America Quotes - Page 7

Hundreds would die, but not the thing they died for.

When did a free country start to mean free enterprise? Who sold Democracy out for a golden calf we got to idolize?

America has a unique type of slavery that looks like freedom.

When the vision of the U.S. government included guarding the rights of people but staying out of their way, America was an economic engine more powerful than anything the world had ever witnessed.

I am an aristocrat," Virginian John Randolph would explain decades after the American Revolution. "I love liberty; I hate equality.

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth

Brave Americans in past wars didn't die for the actual flag-they died for the freedom it represents, including the freedom to burn it.

Both David Koresh and Timothy McVeigh fell in the fight for freedom, the right of the Americans to be left alone.

Nothing will ruin the country if the people themselves will undertake its safety; and nothing can save it if they leave that safety in any hands but their own.

Labor in the white skin can never free itself as long as labor in the black skin is branded.

A freedom given up is not so easily regained.

Wonderful?" wrote J.O. Young in his diary. "To stand cheering, crying, waving your hat and acting like a damn fool in general. No one who has spent all but 16 days of the this war as a Nip prisoner can really know what it means to see 'Old Sammy' buzzing around over camp.

America: It's like Britain, only with buttons.

لقد كنت في اسفل سافلين في قاع المجتمع الامريكي وعندما اهتديت الى الله والى الاسلام تغير %D

After all, this is America, and you can swap out the parts of yourself that don't work. You can rebuild yourself piece by piece.

Creativity is key to productivity and prosperity.

I know there was a time, when our country was new, when the assignment of these numbers helped organize something that was on the brink of not existing. But we are no longer that country. We are so much more now.

My people are few. They resemble the scattering trees of a storm-swept plain...There was a time when our people covered the land as the waves of a wind-ruffled sea cover its shell-paved floor, but that time long since passed away with the greatness of tribes that are now but a mournful memory.

American culture enforces such rigid gender roles for male friendships that they are gay unless they materially resemble a beer commercial.

Even putting aside the culturally indoctrinated terror that someone in America will assume that two men engage in sodomy behind barely closed doors, there simply isn't an elegant way of asking someone of your gender to hang out for the first time.