“American capitalism finds its sharpest and most expressive reflection in the American cinema.”— Sergei Eisenstein, en.wikiquote.org
“This is not a dictatorship. This is America. Give me liberty, or give me meth.”— John Wells, Frank Gallagher, William H. Macy, imdb.com
“America has grown by expansion in a practical vacuum; the pioneers of the West had to overcome terrific natural obstacles, but negligible human resistance. The Russia of today had to conquer not only natural but human difficulties: she had to break up the rotten system of the Czars and to assimilate…”— Max Born, en.wikiquote.org
“The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.”— Phil Knight, inc.com
“In America, we know that faith and family, not government and bureaucracy, are the center of the American life.”— Donald Trump, cbsnews.com
“We must dissent from the indifference. We must dissent from the apathy. We must dissent from the fear, the hatred and the mistrust. We must dissent from a nation that has buried its head in the sand, waiting in vain for the needs of its poor, its elderly, and its sick to disappear and just blow away…”— Thurgood Marshall, thurgoodmarshall.com
“A child born to a Black mother in a state like Mississippi . . . has exactly the same rights as a white baby born to the wealthiest person in the United States. It’s not true, but I challenge anyone to say it is not a goal worth working for.”— Thurgood Marshall, thurgoodmarshall.com
“God forbid that the day should ever come when, in the American mind, the thought of man as a 'consumer' shall submerge the old American thought of man as a creature of God, endowed with 'unalienable rights'.”— Benjamin Harrison, en.wikiquote.org
“But we believed if we kept on working, if we kept on marching, if we kept on voting, if we kept on believing, we would make America beautiful for everybody.”— Al Sharpton, amazon.com
“Black power can be clearly defined for those who do not attach the fears of white America to their questions about it.”— Stokely Carmichael, nybooks.com
“This country's gonna be greater, more united, more powerful than it's ever been.”— Steve Bannon, cbsnews.com
“Economic nationalism is what this country was built on. The American system. Right? We go back to that. We look after our own. We look after our citizen, we look after our manufacturing base, and guess what? This country's gonna be greater, more united, more powerful than it's ever been.”— Steve Bannon, cbsnews.com
“Is America a weakling, to shrink from the work of the great world powers? No! The young giant of the West stands on a continent and clasps the crest of an ocean in either hand. Our nation, glorious in youth and strength, looks into the future with eager eyes and rejoices as a strong man to run a rac…”— Theodore Roosevelt, theodorerooseveltcenter.org
“We, here in America, hold in our hands the hope of the world, the fate of the coming years; and shame and disgrace will be ours if in our eyes the light of high resolve is dimmed, if we trail in the dust the golden hopes of men. If on this new continent we merely build another country of great but u…”— Theodore Roosevelt, theodorerooseveltcenter.org
“My mother was taken from my house by the communists in the middle of the night when I was ten years old. She was sent to a slave labor camp, where she labored for twelve years. Finally, they released her and she was on a boat to America to reunite with us...but she was served some bad fish, and she…”— Larry David, Poppie, Reni Santoni, imdb.com
“I'm going to save up every rupee. Someday I will get back to America, and when I do I will exact vengeance on this man. I cannot forget him. He haunts me. He is a very bad man. He is a very, very bad man.”— Peter Mehlman, Babu Bhatt, Brian George, imdb.com
“When the happy era shall arrive for the emancipation of nations, hastened on as it will be by the example of America, shall they not resort to the Declaration of our Independence as the charter of their rights, and will not its author be hailed as the benefactor of the redeemed?”— John Tyler, azquotes.com
“Eating junk food with your friends, watching TV while your brain turns to tapioca. This is what America's all about.”— Lizzie McGuire, imdb.com
“When jazz is played in another nation, it is called American. When it is played in another country, it sounds false. Jazz is the result of the energy stored up in America.”— George Gershwin, en.wikiquote.org