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- The strength of the United States is not the gold at Fort Knox or the weapons of mass destruction that we have, but the sum total of the education and the character of our people.
- Claiborne Pell (1918 - )
- America - a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose.
- Herbert Hoover (1874 - 1964)
- What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them.
- Henry Ford II (1917 - 1987)
- America is the greatest, freest and most decent society in existence. It is an oasis of goodness in a desert of cynicism and barbarism. This country, once an experiment unique in the world, is now the last best hope for the world.
- Dinesh D'Souza
- I don't measure America by its achievement but by its potential.
- Shirley Chisholm (1924 - 2005)
- America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered.
- Louis D. Brandeis (1856 - 1941)
- America is the country where you buy a lifetime supply of aspirin for one dollar and use it up in two weeks.
- John Barrymore (1882 - 1942)
- I just want to say this. I want to say it gently but I want to say it firmly: There is a tendency for the world to say to America, "the big problems of the world are yours, you go and sort them out," and then to worry when America wants to sort them out.
- Tony Blair (1953 - )
- Unique among the nations, America recognized the source of our character as being godly and eternal, not being civic and temporal. And because we have understood that our source is eternal, America has been different. We have no king but Jesus.
- John Ashcroft (1942 - )
- America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own.
- John Quincy Adams (1767 - 1848)
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