America
See also:  American People, Freedom, Liberty
American Made
Only in America  
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness
Life in these United States
Made in America
In America  
From Sea to Shining Sea
God Bless the U.S.A.  
This will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave  Elmer Davis
Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore,
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me:
I lift my lamp beside the golden door.
 Emma Lazarus (inscription on the Statue of Liberty)
America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle.  We as a people have such a purpose today.  It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world.  George H.W. Bush (Inaugural Address, 1989)
Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America  Dwight D. Eisenhower
The most important lesson of American history is the promise of the unexpected.  None of our ancestors would have imagined settling way over here on this unknown continent.  So we must continue to have a society that is hospitable to the unexpected, which allows possibilities to develop beyond our own imagining.  Daniel J. Boorstin
America means opportunity, freedom, power  Ralph Waldo Emerson
America is a land of wonders, in which everything is in constant motion and every change seems an improvement.  The idea of novelty is there indissolubly connected with the idea of amelioration.  No natural boundary seems to be set to the efforts of man; and in his eyes what is not yet done is only what he has not yet attempted to do.  Alexis de Tocqueville
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 practice either of them  Mark Twain
The strength of our Nation must continue to be used in the interest of all our people rather than a priviledged few.  It must continue to be used unselfishly in the struggle for world peace and the betterment of mankind.  Harry S Truman (State of the Union, 1949)
America is a "happy-ending" nation  Dore Schary (studio executive)
The world of the 20th Century, if it is to come to life in any nobility of health and vigor, must be to a significant degree an American Century  Henry R. Luce (in 1941)
The business of America is not business.  Neither is it war.  The business of America is justice, and securing the blessings of liberty.  George F. Will
The greatest honor history can bestow is the title of peacemaker.  This honor now beckons America - the chance to help lead the world at last out of the valley of the turmoil and on to that high ground of peace that man has dreamed of since the dawn of civilization.  Richard M. Nixon (Inaugural Address, 1969)
All great change in America begins at the dinner table  Ronald Reagan
It is probably true in America that if you work hard and play by the rules you will make more money than if you don't.  But what are the rules?  Are they the rules of Moses or P.T. Barnum, of William Bennett or Willie Sutton?  Herbert Stein
With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love, asking His blessing and His help, but knowing that here on earth God's work must truly be our own  John F. Kennedy (Inaugural Address, 1961)
Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood  Jimmy Carter
The crowning growth of the United States is to be spiritual and heroic  Walt Whitman
If there be one principle more deeply rooted than any other in the mind of every American, it is, that we should have nothing to do with conquest  Thomas Jefferson
The U.S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it.  You have to catch up with it yourself.  Benjamin Franklin
America is the country where you buy a lifetime supply of aspirin for one dollar and use it up in two weeks  John Barrymore