Quotations About America
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Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
Gloria Steinem
New York Times, 26 August 1971
New York Times, 26 August 1971
The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.
Edward, Duke of Windsor
Look, 5 March 1957
Look, 5 March 1957
America is a tune. It must be sung together.
Gerald Stanley Lee
Crowds
Crowds
America is a passionate idea or it is nothing. America is a human brotherhood or it is chaos.
Max Lerner
Actions and Passions, 1949
Actions and Passions, 1949
America is great because it has as much diversity in geographies as it does in peoples.
Aurora Raigne
The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
If you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag; wash it.
Norman Thomas
How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.
Paul Sweeney
What the people want is very simple. They want an America as good as its promise.
Barbara Jordan
This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.
Elmer Davis
The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
Unknown
The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy.
Louis Kronenberger
America, for me, has been the pursuit and catching of happiness.
Aurora Raigne
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
This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.
Theodore Roosevelt
America is so vast that almost everything said about it is likely to be true, and the opposite is probably equally true.
James T. Farrell