1. America without her soldiers would be like God without his angels.

- Claudia Pemberton

2. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.

- O. Henry, Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen

3. Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.

- Ronald Reagan

4. You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut.

- Maxwell Maltz

5. We on this continent should never forget that men first crossed the Atlantic not to find soil for their ploughs but to secure liberty for their souls.

- Robert J. McCracken

6. America is a land of opportunity, and don’t ever forget it.

- Will Rogers

7. 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

8. The magic of America is that we’re a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.

- Madeleine Albright

9. Americans in unity, and unity in Americans!

- Every Body’s Toast Book and Convivial Companion, 1

10. In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

11. America loves a forgiveness story. America is the land of second chances.

- Michael Caputo

12. Go with your first thoughts; they’re usually your best thoughts. Pay attention, stick to your goals and follow those guidelines. It’s all right there if you reach for it, unless you want to punch timeclocks and work for somebody. That’s what we liked about America, the land of opportunity. All your dreams can come true.

- Richard Danko

13. Where liberty dwells, there is my country.

- Benjamin Franklin

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

- Elmer Davis

15. True patriotism springs from a belief in the dignity of the individual, freedom and equality not only for Americans but for all people on Earth.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

16. We’re blessed with the opportunity to stand for something – for liberty and freedom and fairness. And these are things worth fighting for, worth devoting our lives to.

- Ronald Reagan

17. America is a passionate idea or it is nothing. America is a human brotherhood or it is chaos.

- Max Lerner

18. A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

19. What we need are critical lovers of America — patriots who express their faith in their country by working to improve it.

- Hubert Humphrey

20. The Constitution only guarantees you the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

- Benjamin Franklin

21. You know, that diversity that America has is so special. It’s starting to really become a cool thing for young people.

- Russell Simmons

22. When I was growing up, I don’t remember being told that America was created so that everyone could get rich. I remember being told it was about opportunity and the pursuit of happiness. Not happiness itself, but the pursuit.

- Martin Scorsese

23. Americans always try to do the right thing after they’ve tried everything else.

- Winston Churchill

24. I had always hoped that this land might become a safe and agreeable asylum to the virtuous and persecuted part of mankind, to whatever nation they might belong.

- George Washington

25. Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

26. May the sun in his course visit no land more free, more happy, more lovely than this our own country!

- Daniel Webster

27. One characteristic of Americans is that they have no tolerance at all of anybody putting up with anything. We believe that whatever is going wrong ought to be fixed.

- Margaret Mead

28. The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples.

- Walter Lippman

29. If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.

- John F. Kennedy

30. Dreams can grow wild born inside an American child.

- Phil Vassar

31. You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world…. We are not a nation, so much as a world.

- Herman Melville

32. The diversity of America is a strength of the country, and I don’t think that we use that. We don’t talk about our strengths. I mean, having so many diverse people in this country from all aspects of all over the world, and we don’t use that. I think we should talk about who we are – that melting pot that we’ve become.

- Steve Stoute

33. What is the essence of America? Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom “to” and freedom “from.”

- Marilyn vos Savant

34. If you take advantage of everything America has to offer, there’s nothing you can’t accomplish.

- Geraldine Ferraro

35. Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty

- John F. Kennedy

36. The winds that blow through the wide sky in these mounts, the winds that sweep from Canada to Mexico, from the Pacific to the Atlantic — have always blown on free men.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

37. America has as much diversity in peoples as it does in geographies.

- Terri Guillemets

38. Ultimately, America’s answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.

- Robert Kennedy

39. 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

40. What does the Flag mean? It is the flag just as much of the man who was naturalized yesterday as of the man whose people have been here generations.

- Henry Cabot Lodge

41. Basically, there are two kinds of stereotypes out there in the world about America. There’s America the Goliath – the big, powerful, bullying country that pushes its way around the world and gets its ways, pursues its own interests nakedly, irrespective of what others want. And the other stereotype is America, the land of opportunity, where everyone can go and do anything, be anything, make any dreams come true.

- Shashi Tharoor

42. One flag, one land, one heart, one hand, one nation evermore!

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

43. America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn’t standing still.

- E.E. Cummings

44. Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.

- John F. Kennedy

45. Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

- Albert Camus

46. Liberty is the breath of life to nations.

- George Bernard Shaw

47. America is not just a country, but a way of life.

- Anonymous

48. The land of opportunity. You just need the right people and the right work ethic and you can accomplish anything.

- Bob Poser

49. Every American carries in his bloodstream the heritage of the malcontent and the dreamer.

- Dorothy Fuldheim

50. Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

- Oscar Wilde

51. Those who won our independence believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.

- Louis D. Brendeis

52. There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong.

- G. K. Chesterton

53. My folks came to U.S. as immigrants, aliens, and became citizens. I was born in Boston, a citizen, went to Hollywood and became an alien.

- Leonard Nimoy

54. Diversity of thought and culture and religion and ideas has become the strength of America.

- Gary Locke

55. We will stand by the right, we will stand by the true, we will live, we will die for the red, white, and blue.

- Anonymous

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

- Abraham Lincoln

57. The fact is: It’s true what they say about the United States. It is a land of opportunity. It is too various to get bored with it.

- Christopher Hitchens

58. There will always be a frontier where there is an open mind and a willing hand.

- Charles Kettering

59. We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

- Thomas Jefferson

60. Oh, it’s home again and home again, America for me! I want a ship that’s westward bound to plough the rolling sea, To the blessed land of Room Enough beyond the ocean bars, Where the air is full of sunlight and the flag is full of stars.

- Henry Van Dyke

61. If you’re worried about getting a job-or keeping one-start a company of your own. By doing so, you’ll reap the rewards of your hard work and you’ll only get fired if you fail. This is the land of opportunity. Live in it.

- Bruce Campbell

62. When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies glistening in the sun, the wide and rising plains, the great mountains, and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self-respect.

- Adlai Stevenson

63. America is still the land of opportunity for most, but it is not a land of opportunity for all. If we are to remain an exceptional nation, we must close this gap in opportunity.

- Marco Rubio

64. If you’re not ready to die for it, put the word ‘freedom’ out of your vocabulary.

- Malcolm X

65. Ours is the only country deliberately founded on a good idea.

- John Gunther

66. We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.

- William Faulkner

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

- Bobcat Goldthwaite

68. America is the only country ever founded on the printed word.

- Marshall McLuhan

69. A simple way to take measure of a country is to look at how many want in… And how many want out.

- Tony Blair

70. Freedom lies in being bold.

- Robert Frost

71. America stands for the land of opportunity.

- Michael Grimm

72. We’re Americans, with a capital A… You know what that means? Do ya? That means that our forefathers were kicked out of every decent country in the world. We are the wretched refuse. We’re the underdog. We’re mutts!… But there’s no animal that’s more faithful, that’s more loyal, more loveable than the mutt.

- Len Blum, Dan Goldberg, and Harold Ramis “Stripes”

73. Only Americans can hurt America.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower