Washington
America’s health care system is in crisis precisely because we systematically neglect wellness and prevention. Tom Harkin
Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that’s it. No America, no jazz. I’ve seen people try to connect it to other countries, for instance to Africa, but it doesn’t have a damn thing to do with Africa. Art Blakey
America’s future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live. Jane Addams
America is a mistake, a giant mistake. Sigmund Freud
We’re the only species who follow unstable leaders. This is true – it has little to do with America – around the world, pack leaders are unstable. Animals don’t follow that. Cesar Millan
The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults. Alexis de Tocqueville
Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America. William Howard Taft
My parents were educated in the Turkish system and went straight from high school to medical school; my mom, who had skipped a grade, was dissecting corpses at age seventeen. Growing up in America, I think I envied my parents’ education. By comparison, everything I did in school seemed so sort of low-stakes and infantilizing. Elif Batuman
I can’t imagine there has ever been a more gratifying time or place to be alive than America in the 1950s. No country had ever known such prosperity. Bill Bryson
Laughter is America’s most important export. Walt Disney
The American dream is dead for the majority of America. Suze Orman
France, and the whole of Europe have a great culture and an amazing history. Most important thing though is that people there know how to live! In America they’ve forgotten all about it. I’m afraid that the American culture is a disaster. Johnny Depp
America is a model of force and freedom and moderation – with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people. Lord Byron
America is known as a country that welcomes people to its shores. All kinds of people. The image of the Statue of Liberty with Emma Lazarus’ famous poem. She lifts her lamp and welcomes people to the golden shore, where they will not experience prejudice because of the color of their skin, the religious faith that they follow. Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Ours is a country built more on people than on territory. The Jews will come from everywhere: from France, from Russia, from America, from Yemen… Their faith is their passport. David Ben-Gurion
But this is the great danger America faces. That we will cease to be one nation and become instead a collection of interest groups: city against suburb, region against region, individual against individual. Each seeking to satisfy private wants. Barbara Jordan
The essence of America – that which really unites us – is not ethnicity, or nationality or religion – it is an idea – and what an idea it is: That you can come from humble circumstances and do great things. Condoleezza Rice
Oh yes, there’s lots of great food in America. But the fast food is about as destructive and evil as it gets. It celebrates a mentality of sloth, convenience, and a cheerful embrace of food we know is hurting us. Anthony Bourdain
I played with Prince in 2010… the America tour. The one with Misty Copeland dancing on top of the piano! But Prince played the piano on that song. But I played two dates with him on that tour. When we played the gig, every couple of songs, Prince would change his clothes. Jon Batiste
The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive ‘policies’ and ‘Plans’ of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word ‘socialism’, but what else can one call it? H. G. Wells
I think the moral majority and religious right have been shrinking and having not quite as loud a voice in America, and all of a sudden people are coming to their own realizations going, ‘Joe down the street is gay and he’s a great guy.’ Jason Priestley
Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward! Thomas A. Edison
No alliance in history has done more to prevent war, and no alliance is more rooted in the values America champions, than NATO. Tom Malinowski
America is another name for opportunity. Ralph Waldo Emerson
By refocusing our space program on Mars for America’s future, we can restore the sense of wonder and adventure in space exploration that we knew in the summer of 1969. We won the moon race; now it’s time for us to live and work on Mars, first on its moons and then on its surface. Buzz Aldrin
I have no further use for America. I wouldn’t go back there if Jesus Christ was President. Charlie Chaplin
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
Part of the problem with America is that letting go of emotions is viewed as a weakness, but it’s my strength. That enabled me to write my songs. Melanie Martinez
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
The people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born in Africa instead of America. Put differently, the terrible fate of their ancestors benefitted them. Thomas Sowell
If I were to live my life over again, I would be an American. I would steep myself in America, I would know no other land. Henry James
It’s time for political leaders across the ideological spectrum to realize that, while partisanship is understandable, hyper-partisanship is destructive to our country. We need more visionary leaders who will earnestly strive for bipartisanship and finding policy solutions that can move America forward. Martin Luther King III
Don’t let anybody make you think God chose America as His divine messianic force to be a sort of policeman of the whole world. Martin Luther King, Jr.
There is not one single police officer in America that I am not afraid of and not one that I would trust to tell the truth or obey the laws they are sworn to uphold. I do not believe they protect me in any way. Henry Rollins
America is a country founded on guns. It’s in our DNA. It’s very strange but I feel better having a gun. I really do. I don’t feel safe, I don’t feel the house is completely safe, if I don’t have one hidden somewhere. That’s my thinking, right or wrong. Brad Pitt
A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won’t cross the street to vote in a national election. Bill Vaughan
I will keep America moving forward, always forward, for a better America, for an endless enduring dream and a thousand Points of Light. This is my mission, and I will complete it. George H. W. Bush
Anyone who has seen the auto factories in Detroit and the oil fields in Texas knows that Japan lacks the national power for a naval race with America. Isoroku Yamamoto
Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity. L. Frank Baum
America is the land of the second chance – and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life. George W. Bush
When the youth of America gets together, amazing things happen. Tom Ford
The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life. Theodore Roosevelt
The fact is Canadians understand that immigration, that people fleeing for their lives, that people wanting to build a better life for themselves and their kids is what created Canada, it’s what created North America. Justin Trudeau
America… just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable. Hunter S. Thompson
I see a bright future for Florida and for America, and my campaign will be about the ideas and principles that will help us achieve a more perfect union. Ron DeSantis
To me, what socialism means is to guarantee a basic level of dignity. It’s asserting the value of saying that the America we want and the America that we are proud of is one in which all children can access a dignified education. It’s one in which no person is too poor to have the medicines they need to live. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Jazz, to me, is one of the inherent expressions of Negro life in America: the eternal tom-tom beating in the Negro soul – the tom-tom of revolt against weariness in a white world, a world of subway trains, and work, work, work; the tom-tom of joy and laughter, and pain swallowed in a smile. Langston Hughes
When one travels around the world, one notices to what an extraordinary degree human nature is the same, whether in India or America, in Europe or Australia. Jiddu Krishnamurti
They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America? Fidel Castro
Every country is like a particular type of person. America is like a belligerent, adolescent boy; Canada is like an intelligent, 35-year-old woman. Australia is like Jack Nicholson. It comes right up to you and laughs very hard in your face in a highly threatening and engaging manner. Douglas Adams
